Jewish Immigrant Booksellers from Germany and Central Europe in Palestine, 1933–1939

Zvi Barsky

doi:10.14263/23/2024/1433

Jewish Immigrant Booksellers from Germany and Central Europe in Palestine, 1933–1939

Authors

Zvi Barsky

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/1433

Keywords:

book history, Booksellers, Jewish booksellers, Fifth Aliyah, Jewish bookstores

Abstract

This essay is an abridged, translated version of Zvi Barsky's 2019 Hebrew book, Making a Mark: Booksellers in Palestine, 1870–1948. The study is based on the author's collection of rare booksellers’ labels, his thorough scan of period newspapers, and interviews with dozens of people.

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A book label of the Kedem bookstore in Tel Aviv, established there after partner Lipa Bronstein of the Berlin store (opened 1921) escaped the Nazis in 1938. The store address, at the corner of Yonah ha-Navi and Allenby streets, displays an abbreviation (str.) for the word Strasse (street, in German), creating Hebrew-German portmanteau words. See Zvi Barsky's article in this issue, "Jewish immigrant booksellers from Germany and Central Europe in Palestine, 1933–1939."

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Published

2024-12-29

How to Cite

Barsky, Zvi. 2024. “Jewish Immigrant Booksellers from Germany and Central Europe in Palestine, 1933–1939”. Judaica Librarianship 23 (December):124-74. https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/1433.