Prospectus (from Stybel’s Publishing House)

Avraham Stybel

1918

Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel

Books in Print

  • By Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, novel, translated by Y. E. Triwosch [Trivosh]

  • By Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters, drama, translated by J. S. Ben-Avraham

  • By Maurice Maeterlinck, Monna Vanna, drama, translated by E. Shteynman [Eliezer Steinman]

  • By Maurice Maeterlinck, Sister Beatrice, drama, translated by E. Shteynman

Books Ready for Press

  • By A. S. Pushkin, Dramatic Poems, translated by Y. D. Shimonovitz [Shimoni]

  • By I. S. Turgenev, Rudin, story, translated by Y. Ḥazan

  • By I. S. Turgenev, Smoke, story, translated by Y. Ḥazan

  • By F. M. Dostoevsky, The Insulted and the Injured, translated by E. Shteynman

  • By Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, translated by Y. Ḥ. Taviov

  • By Knut Hamsun, Pan, translated by M. Ḥarizman

  • By Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat, translated by D. Shimonovitz

Books Being Translated

  • By W. Goethe, Faust, tragedy, translated by David Frishman

  • By Anatole France, Thaïs, story, translated by David Frishman

  • By Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, poetry, translated by David Frishman

  • By Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte, story, translated by E. Shteynman

  • By Heinrich Heine, Ideen: Das Buch Le Grand, translated by E. Shteynman

  • By Heinrich Heine, Confessions, translated by E. Shteynman

  • By Heinrich Heine, The Harz Journey, translated by D. Shimonovitz

  • By August Strindberg, The Defense of a Fool, translated by E. Shteynman

  • By Émile Zola, Germinal, story, translated by Y. Ḥ. Taviov

  • By Émile Zola, The Masterpiece, story, translated by M. Rabinson

  • By Henrik Ibsen, Brand, drama, translated by Jacob Fichman

  • By Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, drama, translated by D. Shimonovitz

  • By Henrik Ibsen, When We Dead Awaken, drama, translated by D. Shimonovitz

  • By Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks, translated by D. Shimonovitz

  • By Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, novel, translated by Y. E. Triwosch

  • By Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, novel, translated by Y. E. Triwosch

  • By Anacreon, Poems, translated by Saul Raniaḥ [Tshernikhovski]

  • By F. M. Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov, story, translated by Yaakov Lerner

  • By Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, story, translated by M. Ben-Eliezer

  • By Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary, story, translated by M. Ben-Eliezer

  • By Ivan Turgenev, First Love, story, translated by L. Ḥazan

  • By Anton Chekhov, Stories, translated by B. Grinblat

  • By Ármin Vámbéry, Autobiography, translated by M. L. Lazebnik

  • By Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz, translated by Yosef Likhtenboym

  • By Stanisław Przybyszewski, Book of Criticism, translated by Yosef Likhtenboym

  • By Stanisław Przybyszewski, Snow, drama, translated by Yosef Likhtenboym

  • By Georg Brandes, Ferdinand Lassalle, translated by D. A. Fridman

  • By Georg Brandes, Lord Beaconsfield, translated by D. A. Fridman

  • By Georg Brandes, William Shakespeare, translated by D. A. Fridman

Translated by
Avi
Kallenbach
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Credits

Avraham Stybel, Sifrut ha-‘olam [The Literature of the World] (Moscow: Ha-Tekufah, 1918), n.p.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Avraham Stybel

1885–1946

Born in Żarki, Russian Empire (today in Poland), Avraham Stybel (Shtibl) was brought up in a Hasidic environment but was drawn to maskilic Hebrew literature from an early age. Entering business, Stybel moved to Warsaw in 1904 and established himself as a successful trader of leather goods. An enthusiastic Hebraist, he made the acquaintance of several writers involved with the development of modern Hebrew literature, and became a primary benefactor of Warsaw’s Hebrew press, providing the seed funding for a number of literary periodicals. During World War I, Stybel moved to Moscow, where he made a fortune by supplying the Russian military with leather goods imported from the United States across the Pacific. In 1917, under the impress of the ideas of the Hebrew literary critic David Frishman, Stybel founded his own publishing house dedicated particularly to translating world literature into Hebrew so as to bring belated aesthetic maturity to Hebrew literature and render it intellectually capacious enough to retain ever more cosmopolitan readers who would otherwise be drawn to richer foreign cultures. Stybel appointed Frishman himself to lead the massive translation effort, which drew in (and provided support to) dozens of Hebrew writers, and to edit the publishing house’s new deluxe flagship journal Ha-Tekufah. Following the Bolshevik Revolution and Jewish Communist destruction of his publishing house and seizure of his printing facilities, Stybel moved his press headquarters to Warsaw and opened offices in New York City, Berlin, and Tel Aviv. In 1929, the Stybel publishing house moved headquarters to Tel Aviv, where it continued to operate for more than two decades. Over the course of his career, Stybel underwrote the publication of more than one thousand Hebrew books. He died in New York.

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