For decades, Oskar Mendelsohn worked on his immense manuscript about the history of Jews in Norway. Fifty years after the first volume was published, “The History of the Jews in Norway” is still the only complete documentation of Jewish life in Norway: a vital work on a crucial part of Norwegian history, and a classic in modern Norwegian history writing. Mendelshons text has previously been published in two volumes. The preliminary project was to see if we managed to get all 4 million characters into one book with a volume less than 1000 pages. Two columns for one thousand pages can easily become static. Footnotes instead of endnotes and a pretty simple indent system created a more varied expression. Several typographic choices are inspired by the Torah, for instance the distance between the text columns. GT Super is used throughout. All text pages are printed on 90 gsm Coral Book Ivory. The images are printed on 115 gsm Garda Matt. The cover is foil blocked on Setalux.

• Year: 2019
• Client: Forlaget Press
• Editor: Håkon Harket
• Print: Printer Trento, Italy
• Repro: JK Morris Production, Värnamo, Sweden
• Format: 180 x 260 mm
• Paper: 90 gsm Coral Book Ivory and 115 gsm Garda Matt
• Binding: Hardcover bound with Setalux, foilblocked with white and gold
• Colors: 1+1 and 4+4
• Principal type: GT Super
• Pages: 960
• Language: Norwegian