Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir

Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir is one of Israel's largest book publishing companies.

History

The company's oldest imprint, Dvir, was founded in Odessa in 1919 by Hayim Nahman Bialik.^[1] After the Russian Revolution, Dvir moved to Berlin and in 1924, to Palestine. Machbarot Lesifrut, the company's imprint for world literature in translation, was established by Israel Zmora in 1939. Zmora-Bitan was established in 1973 by Ohad Zmora and Asher Bitan. In 1986 Zmora-Bitan acquired Dvir, together with its affiliates Karni and Megiddo. Kinneret publishing house was founded by Yoram and Talma Roz in 1978.

Kinneret was among the first houses to produce and market books with cassettes, board books and pop-up books for children.^[2]

Today

Kinneret-Zmora employs a staff of 70. It publishes around 300 new titles a year.

References

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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