Elkhonen Saks' book The Sacred Land of Israel

The cover of my book The Sacred Land of Israel, which I published in 1998. In 1990 I organized a small publishing house, Aviv, in Tallinn whose basic purpose was the promotion of books by prominent Jewish authors in Estonian. My sister Ite introduced me to Estonian intellectuals who were interested in Jewish culture. The well-known novel The Slave by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Singer was the first book published by Aviv. It was printed with a circulation of 10,000 copies, and most of them were sold at once. Then we published a collection of selected stories by another famous writer, Shmuel Agnon. We also published a very beautiful book for children and an anthology of Jewish poetry entitled Dream in Jerusalem. The last book we published was a book by Sholem Aleichem. After my trip to Israel in 1997 I published a book called The Sacred Land of Israel in Estonian. It relates the history of this wonderful country, its past and its present. The book was published with a circulation of 1,500 copies and completely sold out. I think it has a lot of very good illustrations. They are photos taken by my son Touri. Another one of my books, entitled Who are the Jews and What is the Holocaust?, is now ready for publication. In this book I deal with very serious issues and try to do it objectively.