Book week & The International Book Fair 2017 Updated

By  Eliezer Brodt

Book week just began in Eretz Yisrael. As I have written the
past ten years, every year in Israel, around Shavous time, there is a period of
about ten days called Shavuah Hasefer – Book Week (for previous years
lists see  here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,  here and here). Many of the companies offer sales for the whole month. Shavuah
HaSefer is a sale which takes place all across the country in stores, malls
and special places rented out just for the sales. There are places where
strictly “frum” seforim are sold and other places have most of the secular
publishing houses.

Many publishing houses release new titles specifically at
this time, some books are released during the week (thus the Update). Not all
of the books listed below can be found at the various fairs as some companies
do not come to the fairs and only offer sales via the Web.

Some of the sales end this week others other expire only at
the end of the month.

Some of the frum companies began their sale last week [such
as Ahavat Sholom] others like Mechon Yerushlayim and Zichron Aron begin their
sales this coming Sunday [PDF of Catalogs available upon request.]

This year International Book week is taking place right next
to the Book fair in Jerusalem. For the Most part, the booths worth visiting are
from Urim, Gefen, Pomerantz (Kodesh books), and Maggid (they have booths at
both fairs). [See below for some recommendations].

In my lists, I sometimes include an older title, from
a previous year, if I just noticed the book. As I have written in the past, I
do not intend to include all the new books. Eventually some of these titles
will be the subject of their own reviews. I try to include titles of broad
interest. As this list shows although book publishing in book form has dropped
greatly worldwide, (and continues to drop) Academic books on Jewish related
topics are still coming out in full force.

As in previous years I am offering a service, for a small
fee to help one purchase these titles (or titles of previous years). For
more information about this email me at Eliezerbrodt-at-gmail.com. Part of
the proceeds will be going to support the efforts of the the Seforim Blog.

בן צבי

מאנגס

ביאליק

כרמל

מגיד-אופק

כנרת-דביר

מכון שכטר – JTS

ספריית הילל בן
חיים

מרכז זלמן שזר

מכללת הרצוג

ראובן מס

בר אילן

A Dictionary of
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period [מהדורה שלישית]

ידיעות ספרים

רסלינג

אוניברסיטת תל אביב:

האקדמיה ללשון העברית

בית אל

כתר

הוצאת אדרא

The following titles
were at the International Book Fair:

Gefen Books

Urim

Pomerantz
-Kodesh Books