Schocken Books is a book publishingimprint of Penguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 by Salman Schocken as Schocken Verlag in Berlin, the company later moved to Palestine and then the United States, and was acquired by Random House in 1987.
After being shut down by the Germans in 1939, Schocken, who 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.
^Salman Schocken: Forefather of Haaretz Newspaper and a Modernist in Love With Tradition
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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.
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.
Schocken Publishing House Ltd. at Database – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945
March 20, 2023
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