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| Parent company | Phillip Feldheim, Inc. |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1939 |
| Founder | Phillip Feldheim |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Spring Valley, New York |
| Key people | Yitzchak Feldheim, president |
| Nonfiction topics | Jewish law,Torah,Talmud, Jewish lifestyle,Shabbat andJewish holidays,Jewish history,biography,kosher cookbooks |
| Official website | www |
Feldheim Publishers (orFeldheim) is an AmericanOrthodoxJewish publisher ofTorah books and literature. Its extensive catalog of titles includes books on Jewish law, Torah,Talmud,[1] Jewish lifestyle,Shabbat andJewish holidays, Jewish history, biography, andkosher cookbooks.[2] It also publishes children's books. The company's headquarters is located in New York, with publishing and sales divisions inJerusalem. Its president is Yitzchak Feldheim.[3]
Feldheim Publishers was founded in 1939 by Philipp Feldheim, a Viennese Jew who escapedNazi Austria that year. He made his home in theWilliamsburg section of Brooklyn, NYC where he was a founder of theVienner Kehilla there. Later he moved to Washington Heights, New York near CongregationKhal Adath Jeshurun founded by Rabbi Dr.Joseph Breuer (1882–1980).[4] Feldheim opened a small bookshop on theLower East Side, and witnessing customer demand for Jewish literature, decided to go into Jewish publishing under the name Philipp Feldheim Inc.[5]
Feldheim Publishers was the first to produce Torah books with professionalgraphics.[6] It also pioneered the publication of biographies of modern-day Orthodox Jewish figures such as RabbiAryeh Levin (A Tzaddik in Our Time) and RabbiYaakov Yosef Herman (All For the Boss).
From the beginning, the company, which markets under the slogan “Torah Literature of Quality”, committed itself to publishing the classics of Torah literature. These included age-old classics such asDuties of the Heart (translation ofChovot ha-Levavot),The Path of the Just (translation ofMesillat Yesharim),The Way of God (translation ofDerech Hashem), andTheKuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith (by RabbiYehuda Halevi), along with modern works such asStrive for Truth (translation ofMichtav MiEliyahu by RabbiEliyahu Eliezer Dessler),Shemirath Shabbath KiHilchatho (by RabbiYehoshua Neuwirth), andBook of Our Heritage (translation ofSefer HaToda’ah by Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov, translated by RabbiNachman Bulman). The Feldheim library includes most of the works bySamson Raphael Hirsch, including his collected writings and commentaries on theChumash,siddur,Haggadah of Pesach, andTehillim.
Feldheim Publishers acted asTargum Press's distributor.[7][better source needed]
Feldheim established an Israeli division onBeit Hadfus Street in Jerusalem in 1960.[8]
In February 2012 Feldheim's Israeli division declared bankruptcy. The filing was not connected with Philipp Feldheim, Inc., the New York publishing division.[6]
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