Original wrappers, 8vo. Pages 20-34, [4], 35-49, [34 pages total]. 4 leaves of plates, black and white; photograph of Salman Schocken, 4 scans of documents: "Schocken Bucherei: Prospectus and Initial Catalogue Lisitings", "Pocket Calander for 5699 (1938/39) Front and Back Covers", Invitation to Readers to Add Their Names to the Mailing List", "Dust Jacket for Buber's Collection of Essays on Hasidism. " "Offprinted from Harvard Library Bulletin, volume XXI, number 1, January, 1973" (on cover) "In 1915, Schocken co-founded the Zionist journal Der Jude (with Martin Buber) . Schocken would support Buber financially, as well as other Jewish writers such as Gerschom Scholem and S. Y. Agnon. In 1930 he established the Schocken Institute for Research on Hebrew Poetry in Berlin, a research center intended to discover and publish manuscripts of medieval Jewish poetry. The inspiration for this project was his longstanding dream of finding a Jewish equivalent for the foundational literature of Germany, such as the German epic poem The Nibelungenlied. In 1931, he founded the publishing company Schocken Verlag, which printed books by German Jewish writers such as Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, making their work widely available; they also reprinted the Buber-Rosenzweig translation of the Bible. These initiatives earned him the nickname "the mystical merchant" from his friend Scholem. In 1933, the Nazis stripped Schocken of his German citizenship. They forced him to sell his German enterprises to Merkur AG, but he managed to recover some of his property after World War II. " (Wikipedia) SUBJECT(S) : Publishers and publishing -- Germany -- Berlin -- History. Jewish businesspeople -- Germany -- Biography. Biographies. 1918-1945. OCLC: 77906553, OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Grolier Club, Jewish Theog Seminary of Amer Libr, Yivo Inst For Jewish Res, Hebrew Union Col, and College of Charleston. ) Ex library stamp on cover, no other library marks, very light wear, Very Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-159-1-1)
