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Schocken Books Books
Schocken may refer to: * Schocken Books, a German publishing company * Schocken Department Stores, a chain of German department stores People * Deganit Stern Schocken (born 1947), Israeli jewellery designer and art curator * Gershom Schocken (1912–1990), Israeli journalist and politician * Gideon Schocken (1919–1981), British-Israeli military officer * Salman Schocken (1877–1959), German entrepreneur * Amos Schocken (1944–), Israeli businessman {{Disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schocken Books
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. 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 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schocken Department Stores
Schocken Department Stores (Kaufhaus Schocken) was a chain of department stores in Germany before World War II. History The company was founded by Simon Schocken (1874–1929) and Salman Schocken (1877–1959). After Simon had married into the owner family of ''Warenhaus Ury Gebrüder'' in Leipzig, the two brothers enlarged the business to a chain by establishing a second department store in Zwickau. In 1930, the company (named ''I. Schocken Sons'' since 1907) had become the fourth largest department store company in Germany with 20 stores. After the death of Simon Schocken in a car crash in 1929, his brother was sole owner. The most famous stores are the ones in Nuremberg (Aufseßplatz) (built 1925/26, demolished), Stuttgart (→ Schocken Stuttgart, 1926–28, demolished 1960) and Chemnitz (1927–30) designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. All three can be seen as milestones in modern architecture. After the rise of Nazism, Salman Schocken was forced to sell his departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deganit Stern Schocken
Deganit Stern Schocken (; born 1947) is an Israeli jewellery designer and art curator. Deganit Stern Schocken was born in Amir, Israel, a kibbutz in northern Israel. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and studied four years at the Sir John Cass College of Art and in the Middlesex Polytechnic in London. She received the Alix de Rothschild Foundation Prize in 2001. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. She was part of an exhibition called "Women's Tales: Four Leading Israeli Jewelers", a leading international collaboration between The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin that traveled through the United States. Stern Schocken was a founder and chairman of the jewelry department at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan. She is head of MA department of Shen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershom Schocken
Gershom Gustav Schocken (; born Gustav Schocken; 29 September 1912 – 20 December 1990) was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of ''Haaretz'' for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959. Biography Gustav "Gershom" Schocken was born in Zwickau, Germany, to Zerline "Lilli" () and Salman Schocken, a retailer. He studied at the University of Heidelberg and the London School of Economics. While in Heidelberg, he befriended fellow student Walter Gross, whom he would later work with for decades at ''Haaretz''. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 one year before the rest of his family, and started working at Anglo-Palestine Bank, where he remained until 1936. Schocken was married to Shulamit Persitz, daughter of General Zionists MK Shoshana Persitz, and had three children, Amos (the current publisher of Haaretz), Hillel (an architect) and Racheli Edelman. He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gideon Schocken
Gideon Schocken (also spelled Shocken; ; December 28, 1919 – November 24, 1981) was a German-born Haganah fighter, major in the British Army during World War II, and aluf (major general) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He served as the head of the Manpower Directorate from February 1956 to April 1961. Biography Gideon Schocken was born to Zerline "Lilli" () and Salman Schocken, the co-founder of Schocken Books, an established publishing company in Germany. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1934, graduating from Gymnasia Rehavia the following year. In 1936, Schocken joined the Haganah, and in 1943 he passed the platoon commanders' course. Schocken studied at Hebrew University and Oxford University. During World War II, he volunteered for the British Army, later serving in the Jewish Brigade fighting in North Africa and Italy. In 1946, he was discharged from the British Army as a major. Following the war, he went to the United States to help his father move their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salman Schocken
Salman Schocken (; October 30, 1877August 6, 1959) or Shlomo Zalman Schocken () was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper ''Haaretz'' (which is still majority-owned by his descendants). Biography Germany Salman Schocken ("S" in Salman pronounced "Z") was born on October 30, 1877, in Margonin, Posen, German Empire (today Poland), the son of a Jewish shopkeeper. In 1901, he moved to Zwickau, a German town in southwest Saxony, to help manage a department store owned by his brother, Simon. Together they built up the business and established a chain of Kaufhaus Schocken stores throughout Germany. Schocken commissioned German Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn to design Modernist style buildings. He opened branches in Nuremberg (1926), Stuttgart (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
