Schocken Books

Schocken Books

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

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.

After being closed by the Germans in 1939, Salman Schocken, the owner, who had immigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-language Schocken Publishing House in Mandate 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

• 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

Billingual Editions

• The Metamorphosis
• Parables and Paradoxes
• Letter to His Father

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

See also

• Bücherei des Schocken Verlag
• Nahum Norbert Glatzer
• Haaretz
• Books in the United States
• Books in Germany

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.