June 3, 1888, was “a great day in Philadelphia Judaism,” when 100 of the leading Jewish intellectuals in America met in Philadelphia to found the Jewish Publication Society. Fast forward 122 years and JPS is still going strong!

The amazing thing about working for the Jewish Publication Society is learning about how much historical significance the organization has within American Jewish history. In response to a large wave of Jewish immigration in the United States, the society was founded to educate the American-born children of Jewish immigrants about their heritage and unite American Jews. Still to this day, JPS’s mission is to provide literary content to those interested in many aspects of Jewish life.

Every day when I enter the office, I walk past a bookshelf filled with JPS books dating back to the late 1800s and I’m always awestruck. I feel honored to work for an organization that has had important Jewish figures like Henrietta Szold and Chaim Potok serve as Editor-in-Chief and has published works from noted scholars and literary greats like Isaac Bashevis Singer, S.Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Saul Bellow, Martin Buber, Hillel Halkin, and Abraham Joshuah Heschel. Despite all these great factors, the Jewish Publication Society would never have been as successful throughout the years without the help of you, our readers. Thank you for your continued support of JPS and here’s to many more years of providing new and exciting Jewish content.

-Jill Finkelstein