Steimatzky

Jul 2 2023

The Little Princess – Royal Virtue Signaling from Steimatzky Publishing

July 2, 2023 / Hebrew, Literature / 5 minutes of reading

Steimatzky (סְטִימָצְקִי in Hebrew) is the oldest and largest bookstore chain in Israel. The Chain was officially founded in 1925 by Tzvi Steimatzky and his half-brother Yechezkel Steimatzky five years after Tzvi Steimatzky had opened the first bookstore in Tel Aviv in 1920. Back then its primary focus was foreign language books as Hebrew wasn’t […]

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