1942 founder rabbi yosef yitzchak schneersohn focus publishing location brooklyn new york united states website kehot.com kehot publication society is the publishing division of the chabad lubavitch movement . it was established in 1941 by the sixth lubavitcher rebbe rabbi yosef yitzchok schneersohn . in 1942 he appointed his son in law rabbi menachem m. schneerson as director and editor in chief . 1 only a handful of classic chabad texts were available for study in 1942 but under the leadership of rabbi schneerson kehot became the world s largest publisher of jewish literature with more than 100 000 000 volumes printed to date in hebrew yiddish english russian spanish french italian portuguese dutch german persian and arabic . 2 rabbi schneerson dedicated much time to his editorial responsibilities and in a 1946 letter noted the many obligations recently i have had to edit a booklet about purim and passover in french similar to the one about tishrei one about purim in english the first volume of our people in english the final proofreading of the hassidic discourse mayim rabim . in the middle of being proofread are the appendices to tzemach tzedek the booklet ha tzemach tzedek ve hahaskalah a collection of the rebbe rashab s talks . at the beginning of being proofread are kuntres eitz hachaim a booklet about the rebbe maharash the talks of the rebbe rayatz a book of hassidic discourses a book of questions and answers between a teacher and a child regarding jewish religion and practice in english a code of jewish law for youth in english etc. etc. 3 the name kehot is an acronym for karnei hod torah the rays of the torah s glory and the three hebrew letters feature in the publishing house s logo . the letters also refer to the hebrew year 5505 in which the founder of chabad rabbi schneur zalman of liadi was born . kehot has started to host an annual book a thon with the purpose of promoting jewish literacy as well as helping to build jewish libraries . 4 external links edit kehot publication society a selection of books published by kehot publication society online chabad.org kehot lubavitch sudamericana kehot publications in spanish www.kehot.com.ar some of the spanish books published by editorial kehot lubavitch sudamericana can be found online here es.chabad.org kehot publication society youtube kehot publication society google maps references edit http jewishreviewofbooks.com articles 1085 publishing godliness the lubavitcher rebbes other revolution the rebbe s army page 299 igrot kodesh vol . 2 page 90 book a thon this article about chabad hasidism is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kehot publication society & oldid 730509884 categories book publishing companies based in new yorkchabad organisationsjewish printing and publishingreligious organizations established in 1942yosef yitzchak schneersohnpublishing companies established in 19421942 establishments in the united stateschabad lubavitch hasidic dynasty chabad lubavitch hasidism stubsunited states publishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 19 july 2016 at 12 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view