Menucha Publishers

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Menucha Publishers
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PredecessorTargum Press
Founded1984
FounderRabbi Moshe Dombey
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBrooklyn, New York
Key peopleHirsch Meir Traube (CEO)
Official websitemenuchapublishers.com

Menucha Publishers, formerly Targum Press, is an Orthodox Jewish English-language publishing company, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. It claims to be the third largest Judaica publisher after Artscroll and Feldheim. In addition to publishing books on Jewish law and philosophy, translations of classic texts, and fiction, it has played a vanguard role in popularizing Orthodox women's writing. Menucha plays a large role in children's and family reading, having created Menucha Classroom Solutions (MCS) in 2017, and the Jewish Book Box in 2019.[1] It also publishes a monthly magazine, Horizons: The Jewish Family Monthly.[2]

History[]

Targum Press was founded in 1984 by noted Jerusalem-based educator, the late Rabbi Moshe Dombey, at the time a lecturer at yeshiva Ohr Somayach and Neve Yerushalayim seminary. Its first publication was Halichos bas Yisroel: a Women's Guide to Jewish Observance.

After running the company for many years, Rabbi Dombey died in 2006. Aryeh (Eric) Mahr served as the company's CEO until his death in February 2010. Currently, Hirsch Meir Traube is the CEO of Menucha Publishers.[1]

Among Menucha's authors are Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, Dovid Lichtenstein, Meish Goldish, and Ruthie Pearlman. They also publish stories serialized in The Circle children's magazine, under the name Circle Publishing.

Companies[]

Menucha Classroom Solutions, abbreviated to MCS, was created by Menucha Publishers in 2017, quote, "to raise literary standards and enhance every ELA classroom by providing appropriate literature and educational material to classrooms around the globe." They pride themselves as being " the leading, frum classroom publisher." Following Jewish laws and sensitivities, MCS selects books excluding those that include violence, immodesty, abuse, or foul language. Secular books are rated on a scale of one to four, considerations being references to non-Jewish holidays, Christianity, internet and television, and language considered improper according to some standards.[3]

Another product of Menucha Publishers, the Jewish Book Box delivers a box of 2-5 to subscribers' doors monthly. The boxes include both secular and Jewish titles.[3]

References[]

  • "Orthodox Public Wants More Books!", Hamodia, March 19, 2008, pg. 28
  • The Jewish Tribune, January 14, 2006, pg. 14
  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Hirsch Meir Traube - CEO - Menucha Publishers Inc". linkedin.com. LinkedIn. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ^ Laura Yeager (July 28, 2010). "Hidden Gems: Out-of-the-Way Fiction Markets". Writers Weekly. −It is unclear if Horizons is still published.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "MCS - Menucha Classroom Solutions". menuchaclassrooms.com. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

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