Mary S. Rosenberg

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Mary S. Rosenberg (* as Marie Sara Rosenberg on September 7, 1900 in Fürth , † 1992 in New York ) was an American publicist and publisher .

She first worked in her father's bookstore, where she acquired her first knowledge and experience. In 1933 the city of Fürth canceled the leasing of the shop and the book warehouse was expropriated without compensation. When she opened her own bookstore, the publisher Ernst Reinhardt manipulated her into membership in the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

After fleeing Germany (via Switzerland and England) to America in 1939, she founded the Mary S. Rosenberg Publishers publishing house in New York, which is still in existence today and specialized in German-language literature. The publisher has a bookstore on Broadway . In 1942 she acquired Heinrich Simon's library from the estate of the former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Zeitung .

After the war she regularly attended the Frankfurt Book Fair well into old age. In 1966 she received the Federal Cross of Merit .

literature

  • Roland Jaeger; Victoria Dailey; Marion Philadelphia: New Weimar on the Pacific: the Pazifische Presse and German exile publishing in Los Angeles 1942-48 , Los Angeles, Calif. : Dailey, 2000.
  • Elfi Hartenstein , Jewish Women in Exile in New York , Edition Ebersbach, Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-931782-55-7 .
  • Edda Ziegler, Book Women - Women in the History of the German Book Trade , Wallstein 2014, pp. 124–125

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Mary S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Marie Sara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH 1992
Place of death New York City