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Deborah Romm and the Making of Jewish Culture in Print
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13 June 2027

The focus of this book is the multifaceted figure of Deborah Rom, the owner and the manager of the Widow and Brothers Rom Printing House in Vilnius. The book reveals the story of her life, which began in a small town in white Russia and ended in an economic empire built over four decades, punctuated by family struggles, business challenges, and impressive successes. Through business acumen, meticulous management, and diverse advertising and marketing methods, this printing house, the largest of its kind in the Jewish world, became the "house of creation for the soul of the nation." The thousands of titles it published, both in the field of religious and scholarly literature, such as the Pentateuch, Mishnah, books of Halacha and Kabbalah, the famous Vilna edition of the Babylonian Talmud, and the "gathering" project of Jewish canonical literature for its generations, as well as many hundreds of titles in philosophy, history, geography, fine literature, sciences, and more, became the ironclad assets of the Jewish culture and shaped the cultural world of Jews all over the world both at her time and many years later.
Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.