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{{Short description|Publisher specialising in Jewish literary works}}
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{{Infobox publisher
| image = Schocken Books logo.svg
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| parent = [[Random House]]
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| country = [[United States]]
| headquarters = [[New York City]]
| distribution = [[Penguin Random House]]
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'''Schocken Books''' (''Schocken Verlag'') is a book [[publishing]] company[[Imprint that(trade wasname)|imprint]] established inof [[BerlinPenguin Random House]] withthat aspecializes publishingin officeJewish inliterary [[Prague]]works. Originally established in 1931 by the [[Salman Schocken Department Store]] owneras '''Schocken Verlag''' in [[Salman SchockenBerlin]]., the Itcompany publishedlater themoved writingsto ofPalestine [[Martinand Buber]],then [[Franzthe Rosenzweig]]United States, [[Franzand Kafka]]was andacquired by [[ShmuelRandom Yosef Agnon|S. Y. AgnonHouse]], amongin others1987.
 
==History==
After being closed by the Germans in 1939, it moved to [[British Mandate of Palestine|Mandate Palestine]] under the name ''Schocken Publishing''. In 1945 it moved to [[New York City]].
Schocken Books was founded in 1931 by [[Schocken Department Store]] owner Salman Schocken. Schocken has published the writings of [[Martin Buber]], [[Franz Rosenzweig]], [[Franz Kafka]] and [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon|S. Y. Agnon]], among others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/magazine/.premium-salman-schocken-forefather-of-haaretz-and-a-modernist-in-love-with-tradition-1.9330712|title=Salman Schocken: Forefather of Haaretz Newspaper and a Modernist in Love With Tradition - Haaretz Magazine - Haaretz.com}}</ref>
 
After being shut down by the Germans in 1939, Schocken, who [[aliyah|immigrated]] from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-language ''Schocken Publishing House'' in [[Mandatory Palestine]]. Schocken moved to the United States 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.
In 1987 it joined [[Random House]]. Schocken continues to publish Jewish literary works.
 
==Selected English publications in English==
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* ''[[The Great Wall of China (collection)|The Great Wall of China]]''
* ''[[Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings|Dearest Father]]''
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* ''[[The Metamorphosis]]''
* ''[[Parables and Paradoxes]]''
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* ''The Time of the Uprooted''
* ''Somewhere a Master''
* ''Wise Men and Their Tales''
* ''The Judges''
* ''Legends of Our Time''
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* ''[[The Gates of the Forest]]''
* ''The Town Beyond the Wall''
* ''[[The Forgotten (Wiesel novel)|The Forgotten]]''
* ''From the Kingdom of Memory''
* ''[[The Oath (Wiesel novel)|The Oath]]''
* ''[[Rashi]]''
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*[[Nahum Norbert Glatzer]]
*''[[Haaretz]]''
* [[Books in the United States]]
* [[Books in Germany]]
 
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-3/ralston.htm A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part II] - Katharine McNamara talks with Susan Ralston.
*[http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-1/schocken.htm A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part III] - Katharine McNamara talks with Arthur Samuelson.
* {{cite journal |title=Salman Schocken and the Schocken Verlag: a Jewish publisher in Weimar and Nazi Germany |author= Stephen M. Poppel |journal= Harvard Library Bulletin |issn=0017-8136 |volume=21 |url= http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/427334817?n=22&oldpds |year=1973
}} {{free access}}
*[https://www.lbi.org/german-exile-publishers/schocken-publishing-house/ Schocken Publishing House Ltd.] at [https://www.lbi.org/de/german-exile-publishers/ Database – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945]
 
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