Hebrew Publishing Company

[1][2] The company was founded in the early 1900s on the Lower East Side of New York, and later was situated at the former Bank of United States building for over forty years.

[3] Among their perennial publications were the prayer books edited and translated to English that the company commissioned from Paltiel (Philip) Brinbaum.

Lieber was a protege of Alfred Knopf, had been an executive at Random House, and was owner of textbook publisher Aldine Atherton.

[2] In its early years, the company geared its productions to newly arrived Orthodox Jewish immigrants who were fluent with Yiddish and Hebrew.

[18] In the book, the novel's protagonist, Mordechai Schuster, a newly arrived immigrant to the United States, works for his uncle at the Hebrew Publishing Company.