When the news came, it was like learning of the death of an old, trusted friend.
Last week, it was announced that Turner Publishing Company would be acquiring Jewish Lights Publishing, as well as the other imprints associated with its parent company, LongHill Partners -- SkyLight Paths, Christian Journeys, and Gemstone Press (www.jewishlights.com, www.skylightpaths.com, www.christianjourneysbooks.com, www.gemstonepress.com).
(Full disclosure: almost all of this author’s books have been published by Jewish Lights).
Jewish Lights was not simply a Jewish publishing company. Such companies have come and gone. Some have disappeared because of the vicissitudes of Jewish history; gone are the Jewish publishing houses of Amsterdam, Livorno, Warsaw, and Vilna. Others disappeared because of the vagaries of the publishing industry itself -- Jason Aronson, the URJ Press, and the venerable Schocken house is no longer independent.
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