Salman Schocken
Salman Schocken · Arts & Literature
Built the Kaufhaus Schocken department stores, founded Schocken Books in 1931 to publish Kafka, Buber and Agnon, and after being stripped of his citizenship bought Haaretz in Mandatory Palestine.
30 October 1877, Margonin, Posen, German Empire (now Poland) — 6 August 1959, Pontresina, Switzerland
Zwickau and Berlin, Germany; then Jerusalem and New York
Schocken Books1931Salman Schocken is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Built the Kaufhaus Schocken department stores, founded Schocken Books in 1931 to publish Kafka, Buber and Agnon, and after being stripped of his citizenship bought Haaretz in Mandatory Palestine.
Salman Schocken — Shlomo Zalman Schocken — was born in Margonin, in Prussian Posen, the son of a Jewish shopkeeper. With his brother Simon he built Kaufhaus Schocken into one of Germany's largest department store chains, and commissioned Erich Mendelsohn to design its buildings. In 1931 he founded Schocken Verlag in Berlin, which published Kafka, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and S. Y. Agnon — and which, after 1933, became one of the few places German Jews could still read themselves in print.
Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell the stores, he left for Mandatory Palestine in 1934 and bought Haaretz, still owned by his descendants. Schocken Books moved with him and then to New York.
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Built the Kaufhaus Schocken department stores, founded Schocken Books in 1931 to publish Kafka, Buber and Agnon, and after being stripped of his citizenship bought Haaretz in Mandatory Palestine.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Schocken
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