Schocken Verlag library

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The Schocken Verlag library (Schocken-Bücherei) is a series of inexpensive books with Jewish authors or topics that was published in Germany between November 1933 and 1939.

Edition history

Adolf Reifenberg : Monuments of the Jewish Antiquity (No. 75-76)

The book series, which appeared in a first series of five titles from November 1933, was published by Schocken Verlag Berlin , which was founded by the Jewish businessman Salman Schocken . It comprises 83 works, which are spread over 92 numbers due to new bookings and double numbering. The print run was around 3,000 to 5,000 copies in each case, and some of the 11 titles that were published in subsequent editions even reached 10,000 copies.

Only Jewish authors such as Franz Kafka , Martin Buber , Leo Baeck , Gershom Scholem , Joseph Carlebach or Scholem Alejchem , or non-Jewish authors , were included in the series that was supposed to convey a “building of Jewish education” ( Jüdische Rundschau of April 17, 1937) with topics that were directly related to Judaism to speak. From the latter z. B. Ferdinand Gregorovius : The Ghetto and the Jews in Rome (vol. 46), Annette von Droste-Hülshoff : Die Judenbuche (vol. 68) or Theodor Mommsen : Judaea and the Jews (vol. 70).

From volume 80, the fragment of Heinrich Heine 's novel , Der Rabbi von Bacherach , published in 1937 by Erich Ludwig Loewenthal with illustrations by Ludwig Schwerin, the publisher's name had to bear the addition “Jewish book publisher”. After the National Socialist rulers ordered the Schocken Verlag to close down in December 1938, the last few volumes in the series from Berlin came onto the book market in 1939. After emigrating from Germany, Schocken re-established his publishing house in Jerusalem and New York ; however, the Schocken library was not resumed.

Furnishing

The titles were always bound in single-colored cardboard and, in the case of double numbers, in linen, provided with a title and back label stating the row number, and cost 1.25 marks as cardboard volumes and 2.50 marks in linen .

Relationship with the island library

The series was based on the Insel-Bücherei , which has been on the German book market since 1912 , as the (non-Jewish) Schocken publisher Lambert Schneider remarked to the writer SJ Agnon , and there were also many interrelationships in terms of content. Several authors were represented in both series with identical titles, such as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche (Schocken-Bücherei 68, as IB 271 [1919]), SJ Agnon: The Abandoned (Schocken-Bücherei 78, as IB 823 [1964 ]) or Gerhard Scholem : The Secrets of Creation (Schocken-Bücherei 40, as IB 949 [1971]). The remaining edition of the last mentioned Schocken title was sold by Schocken to Otto Wilhelm Barth Verlag in Munich-Planegg due to the increasing difficulties in selling it to non-Jewish readers as well . There were also editions with slightly different content in both series, such as Jizchak Lejb Perez : Jüdische Geschichte (Schocken-Bücherei 66, IB 204/1 [1916]) and Franz Kafka's little stories: Before the Law (Schocken-Bücherei 19, as IB 1243 with the title A Country Doctor [2003]). Kafka was allowed to continue to be published by Schocken, although there was otherwise a general publication ban in Nazi Germany for the works of this author.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renate Evers: The "Schocken Library" in the estate collections of the Leo Baeck Institute New York . Dresden 2014, No. 14.
  2. ^ Karl-Hartmut Kull: The island library was the practical model for the library of the Schocken Verlag. In: Inselbücherei. Messages for friends. Number 25. Insel, Frankfurt and Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-458-17253-X . P. 48.
  3. ↑ Compare the remarks by Saverio Campanini in: Rachel Elior and Peter Schäfer (Eds.), Creation and Re-creation in Jewish Thouhgt. Festschrift in honor of Joseph Dan on the occasion of his seventieth birthday , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, p. 382 (Engl.) [1]

literature

  • Volker Dahm: The Jewish Book in the Third Reich. First part: The elimination of Jewish authors, publishers and booksellers. Second part: Salman Schocken and his publishing house. Frankfurt a. M., Booksellers Association 1979–1982; 2. revised Complete edition Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 340637641X .
  • Renate Evers: The “Schocken Library” in the estate collections of the Leo Baeck Institute New York . in: Medaon - magazine for Jewish life in research and education. published by HATiKVA - Education and Meeting Center for Jewish History and Culture Saxony eV, Dresden 2014, No. 14, ISSN  1866-069X Text online
  • Karl-Hartmut Kull: The Insel library was the practical model for the Schocken Verlag library. In: Inselbücherei. Messages for friends. Number 25. Insel, Frankfurt and Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-458-17253-X .
  • Schocken Verlag, Berlin. Jewish self-assertion in Germany 1931-1938. Volume of essays on the exhibition “The searching reader of our days” at the Luxembourg National Library in Berlin, Germany Akademie Verlag GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-05-002678-2 .
  • Matthias Hambrock: Schocken library. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 5: Pr-Sy. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02505-0 , pp. 376-381.