The Sifriya La'am prides itself on its ambitious translation program. Under this imprint, Am Oved is home for both veteran and younger Israeli authors, many of whom are real household names: Eli Amir, Hayim Be'er, Ida Fink, Yael Hedaya, Shiffra Horn, Yehoshua Kenaz, Ronnit Matalon, Aharon Megged, Sammy Michael, Dorrit Rabinian, Meir Shalev, Anton Shammas, Moshe Shamir, Sarah Shiloh, Yuval Shimony and numerous others. It has so far published some 800 titles, and is still going strong at the rate of 16 new titles annually.
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The core of Am Oved's activity is the Sifriyah La'am, widely considered as Israel's leading series of literary fiction. Currently the company publishes close to 100 new titles annually, in addition to about 250 reprints from its rich backlist of perennial classics, both Hebrew and translated. more than 5000 titles published over the years have sold millions of copies and adorn the bookshelves in almost every Israeli home. Today Am Oved embraces a broader definition of its aims, seeking to enrich the cultural experience of readers of Hebrew from all walks of life with high-quality, widely-appealing books in a great variety of genres.
It was founded in 1942 by Berl Katzenelson (who became its first Editor in Chief) as an organ of the Histadrut (the Labor Federation), and originally defined its aim as "to meet the spiritual needs of the working public." By the following decade the familiar format of the Sifriyah La'am (People's Library), Am Oved's showcase fiction series, became a trademark of Hebrew letters comparable to Penguin's highly identifiable and prestigious orange paperbacks. Am Oved (the words mean "Working Nation") has been one of Israel's leading publishing houses for over six decades.
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