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 Mandatory 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
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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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