Chatto & Windus "Weir of Hermiston" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel "À la recherche du temps perdu" ("Remembrance of Things Past", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to
Bloch Publishing Company Mildred Grosberg Bellin, a Smith College graduate who had already written a successful, smaller menu planner/cookbook for Bloch called "Modern Jewish Meals". Bellin’s encyclopedic, 3,000-recipe cookbook was most recently revised and reissued in 1983 as "The Original Jewish Cookbook". Bloch Publishing Company Bloch Publishing Company is the oldest Jewish publishing company, and one of the oldest family businesses, in the United States. Edward H. Bloch (born 1829, Grafenried, Bohemia; died 1906, Cincinnati, Ohio) founded the company in Cincinnati in 1854 (another source says 1855). Edward’s sister, Theresa Bloch, had married Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1844, and Edward’s early activities