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About
Us 
2013<o:p> </o:p>Books
in the Attic (Sifrey Aliyat Hagag in Hebrew) is a family-owned, small,
independent, quality publishing house. It was founded twenty years ago in
Tel-Aviv by Dr. Yehuda Melzer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University before launching his first publishing
firm (Adam Books) and becoming a full-time publisher. At Books in the Attic
Yehuda was later joined by his son, Ilai, who now runs the company, while
Yehuda serves as editor-in-chief. Books
in the Attic is fully independent and deliberately small but at the same time
enjoys an advantageous arrangement: we publish almost all our titles with
Yedioth Books, the book division of Yedioth Ahronoth, the biggest media
conglomerate in Israel. They handle the marketing, sales, storage, and
distribution of our books. This successful affiliation has allowed us to remain
an intimate operation and to dedicate our efforts exclusively to the creative
and editorial process.  Twenty
years ago the company burst onto the scene with a best-selling series of
medical guides for the general public (today this content is fully digitized in
our pioneering Hebrew medical website <a href="http://www.infomed.co.il/">www.infomed.co.il</a>).
We now are known for publishing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles,
most of which are translations (from English, French, Russian, Greek, Italian,
Spanish, as well as classical Greek and Latin). Here is a sample of our genres
and some prominent authors:Philosophy
– Plato, St. Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Kuhn, RawlsPopular
Science – Simon Singh, Marcus Du Sautoy, Steve Jones, Richard Dawkins, Dixit
and Nalebuff, James Watson, David Harel, John Gribbin, Jim Baggott, Brian Cox
and Jeff Forshaw, Oren Harman Fiction
– Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Stephen Zweig, Joseph Heller, Robert Graves, Barrico,
Leonardo Padura, Apostolos Doxiadis, Kostas Mourselas, J.K. RowlingContemporary
Novels – Boris Akunin's Fandorin Series, Stef Penny's The Tenderness of Wolves,
Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt, Emma Donoghue's Room, J.K. Rowling's
The Casual VacancyGeneral
Non-Fiction – Janet Malcolm, Daniel Mendelsohn, Misha Glenny, Raymond Aron,
Christopher Browning, Robert Paxton, Anthony Gottlieb, Nassim Taleb, William
Styron (Darkness Visible), Douglas Adams (Last Chance to See), Janet Browne,
Raja Shehade, Masha Gessen, Sylvia Nasar, Allen Frances Biographies
– of Marx (Wheen), Freud, Shakespeare (Greenblatt), Wittgenstein-Popper,
Pushkin (Serena Vitale), Muhammad Ali (Remnick) Einstein (Walter Isaacson)Children's
and YA Books – William Steig, Shel Silverstein, Ernst Gombrich's best-selling A
Little History of the World, the Geronimo Stilton Series, Night School and Harry
Potter.Poetry
– Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus), Mayakovski        Finally,
and very selectively, we do publish some Hebrew authors. Our most successful original
titles are the best-selling novels by award-winning author Haim Sabbato, Assaf
Gavron (The Hilltop) and the non-fiction titles by historian Aviad Kleinberg
and astrophysicist Hagai Netzer. One of our most recent Hebrew titles is a
critical essay by Shaul Arieli and Michael Sfard about Israel's wall in the
West Bank.<o:p> </o:p>Recently,
the ranks of our salaried employees (as opposed to our many wonderful freelancing
friends) have dramatically swollen – from two to three! – with the joining of
Hanan Elstein, an editor who specializes in German literature. Among the
authors he has acquired and edited are Kehlmann, Kevin Vennemann and Marcel Beyer.