Schocken Books
The library of the Schocken Verlag ( Schocken Library ) is a series of books cheaper books with Jewish authors or themes that appeared in Germany between November 1933 and 1939.
Edition history
The starting November 1933, published in a first series of five titles series of books was laid in the Schocken Verlag Berlin, which was founded by the Jewish businessman Salman Schocken. It includes 83 stations, spread over 92 numbers because of redefinitions and double numbering.
In the series, which should give a " building of Jewish Education" (Jewish Rundschau of 17 April 1937), only Jewish writers such as Franz Kafka, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, Gershom Scholem, Joseph Carlebach and Sholom Aleichem, or non-Jewish authors came with issues that were directly associated with Judaism, to speak. Of the latter, for example, published Ferdinand Gregorovius: The Ghetto and the Jews in Rome (Vol. 46), Annette von Droste- Hulshoff, The Jews Beech (Vol. 68) or Theodor Mommsen: Judaea and the Jews (Vol. 70).
As of volume 80, 1937 by the Ludwig Erich Loewenthal with illustrations by Ludwig Schwerin published unfinished novel Heinrich Heine, The Rabbi of Bacharach, the publisher's statement had to carry a " Jewish book publishing ." The last of the series with the ribbon of publication Berlin, which had to be discontinued in December 1938 with the decreed by the Nazi rulers closure of Schocken Publishing House, came in 1939 on the book market. After emigrating from Germany Schocken founded his publishing new in Jerusalem and New York; the Schocken Library, however, was not resumed.
Equipment
The titles were bound in boards always monochrome and based on double numbers in linen, provided with a title and spine label, indicating the row number and cost than paper bindings 1.25 and 2.50 in linen cord.
Relationship to the Island Library
The series had a practical example of the present on the German book market since 1912 Island Library, as the ( non-Jewish ) Publishing Director Lambert Schneider remarked to the writer SJ Agnon, and there were also many content interactions to this. Several authors were represented in two rows with identical titles, such as Annette von Droste- Hulshoff, The Jews Beech ( Schocken library 68, as IB 271), SJ Agnon: The Outcast ( Schocken library 78, as IB 823 ) or Gerhard Scholem: The Secrets of Creation ( Schocken library 40, as IB 949). Incidentally, the remaining copies of the latter Schocken title was also sold to non-Jewish readers in recent years Schocken Verlag in the Otto Wilhelm Barth -Verlag in Munich- Planegg due to the increasing difficulty in selling.
There were just slightly modified editions in two rows, as Yitzhak Leib Perez: Jewish Stories ( Schocken Library No. 66, IB 204/1 ) and Franz Kafka's small stories: Before the Law ( Schocken Library No. 19, as IB 1243, entitled A Country Doctor ). Kafka was allowed to be published by Schocken, although for the works of this author otherwise in Nazi Germany was a general publication ban.