Schocken Books is a publishing

Publishing

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 company that was established in Berlin

Berlin

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 with a publishing office in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 in 1931 by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken

Salman Schocken

Salman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher and businessman.Salman Schocken was the son of Jewish shopkeeper in Posen....

. It published the writings of Martin Buber

Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....

, Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher.-Early life:Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany to a middle-class, minimally observant Jewish family...

, Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...

 and S. Y. Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel 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 . In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon.Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire...

, among others.

After being closed by the Germans in 1939, it moved to Mandate Palestine under the name Schocken Publishing. In 1945 it moved to New York City

New York City

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.

In 1987 it joined Random House

Random House

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 Publishing where Schocken continues to publish Jewish literary works.

Franz Kafka

• The Trial
  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 revealed neither to him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never...
  
  
• The Castle
• Amerika
  Amerika (Kafka novel)
  Amerika, also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, is the incomplete first novel of author Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1927...
  
  
• The Diaries 1910-1923
  Franz Kafka's Diaries
  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
  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
  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
  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 (Franz Kafka)
  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
  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
  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
  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
• Dearest Father
  Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings
  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
  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...
  
  
• Parables and Paradoxes
  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
  Letter to His Father is the name usually given to the letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father Hermann in November 1919, indicting him for his emotionally abusive and hypocritical behavior towards him....
  
  

Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem

Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Palestine, changed his name to Gershom Scholem , was a German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and 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 Arendt

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was a German American 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 on the fact...

• The Promise of Politics
• The Jewish Writings
• Responsibility and Judgment
• Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954
• The Origins of Totalitarianism
  The Origins of Totalitarianism
  The Origins of Totalitarianism is a book by Hannah Arendt which describes and analyzes the two major totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Nazism and Stalinism...
  
  

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...

• 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
  Twilight (Wiesel novel)
  Twilight, originally published in 1988 in French as Le crépuscule, au loin, is a novel by Elie Wiesel. Twilight is the fictional story of a Holocaust survivor named Raphael Lipkin who is now a psychologist living in America...
  
  
• The Gates of the Forest
  The Gates of the Forest
  - Preface :The preface of the book includes a story often referred to as "God made man because He loves stories". The story imagines that a series of historical Hasidic leaders each followed a tradition, incompletely transmitted from generation to generation, for accomplishing the rescue of his...
  
  
• The Town Beyond the Wall
• The Forgotten
• From the Kingdom of Memory
• The Oath
  The Oath
  The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, a novel 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...
  
  
• Rashi
  Rashi
  Shlomo Yitzhaki , or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi , was a medieval French rabbi famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh...
  
  

External links

• A Conversation about Schocken Books http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-2/karper.htm