Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture

Please join us on Thursday, April 23 at 7PM (EST) for the 2020 Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture: “Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Jews and American Publishing” by Josh Lambert. This event will be broadcast live via Zoom and live streamed on our Facebook page. Space is limited and registration is required in order to submit questions. Link to register below.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Jews went from being almost completely excluded from all jobs in American publishing to being preeminent throughout the book business. Many of the most prestigious American publishing houses, such as Knopf, Simon & Schuster, and Random House, were founded by Jewish families and led by Jewish editors. How did the prominence of Jews in publishing influence the history of American literature, and how did it shape an American market for Jewish literature, including Yiddish literature in translation?

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