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Am Oved ("A Working People") is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i publishing
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 house. It was founded in 1942 by Berl Katznelson
Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the Declaration of Independence of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement....
, who was also its first Editor in Chief.






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Am Oved ("A Working People") is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i publishing
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 house. It was founded in 1942 by Berl Katznelson
Berl Katznelson

Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the Declaration of Independence of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement....
, who was also its first Editor in Chief. It was created as an organ of the Histadrut
Histadrut

The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
, Israel's federation of Labor, with a goal of publishing books that would "meet the spiritual needs of the working public." Its most well-known series is "Sifriyah La'am" (People's Library), a series of paperback
Paperback

Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its bookbinding. The book covers of such books are usually made of paper or cardboard, and are usually held together with adhesive rather than stitches or Staple s....
 fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, similar in many respects to Penguin
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
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