# Olomeinu

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'''''Olomeinu''''' (1945-2011; also Anglicized as ''Olameinu''<ref name=OloOlaVeryBest/>) is the title of a defunct monthly Jewish children's publication. Several reprint books were published.

==Overview==
Olomeinu refers to "''stories published monthly in the pages of Olomeinu/Our World magazine have been favorites of young readers for three generations''."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artscroll.com/Products/BO1H.html|title=Best Of Olomeinu - Series 2: Stories For All|date=June 18, 2003}}</ref> Publication ceased in 2011.<ref name=OlomeinuEnd.Yated2012>{{cite news|url=https://yated.com/the-demise-of-olomeinu|author=Rabbi Avrohom Birnbaum|date=December 5, 2012|newspaper=Yated_Ne'eman|title=The Demise of Olomeinu}}</ref> [Torah Umesorah](/source/Torah_Umesorah), which began ''Olomeinu'' in 1945, included "stories, holiday supplements, Hebrew pages, cartoon cartoon strips, puzzle pages and short biographies of Jewish greats."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collive.com/how-the-rebbe-saved-olomeinu|title=How the Rebbe Saved 'Olomeinu'|date=March 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name=OlameinuDovShurin>{{cite news|newspaper=The Jewish Press|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/parsha/boundless-love/2014/03/20|title=Boundless Love|author=Dov Shurin|quote=My father had for 60 years written a Hebrew page featuring biographies of great rabbis in the children's magazine Olomeinu.|date=March 20, 2014}}</ref>

When the publication had financial difficulties in 1960, ''[Chabad](/source/Chabad),'' which had competing youth publications, made a one-time large donation to encourage support;<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Jewish Press|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/time-to-give-chabad-its-due/2007/06/15/2|title=Time to give Chabad its due|author=Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson|date=June 15, 2007}}</ref> ''Olomeinu'' continued into the 2000s. The student readers included [Modern Orthodox](/source/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism)/Ivrit B'Ivrit<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Jewish Press|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/reaffirming-israels-centrality-to-modern-orthodoxy/2017/10/18|title=Reaffirming Israel's Centrality to Modern Orthodoxy|date=October 18, 2017}}</ref> and ''[Hareidi](/source/Haredi_Judaism)''.

==Reprintings==
[Artscroll](/source/Artscroll), not the original publisher, issued two series of volumes that reprinted content.<ref>the seventh book in the first series was published in 1986: {{cite book|isbn=978-0-8990-67629|title=The Best of Olomeinu, Book 7|last1=Scherman|first1=Nosson|year=1981|publisher=Mesorah Publications }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-1-5781-93981|title=The Best of Olomeinu, Book 1|year=2003|publisher=Mesorah Publications in conjunction with Torah Umesorah Publications }}</ref> The second series began "more than two decades" after the first, which sold "nearly 85,000 copies."<ref>{{cite book |title=Best of Olomeinu - Series 2|url=https://www.shopeichlers.com/products/best-of-olomeinu-series-2-stories-for-all-year-round/6286}}</ref> using the title ''Best of Olomeinu''.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-8990-67513
|title=Best Of Olomeinu - Series 1: Stories For All Year|author=Rabbi Yaakov Fruchter|year=1981|publisher=Mesorah Publications, Limited }}</ref> These were followed in 2008 by "The Very Best in Olomeinu: Back Pages" which were published by Mahrwood Press.<ref name=OloOlaVeryBest>{{cite book|isbn=978-1-5982-63008|author1=Yaakov Fruchter |author2=Aryeh Mahr|quote=1955-2008|title=The Very Best in Olomeinu: Back Pages|date=2008 |publisher=Mahrwood Press }}</ref> This (third) series had two volumes.<ref>the first focused on biographies, the second on short stories</ref>

[Nosson Scherman](/source/Nosson_Scherman), prior to his work at [Artscroll](/source/Artscroll), was the editor of Olomeinu, beginning in 1970, and editor/co-author of some ''Best of Olomeinu'' reprints.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Best of Olomeinu, Book 6
|author1=Yaakov Fruchter|author2=Nosson Scherman|author3=Yosef Dershowitz}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Best of Olomeinu: Book One |year=1981|quote=Book One by Nosson Scherman (Editor), Yosef Dershowitz (Illustrator), Yaakov Fruchter (Compiler}}</ref>

==Audience and content==
Yeshiva students were given subscription forms; circulation was throughout the English-speaking world: USA, Canada, England, and Australia, and was not limited to just major Jewish population centers.<ref name=OlomeinuEnd.Yated2012/> Different features were more appreciated by different ages and grades. ''Mendel the Mouse'' appealed more to one age, ''People, Places and Things'' to another{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}. From the 1960s through the 1990s many features were a constant source of learning about "[Baal Shem Tov](/source/Baal_Shem_Tov) ... the [Vilna Gaon](/source/Vilna_Gaon), the Chazon Ish" and included stories written by rabbis Brailofsky and Gevirtz.

Some items, such as history of [Sarah Schenirer](/source/Sarah_Schenirer) and the ''Bais Yaakov'' movement, were limited in scope and duration.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://thebaisyaakovproject.com/bais-yaakov-in-the-olomeinu-magazine
|title=Bais Yaakov in the Olomeinu Magazine}}</ref>

''Olomeinu'' also introduced readers to having and being a [pen pal](/source/pen_pal).

Among those who contributed to the founding of Olomeinu and its early day continuity were rabbis [Elias Schwartz](/source/Elias_Schwartz)<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Hamodia|author=Rafael Hoffman|url=https://hamodia.com/2016/11/23/rabbi-elias-schwartz-zl|title=Rabbi Elias Schwartz|date=November 23, 2016|accessdate=May 19, 2019|archive-date=July 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722063938/https://www.hamodia.com/2016/11/23/rabbi-elias-schwartz-zl|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [Nisson Wolpin](/source/Nisson_Wolpin). When the latter left in 1970 to become editor of ''[The Jewish Observer](/source/The_Jewish_Observer)'', [Nosson Scherman](/source/Nosson_Scherman), later to be known for his accomplishments at Artscroll, was Olomeinu's editor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dainybernstein.com/2020/03/07/sharing-spaces-shaping-identities-american-haredi-childrens-literature|title=Sharing Spaces, Shaping Identities: American Haredi Children's Literature|date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* [''V'Shee-non-tom'' (And thou shalt teach them)](/source/Elias_Schwartz),

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.chinuch.org/olomeinu_archive.html archive of back issues]

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Category:Defunct children's magazines published in the United States
Category:Defunct Jewish magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1945
Category:Magazines disestablished in 2008
Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States
Category:Jewish children's magazines

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