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Deborah Romm died, the firm also started to print secular periodicals and newspapers in Yiddish and Hebrew. This was not to the liking of the person who was the manager until then, Samuel Shraga Fiignzon (שפן סופר). Deborah Romm's descendants lost interest in managing
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Vilnius printers Menachem Romm and Dvoira Romm. Boruch Romm set up the first Jewish press in Lithuania in Grodno. From 1823 it operated in Vilnius. Between 1829 and 1833 it published 111 religious books. In the decade 1847-1857 the Romms published 460
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that has not always corresponded to the country's actual physical boundaries) had sent their manuscripts abroad, to
Amsterdam, Prague, Germany, Poland, and the Ukraine, for publication. The rivalry between Misnagdism and Hasidism led the former to begin publishing within Lithuania itself,
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Yiddish scholars and general readers in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, giving her an unusual stature for Litvak women of her time. She was often challenged, but her good business sense along with her scrupulous attention to quality and detail kept power over the firm in her hands.
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In 1835, located as they were in
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Jewish religious opinion and practice. The Romm factory burned down in 1840, but was soon rebuilt, and prospered through both its monopolistic privileges and the rapidly increasing Jewish population of the region.
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Under her direction, the firm produced a highly regarded new edition of the Talmud, completed in 1886, which is still widely used. The firm's last Talmud edition was printed in 1897, after which the rise of
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The Jewish encyclopedia 1925 "The establishment was inherited by his son
Menahem Man Romm, who in 1835 commenced, in partnership with Simhah Zimmel of Grodno, to publish a new edition of the Talmud."
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