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Schocken Books (
Schocken Verlag) is a
publishingPublishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view...
company that was established in
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
with a publishing office in
PraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" , "city of a hundred spires", or Stověžatá Praha in Czech and "the golden city" or Zlaté město in Czech.Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the...
in 1931 by the Schocken Department Store owner
Salman SchockenSalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher and businessman.Salman Schocken was the son of Jewish shopkeeper in Posen....
. It published the writings of
Martin BuberMartin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship.Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish...
,
Franz RosenzweigFranz Rosenzweig was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher.-Early life:Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany to a minimally observant Jewish family...
,
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka was a major fiction writer of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia , Austria–Hungary...
and
S. Y. AgnonShmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon, ש"י עגנון In English, his works are published under the name S. Y...
, among others.
After being closed by the Germans in 1939, it moved to
PalestinePalestine is a conventional name used, among others, to describe a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.As a geographical term, Palestine can also refer to 'ancient Palestine,' an area...
under the name
Schocken Publishing. In 1945 it moved to
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.
In 1987 it joined
Random HouseRandom House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing...
Publishing where Schocken continues to publish Jewish literary works.
Franz Kafka
- The Trial
The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime never revealed either to him or the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was...
- The Castle
- Amerika
Amerika, also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, was the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1927...
- The Diaries 1910-1923
Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories...
- Letters to Felice
Letters to Felice is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer from 1912 to 1917. Schocken Books acquired these letters from Felice Bauer in 1955, in addition to roughly half of Kafka's letters to Grete Bloch, Bauer's friend. Additional letters to Bloch were acquired at a...
- Letters to Ottla
Letters to Ottla & the Family is a book collecting Franz Kafka's letters to his sister Ottla , as well as some letters to his parents Julie and Hermann Kafka. These letters were composed between 1909 and 1924; though Ottla died in the Holocaust, the letters were preserved by her husband and children...
- Letters to Milena
Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923.-Publication history:The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe an Milena, edited by Willy Haas, who decided to delete certain passages which he thought might hurt people...
- Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors
Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters from 1900 to 1924. The majority of the letters in the volume are addressed to Max Brod. Originally published in Germany in 1959 as Briefe 1902-1924, the collection was first published in English by Schocken...
- The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all Kafka's short stories. With the exception of Kafka's three novels , this collection includes all of Kafka's narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971...
- The Sons
The Sons is a collection of stories by Franz Kafka.In 1913 Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff requesting that three of his stories be placed in a single volume:...
- The Penal Colony
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime...
- The Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections is the first collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in English . It was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir...
- Dearest Father
Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod...
- Billingual Editions
- The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world; Elias Canetti described it as "one of the few great and perfect...
- Parables and Paradoxes
Parables and Paradoxes is a bilingual edition of selected writings by Franz Kafka edited by Nahum N. Glatzer...
- Letter to His Father
Letter to His Father is the name usually given to the letter Franz Kafka wrote his father Hermann in November 1919, indicting him for his emotionally abusive and hypocritical behavior towards him....
Gershom ScholemGershom Scholem , also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany...
- 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 ArendtHannah Arendt was an influential German-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers...
- The Promise of Politics
- The Jewish Writings
- Responsibility and Judgment
- Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism is a book by Hannah Arendt which classed Nazism and Stalinism as totalitarian movements...
Elie WieselEliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE is a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps...
- 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
The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, by Elie Wiesel. It tells the story of Azriel, the only surviving Jewish member of the small Hungarian town of Kolvillag after a pogrom perpetrated by neighboring Christians. Azriel carries the secret of Kollvilag's destruction within him,...
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