Bracha Peli

Bracha Peli (1892-1986) was the owner of the Massada Publishing house in Israel. Massada or Massadah published the six volumes of The General Encyclopedia in Israel. She and her son then started the Encyclopaedia Hebraica.[Founder of the Hebrew Enterprise], Ubi Dromi, accessed October 2009 She starting the Annual Hebrew Book Week in 1926.
Life
Bronya Kutzenok was born in what is now Ukraine in a small village called Starovitzky.Bracha Peli, Asher Weill, Jewish Women's Archive. accessed October 2009 Her family were Hasidic Jews. She changed her surname when she married a man called Meir. They changed their surname again in Israel to Peli. In Ukraine she started a school that had 400 children in one year. Bronya and Meir left Ukraine in 1921 and went to Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine.left|thumb|The EncyclopediaIn Tel Aviv, Peli was the owner of the Massada Publishing house. She published the six volumes of The General Encyclopedia in Israel. She and her son then started the Encyclopaedia Hebraica. The new books were written in the Hebrew language. She starting the Annual Hebrew Book Week in 1926. The new encyclopedia was not finished until 1980.

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