Jewish publishing house

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The logo of the Jewish publishing house designed by EM Lilien
Berlin 1902: Founding members of the Jewish publishing house. V. l. To the right: (standing) Ephraim Moses Lilien , Chaim Weizmann , Davis Trietsch , (sitting) Berthold Feiwel and Martin Buber .
Berlin memorial plaque on the house, Vopeliuspfad 12, in Berlin-Zehlendorf

The Jüdische Verlag is a German publisher dedicated to promoting Jewish culture in the German language. It existed from 1902 to 1938 and was re-established in a different form in 1958 .

history

The Jewish publishing house was founded shortly before the fifth Zionist Congress , which took place in Basel from December 26th to 30th, 1901, by an initiative group to which Martin Buber , Chaim Weizmann , Ephraim Moses Lilien , Berthold Feiwel and Davis Trietsch belonged. The legal form of a GmbH was entered in the Berlin commercial register in October 1902 . The place of business was in Berlin, Budapester Strasse 11, and B. Feiwel managed the publishing house until 1907.

In 1920 Siegmund Kaznelson took over the management and Martin Buber took over the literary direction. During the Weimar Republic, this publishing direction shaped the publishing program at that time: The Jüdischer Verlag published works by Achad Haam , Chaim Nachman Bialik , Simon Dubnow , Theodor Herzl , Theodor Lessing , Max Nordau , Arthur Ruppin , the five-volume Jewish Lexicon and German translation of the Babylonian Talmud by Lazarus Goldschmidt .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the publishing house was only able to continue working with great disabilities until it was banned in 1938. With Kaznelson's emigration in 1937, however, the publishing house had largely dissolved.

In 1958 the publishing house in Berlin could be restituted . In 1978 it was taken over by the Athenäum Verlag and run as a legally dependent subsidiary. In 1990 Suhrkamp Verlag acquired 51% of the shares , the publishing program has been published since 1992 as "Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag". Today the publishing house is based as an imprint publisher at Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

literature

  • Anatol Schenker: The Jewish publishing house 1902-1938. Between departure, flowering and destruction . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3484651415 ( review )
  • Anatol Schenker: Jewish publishing house. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3: He-Lu. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02503-6 , pp. 260-263.

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Verlag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lionel Gossman: Art Nouveau in Firestone: The Jewish Illustrator EM Lilien (1874-1925). , last page
  2. ↑ Curt Vinz et al. Günter Olzog: Documentation German-language publishing house . 8th edition. Olzog, Munich / Vienna 1983, p. 201.
  3. ↑ Curt Vinz et al. Günter Olzog: Documentation German-language publishing house . 8th edition. Olzog, Munich / Vienna 1983, p. 201.