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Editorial Services: Publication Credits

Categories: Bible • Kabbalah • Other Judaica

I. Bible

 

The Torah: A Women’s Commentary • Edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss, with 100 authors and 151 poets • URJ Press (2008) • Winner of the Everett Family Foundation 2008 Jewish Book of the Year Award • Designer, project manager, revising translator, copy editor, and proofreader • “I thank . . . David Stein . . . for his devotion to the text and to its interpreters” —Tamara Cohn Eskenazi.

 

The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation • Jewish Publication Society, 2006 • Designer, revising editor, copy editor, compositor, and proofreader.

 

The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Edition • URJ Press (2005) • General editor, designer, project manager, revising editor for Masoretic Hebrew text, revising translator, copy editor, and proofreader • “David Stein works magic.” —Hara Person, Editor-in-Chief.

 

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How to Read the Bible • by Marc Zvi Brettler • Jewish Publication Society, 2005 • Developmental editor and copy editor (assisted by David Mevorach Seidenberg) • “Together, they corrected many factual errors and helped me clarify what I was trying to say, making this book much more readable” —Marc Zvi Brettler.

 

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The JPS Bible Commentary: Ecclesiastes • Commentary by Michael V. Fox • Jewish Publication Society, 2004 • Copy editor • “Rabbi David Sulomm Stein’s interpretive sensitivity and keen sense of English style helped me to clarify and present my ideas” —Michael V. Fox.

 

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The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot • Commentary by Michael Fishbane • Jewish Publication Society, 2003 • Project editor and proofreader • “Thanks to David E. S. Stein … for preparing the “Overview of This Book” and the back matter, and for his keen editorial eye during proofreading. My successive interactions with him have only increased my admiration for his exacting skills; the Masoretic tradition is alive and well in his hands” —Michael Fishbane.

 

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Pathways Through the Bible: Classic Selections from the Tanakh, 3rd Edition • Edited by Mortimer J. Cohen • Jewish Publication Society, 2002 • Revising editor • “Rabbi Stein … has replaced the 1917 translation with the 1985 version and has made all the language in this new edition, both biblical and modern, gender sensitive and congenial to the contemporary ear” —Ellen Frankel.

 

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Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary • The Rabbinical Assembly / United Syna­gogue of Conservative Judaism, 2001 • Project manager.

 

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JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh • Jewish Publication Society, 1999 • Managing editor and co-designer • Author of the preface.

 

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The JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy • Commentary by Jeffrey H. Tigay • Jewish Publication Society, 1996 • Proofreader • “Skillful proofreading” —Jeffrey H. Tigay.

II. Kabbalah

 

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition • Translated and Annotated by Daniel C. Matt • Stanford University Press (Vol. I, 2004; Vol. II, 2004; Vol. III; 2006; Vol. IV, 2007; Vol. V, 2009) • Copy editor and indexer • “Rabbi David E. S. Stein’s expert copyediting polished this Book of Radiance” —Daniel C. Matt.

 

A River Flows from Eden: The Language of Mystical Experience in the Zohar • by Melila Hellner-Eshed • Stanford University Press (2009) • Copy editor and indexer • “I thank … David E. S. Stein for his outstanding editorial work” —Melila Hellner-Eshed.

 

As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist • by Eitan Fishbane • Stanford University Press (2009) • Indexer.

 

III. Other Judaica

 

Mishkan T’filah for Gatherings: A Reform Siddur • Adapted by Sue Ann Wasserman from the original edition of Elyse D. Frishman • CCAR Press, 2009 • Member of the adaptation team and proofreader.

 

Talmud for Everyday Living, Book 2: Insights into Buying and Selling • By Hillel Gamoran • UAHC Press, 2003 • Proofreader.

 

Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat and Festivals • By Reuven Hammer • The Rabbinical Assembly / United Syna­gogue of Conservative Judaism, 2003 • Proofreader.

 

The Jewish Family Fun Book: Holiday Projects, Everyday Activities, and Travel Ideas with Jewish Themes • By Danielle Dardashti and Roni Sarig • Jewish Lights Publishing, 2002 • Copy editor.

 

Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought • Edited by Arthur Waskow • 2 volumes • Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000 • Developmental editor.

 

Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology • Edited by Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Tamar S. Hess • The Defiant Muse Series • The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999 • Proofreader.

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