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==History== In 1975,<ref name="press">{{cite web |url=http://elucidation-not-translation.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-nosson-scherman.html |last=Resnick |first=Eliot |title=Our Goal is to Increase Torah Learning |work=[[The Jewish Press]] |date=6 June 2007 |access-date=23 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131201437/http://elucidation-not-translation.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-nosson-scherman.html |archive-date= 31 January 2011 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status=live}}</ref> Rabbi [[Meir Zlotowitz]], a graduate of [[Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem]], was director of a high-end graphics studio in New York.<ref name="Zeit">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/010713/artscroll.shtml |title=In 25 Years of Publishing, Artscroll captures Zeitgeist |last=Ephross |first=Peter |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=13 July 2001 |access-date=23 December 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609111257/http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/010713/artscroll.shtml |archive-date=9 June 2011 }}</ref> The firm, ArtScroll Studios, produced [[ketubah|ketubot]],<ref>[https://agudathisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/1972/12/JO1972-V8-N09.compressed.pdf#page=34 The Jewish Observer, December 1972, p. 34 full-page advertisement]</ref> brochures,<ref name="ny">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/books/10talm.html?pagewanted=print&position= |title=An English Talmud for Daily Readers and Debaters |last=Berger |first=Joseph |date=10 February 2005 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=23 December 2010}}</ref> invitations, and awards.<ref name="press" /> Rabbi [[Nosson Scherman]], then principal of Yeshiva Karlin Stolin [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Boro Park]],<ref name="press" /> was approached by Zlotowitz who had helped him write copy for brochures and journals in the past,<ref>{{Cite web |title=What's Bothering Artscroll?: Interview with Nosson Scherman |url=http://elucidation-not-translation.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-nosson-scherman.html |access-date=2023-02-13 |language=en}}</ref> and they collaborated on a few projects.<ref name="scherman">{{cite web |url=http://matzav.com/the-artscroll-revolution-5tjt-interviews-rabbi-nosson-scherman |title=The ArtScroll Revolution: 5TJT interviews Rabbi Nosson Scherman |last=Hoffman |first=Rabbi Yair |date=3 December 2009 |access-date=23 December 2010 |publisher=Five Towns Jewish Times}}</ref> In late 1975, Zlotowitz wrote an English translation and commentary on the [[Book of Esther]]<ref name=Z.obit /> in memory of a friend, and asked Scherman to write the introduction. The book sold out its first edition of 20,000 copies within two months.<ref name="women">{{cite web |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/feminists_object_artscroll_rolls |title=Feminists Object, But ArtScroll Rolls On |last=Nussbaum Cohen |first=Debra |date=11 October 2007 |work=[[The Jewish Week]] |access-date=23 December 2010 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165315/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/feminists_object_artscroll_rolls |url-status=dead }}</ref> With the encouragement of Rabbis [[Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman]], [[Mordechai Gifter]], [[Moses Feinstein]], [[Yaakov Kamenetsky]],<ref>Cf. his position that quality English-language sefarim will be used by Jews in the Messianic era as, like Yiddish in its time, "today English has become a language of Torah." (Rabbi Nosson Scherman in ''The Mandate to Communicate Torah in the Vernacular: Excerpts From a Presentation to an Eleventh Grade'' published in [https://agudathisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JO1998-V31-N04.pdf#page=27 The Jewish Observer, April 1998, p. 27]).</ref> and others,<ref name=ami>{{cite magazine|last=Gantz|first=Nesanel|date=15 September 2013|title=Lunch Break with Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz|magazine=[[Ami (magazine)|Ami]]|issue=136|page=90}}</ref> the two continued producing commentaries, beginning with a translation and commentary on the rest of the [[Five Megillot]] ([[Song of Songs]], [[Ecclesiastes]], [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]] and [[Book of Ruth|Ruth]]), and went on to publish translations and commentaries on the [[Torah]], [[Nevi'im|Prophets]], [[Talmud]], [[Passover Haggadah]], [[siddur]]s and [[machzor]]s. By 1990, ArtScroll had produced more than 700 books, including novels, history books, children's books and secular textbooks,<ref name="Zeit" /> and became the largest publisher of Jewish books in the United States.<ref name=ami/> After decades of being headquartered in New York, ArtScroll moved to New Jersey in 2020.<ref>Jewish Link (March 12, 2020), [https://jewishlink.news/community-news/bergen/36900-artscroll-moves-to-new-offices-in-rahway Artscroll Moves to New Offices in Rahway].</ref> Among other things, ArtScroll's headquarters in Rahway is notable for their in-house [[Chroma key|green screen]] studio used for the production of [https://inside.artscroll.com/ Inside ArtScroll] videos made available [[Internet|online]], as well as non-ArtScroll videos such as [[Mishpacha]] interviews and other "films that are broadcasted to the Torah community."<ref>Reisman, Leah. "The Art of Publishing". ''Mishpacha Junior'' (October 27, 2021): p. 10.</ref> === Associated entities === The '''Mesorah Heritage Foundation''' box printed on the inner page of ArtScroll publications lists Rabbi [[Dovid Feinstein|David Feinstein]]'s name first. '''Mesorah Publications''' is the "parent" company of ArtScroll; the name Mesorah was not part of ArtScroll's publications for the first book published, Megilas Esther (1976).<ref>inside cover: ArtScroll Studios, Ltd</ref>
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