Ludwig Mayer

Ludwig Mayer, an Israeli bookseller, was born in Prenzlau (1879) to a family of Jewish wool merchants. After apprenticing as a bookseller he moved to Ottoman Palestine in 1908 to open the region's first modern book-store in Jerusalem. His shop was a fixture in Palestine, serving an illustrious clientele that included Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and David Ben Gurion. He died in Jerusalem in 1978.

References

• The Jerusalem Report: "Pioneer Bookseller" 14 Nov. 2012: http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=291752
• The Jerusalem Post, "Appreciation: Herman Mayer, bookstore owner, hosted founding fathers" 8 June 2008: http://www.jpost.com/Features/Article.aspx?id=110243
• The Jerusalem Post, "Mayer's Bookstore: It's the Real Thing" 1 Nov. 2011: http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/InJerusalem/Article.aspx?id=9886
• Encounter, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Congress for Cultural Freedom , Encounter Limited, 1978 , vol. 51, p. 143
• Publishers weekly, vol. 124, 1933 Browker Co. p.ix / 1692
• ISRAEL Magazine, 1968: vol. 1, no 8-12, spotlight publications, pp. 85
• Stimmen aus Jerusalem, Zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur in Palaestina/Israel (hrg Herman Zabel) Deutsch-Israelische Bibliothek, Bd. 2 (LIT Verlag, Berlin 2006)