Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America
Moses Ezekiel
1913
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English still in operation. It is best known for its English translation of the Hebrew Bible (first edition completed in 1917). The seal designed by Moses Ezekiel for JPS features a lion lying down with a lamb, a smiling child with a snake wrapped around his arm, a view of Jerusalem, a star of David framing the Hebrew word for God, “Adonai,” and a motto: “The mission of Israel is peace.”
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Image courtesy of the Library of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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