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Am Oved
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli publishing house”. Today it says “israeli publishing house established in mandatory palestine in april 1942 by berl katznelson”.
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Am Oved ("A Working People") is an Israeli publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by Berl Katznelson , who was also its first Editor in Chief. It was created as an organ of the Histadrut , 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 fiction , similar in many respects to Penguin 's.1
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israeli publishing house
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israeli publishing house established in mandatory palestine in april 1942 by berl katznelson
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