Parent company Random House Founder Salman Schocken Parent organization Random House | Publication types Books Founded 1931 Country of origin United States of America | |
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Official website schocken.knopfdoubleday.com Headquarters location New York City, New York, United States Profiles | ||
Schocken Books (Schocken Verlag) is a publishing company that was established in Berlin with a publishing office in Prague in 1931 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, it moved to Mandate Palestine under the name Schocken Publishing. In 1945 it moved to New York City.
In 1987 it joined Random House. Schocken continues to publish Jewish literary works.
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