The Jewish Publication Society's plan called for a committee of seven editors who would be responsible for the entire translation. They included Solomon Schechter, Cyrus Adler and Joseph Jacobs, from the Society, and Kaufmann Kohler, David Philipson, and Samuel Schulman, from the Central Conference of American Rabbis. They were led by Editor-in-Chief Max Margolis. The editorial committee comprised an equal number of faculty from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, and Dropsie College for Hebrew in Philadelphia. The work was completed in November 1915 and published two years later.