[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements---Geography of Jewish publishing

[Victor Bers]

MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature

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 Oct. 14, 2008
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From: aledujovne at gmail.com
Date: Oct. 7, 2008
Subject:: Historical cartography, statistical info. on Yiddish and 
Hebrew Publishing

Dear Friends,

I am doing a research work for my Ph.D. dissertation about the printed 
word in the Argentinian Jewish Community.  So far, I have been able to 
draw a first image of the way Buenos Aires participated in a world net 
of Jewish book production and circulation, mainly in Yiddish.  The 
second step of my research is to analyze the strong translation activity 
carried out by local editors and intellectuals so as to build a Jewish 
culture in Spanish.  From the analysis of catalogues of different 
Yiddish libraries in Argentina and USA as well as some private 
collections here in Buenos Aires, I was able to observe the shifts in 
the publishing and circulation of Yiddish and Hebrew books along the 
XXth century.  This exploration allowed me to propose some hypothesis.  
Nevertheless I am very interested to have a more precise historical map 
of the Jewish publishing cities and houses along the XXth century.  
Therefore I am wondering if anyone has already done research on this 
topic or knows about some kind of historical cartography and statistical 
information of Yiddish and Hebrew book publishing  around the world 
during this period.

If anyone has any answer to these questions or any information to 
contribute, please contact me: aledujovne at gmail.com 
<mailto:aledujovne at gmail.com>

Thank you very much,
Alejandro Dujovne
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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