Schocken Books
Schocken Books is an offspring of the Schocken Verlag, a publishing company that was established in Berlin in 1931 with a second office in Prague by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y. Agnon, among others.
| Parent company | Random House |
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| Founded | 1931 |
| Founder | Salman Schocken |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | schocken |
After being closed by the Germans in 1939, Salman Schocken, who had emigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-language Schocken Publishing House in Mandate Palestine. Salman Schocken himself immigrated to the U.S. in 1940. In 1945 he founded the English-language Schocken Books in New York City. In 1987 it was bought up by Random House. Schocken Books continues to publish Jewish literary works.
Selected publications in English
Franz Kafka
Walter Benjamin
Gershom Scholem
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Hannah Arendt
Elie Wiesel
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See also
Bibliography
- Stephen M. Poppel (1973). "Salman Schocken and the Schocken Verlag: a Jewish publisher in Weimar and Nazi Germany". Harvard Library Bulletin. 21. ISSN 0017-8136.
External links
- Official website
- A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part I - Katharine McNamara talks with Altie Karper.
- A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part II - Katharine McNamara talks with Susan Ralston.
- A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part III - Katharine McNamara talks with Arthur Samuelson.
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