Schletter'sche bookstore
The Schletter'sche Buchhandlung was a publishing bookstore for Jewish literature based in Breslau from 1833 to 1932.
history
Zygmunt (Sigismund) Schletter founded in 1833 in Breslau (now Polish Wroclaw ), and coming from Poland, which Schletter'sche Antiquarian and Verlagsbuchhandlung Sigismund Schletter. During the 1830s, Ruth Kurtze and Sigismund Schletter took care of the assortment in German and Polish, which consisted almost exclusively of Jewish literature.
In 1855 Hugo Skutsch († 1873) took over the Schletter'sche Antiquariat from his friend and called it from then on "Schletter'sche Buchhandlung". Under this name, the Schletter'sche Buchhandlung under Hugo Skutsch as the owner (1855–1873) and Sigismund Schletter as a minority shareholder achieved international renown as the publisher of mainly academic Jewish literature, including Yiddish . Eugen Franck bought the business from the widow Hugo Skutsch. His partner Heinrich Lesser separated from him in 1889 and continued to run the bookshop under his own name.
After further changes of ownership, the bookstore and publishing house became the property of Alfred Kurtze († 1932).
literature
- Maria Rotterowa: The Sigismund Schletter publishing house in Wrocław 1833–1855 . (= Volume 3, Śląskie prace bibliograficzne i bibliotekoznawcze), Państwowe Wydawn, Naukowe 1956, ISSN 0583-5291