Talk:Jewish Publication Society

Inclusion of initials in title
All of the references I see to the organization refer to it simply as the "Jewish Publication Society", or abbreviate it as JPS. There seems to be no reason to title the article "Jewish Publication Society (JPS)" with the initials included. Can anyone explain why this should not be moved to lop off the initials in parentheses? Alansohn (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The only reason I can think of is that the editor who moved it is a newbie. It shouldn't have the initials. — Malik Shabazz 18:25, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

K'tonton series
The Library of Congress online catalog lists seven K'tonton titles written by Sadie Rose Wallerstein (select "LC Online Catalog"). JPS is the listed publisher from 1976. Wallerstein was 41 to 101 years old when these first editions were published, except she died at 99. --P64 (talk) 20:08, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * (introduced somewhere in 1930)
 * The adventures of K’tonton; a little Jewish Tom Thumb, 1935, 100pp
 * K’tonton in Israel, 1964, 176pp
 * K’tonton on an island in the sea : a hitherto unreported episode in the life of the Jewish thumbling, K’tonton ben Baruch Reuben / with an introd. and notes by his biographer Sadie Rose Weilerstein, 1976, 95pp
 * The best of Kʹtonton : the greatest adventures in the life of the Jewish thumbling, Kʹtonton ben Baruch Reuben, collected for the 50th Anniversary of his first appearence in print, 1980, 94pp
 * K’tonton in the circus : a Hanukkah adventure, 1981, 85pp
 * K’tonton’s Sukkot adventure, 1993, unpaged
 * K’tonton’s Yom Kippur kitten, 1995, unpaged

Changing "Recent publications" to "Notable publications"
"Recent publications" is problematic for several reasons: it is vague to begin with (how long ago is "recent"?), it quickly dates itself, the dates need to be given inline (a troublesome and pointless effort), the order of the list would need to be chronological to make any kind of sense (I don't even know if it is at the moment) and our readers probably don't care anyway. I understand the JPS's website listing recent publications, but Wikipedia would be much better listing publications that have their own Wikipedia articles (or are likely to have them in the future).

Also, the Jewish Study Bible and Outside the Bible are both almost certainly much more notable and more recent that several of the items of the list presently.

I am leaving the other items on the list pending verification, but I cannot vouch for their "notability" one way or the other.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 00:52, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

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