May 11th, 2025, 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
A recording of this class is at https://youtu.be/rgW855SijLI.
Jewish Publication Society (JPS) Editor-in-Chief Malka Simkovich and Jewish Study Center President Amy Schwartz discuss the state of Jewish publishing, the current challenges that Jewish writers are facing, and the unique opportunities of the current moment.
JPS is best known for publishing Jewish religious text together with English translations. But it also publishes books on other topics of Jewish interest, including the 3-volume Jewish Catalog in the 1970’s.
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society and Visiting Professor at Yeshiva University’s Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies. Her first book, The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria, was published in 2016, and her second book, Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism, was published with JPS in 2018 and received the 2019 AJL Judaica Reference Honor Award. Her third book, Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity, was published in June 2024.
She is also the author of over a hundred published articles, including pieces that have been published in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Jewish Review of Books, Tablet, and The Christian Century. A Leon Charney Fellow at the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, a Sacks Scholar for the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Foundation, and a Kogod Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Simkovich served as the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies at Catholic Theological Union from 2014–2024, and speaks regularly to audiences across North America and beyond on topics related to the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history, and contemporary Jewish-Christian relations.
Jewish Study Center President Amy E. Schwartz is the opinion and book editor of Moment Magazine. She is a former columnist and editorial writer at the Washington Post. In 2020 she published Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life. And of course she has taught classes at the Jewish Study Center, including a multi-year series on the Psalms.
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