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". She starting the Annual "Hebrew Book Week" in 1926.
Bronya Kutzenok was born in what is now the Ukraine in a small village called Starovitzky. 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 the Ukraine she started a school that had 400 children in one year. Bronya and Meir left the Ukraine in 1921 and went to Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine.
In 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.