Bibliyoṭeḳn: Yiddish Popular Book Series, 1890–1939

Nathan Cohen

doi:10.14263/23/2024/733

Bibliyoṭeḳn: Yiddish Popular Book Series, 1890–1939

Authors

Nathan Cohen Bar Ilan University (Israel)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/733

Keywords:

Yiddish, publishing, Yiddish books

Abstract

The article provides a general overview of a new phenomenon in the Yiddish book market at the end of the 19^th century and developed in various directions until the outbreak of World War II. It was numerous initiatives and motivations to publish popular, yet instructive, Yiddish book series, better known as Bibliotekn (libraries) devoted to belle lettres, sciences, political ideologies, and literature for children. From the geographical point of view the article will concentrate in Eastern Europe (i.e. the Pale of Settlement, Congress Poland and the second Polish Republic). The overview will be mainly thematic with a general chronological order.

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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

Cohen, Nathan. 2024. “Bibliyoṭeḳn: Yiddish Popular Book Series, 1890–1939”. Judaica Librarianship 23 (December):58-83. https://doi.org/10.14263/23/2024/733.