Gliksman David (31.07.1884, Riga) — book publisher. Owner of a publishing firm in Berlin called “Russian Publishing House” and the bookshop “Gliksman Partnership.” The publishing house was represented by the bookshop “Nasha Rech” in Prague and Kaunas. Published educational materials in many branches of knowledge — linguistics, jurisprudence, mathematics, medicine, statistics and others. Also offered readers a wide range of world literature for all ages. Shortly after the founding of the University of Latvia in Riga in 1920, opened a bookshop on Aspazijas Boulevard, No. 4 (the Rome Hotel building), and launched an active advertising campaign in the newspaper “Segodnya.” According to the suggestion of Yu. Abyzov, in 1929 opened the “Academija” publishing house in Riga. Holding Latvian citizenship and residing in Riga, frequently travelled to the university centres of Tartu and Kaunas until the mid-1932.

Lit.: Zalevsky V., Gollerbach E. The Distribution of Russian Print in the World. 1918–1939: A Reference Guide. St Petersburg: National Library of Russia, 1998; Abyzov Yu.I. This was published in Riga. 1918–1944: A Historical-Bibliographical Essay. Moscow: Russky Put, 2006.

S. Kovalchuk.