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Schocken Books
Parent company	Random House
Founded	1931
Founder	Salman Schocken
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Distribution	Penguin Random House
Publication types	Books
Official website	schocken.knopfdoubleday.com

Schocken Books is a book publishing imprint 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 Israel and then the United States, and was acquired by Random House in 1987.

History

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 S. Y. Agnon, among others.^[1]

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.

Selected English publications

Franz Kafka

The Trial
The Castle
Amerika
The Diaries 1910-1923
Letters to Felice
Letters to Ottla
Letters to Milena
Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors
The Complete Stories
The Sons
The Penal Colony
The Great Wall of China
Dearest Father

Bilingual Editions

Walter Benjamin

Illuminations
Reflections

Gershom Scholem

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
The Messianic Idea in Judaism
On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead
On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
Zohar: The Book of Splendor

Hannah Arendt

The Promise of Politics
The Jewish Writings
Responsibility and Judgment
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Elie Wiesel

The Time of the Uprooted
Somewhere a Master
Wise Men and Their Tales
The Judges
Legends of Our Time
After the Darkness
And the Sea Is Never Full
The Testament
The Fifth Son
A Beggar in Jerusalem
All Rivers Run to the Sea
The Trial of God
Twilight
The Gates of the Forest
The Town Beyond the Wall
The Forgotten
From the Kingdom of Memory
The Oath
Rashi

References

^ "Salman Schocken: Forefather of Haaretz Newspaper and a Modernist in Love With Tradition - Haaretz Magazine - Haaretz.com".

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.
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

[1] "Salman Schocken: Forefather of Haaretz Newspaper and a Modernist in Love With Tradition - Haaretz Magazine - Haaretz.com".

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