The Polish Statistical Department has published here figures of book production in Poland during 1930.
The total umber of books published in Poland during the year was 12,274. Of these, 829 books were published in Yiddish, 192 in Hebrew, 31 in Yiddish and Hebrew and 88 in Yiddish and Polish.
The number of Jewish and Hebrew books published in Poland constitutes 9.3 per cent of the total number published. More than half the number of Yiddish books published were devoted to documents on social life, while over 50 per cent of those published in Hebrew were of a scientific nature.
One hundred and twenty-two periodicals were published during the year in Yiddish and 16 in Hebrew. These include 20 Yiddish dailies, 60 Yiddish weeklies, one Hebrew weekly, 24 Yiddish monthlies and 9 Hebrew monthlies.
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