Am Oved

Am Oved ("A Working People") is an Israeli publishing house. It is one of the main publishing house in Israel with around 100 new titles annually, in addition to 250 reprints of classics of Hebrew literature and world literature in translation.^[1] Its best known series is "Sifriyah La'am" (People's Library), a series of paperback fiction, similar in many respects to Penguin.

History

Am Oved was founded in 1942 by Berl Katznelson, who was its first Editor in Chief. It was created as an organ of the Histadrut, Israel's federation of Labor, with a goal of publishing books that would "meet the spiritual needs of the working public." Today Am Oved seeks "to enrich the cultural experience of readers of Hebrew from all walks of life with high-quality, widely-appealing books in a great variety of genres".^[1]

References

1 2 Am Oved website

Literature in Israel / Israeli literature

Publishers	Am Oved Carta Hakibbutz Hameuchad Keter Mapa Massada Books Matar Ministry of Defense Modan Books Mosad Bialik Schocken Books Yad Ben Zvi Yedioth Books Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir

Hebrew literature	Authors Poets Playwrights

Literary awards	Bernstein Prize Brenner Prize Bialik Prize Geffen Award Israel Prize Jerusalem Prize Lamdan Prize Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers Sapir Prize Tchernichovsky Prize Yitzhak Sadeh Prize Ze'ev Prize

Organizations	Hebrew Writers Association in Israel

Bookstore chains	Steimatzky Tzomet Sfarim Yudan

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Am Oved

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