42:, in consultation with Buber, Moritz Spitzer, and Lambert Schneider, the series was "designed to select from the wellsprings of all Jewish literature texts of peculiar relevance to Jewish readers in Nazi Germany. In the spirit of the very first title--Isaiah's prophecies of comfort in the new translation by Buber and Rosenzweig--each selection vibrated with levels of meaning that comprised consolation and instruction." Spitzer, in his position as editor of the Verlag, invited
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Although the planned two volumes a month was realized in only one of the five full years of publication (1935; the first five volumes were published in
November and December 1933), "the production of a German library of 92 volumes of Jewish culture over a period of five years is testimony not only to
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What is most remarkable about this inspired series is its almost unbounded cultural range and the speed at which it was produced. The 83 titles convey a conception of
Judaism as a religious civilisation that spans the Bible, rabbinic literature, medieval and modern Hebrew poetry, philosophy and
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the urgency of the hour and the dedication of Moritz
Spitzer and Lambert Schneider, but also to the very existence of a living cultural legacy." All in all, the 83 titles represented over a third of the firm's production before it moved from Berlin to Palestine in 1939.
220:(Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1986) 68. "The format of the series," Schorsch adds," made it somewhat difficult to do more than allude to the accumulating expressions of Jewish music and art."
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mysticism, folklore and popular culture, letters and memoirs, modern belles lettres and poetry in German and
Yiddish, as well as works of Jewish history and historical sources.
31:("popular series of the Schocken library") with its distinct, uniform style is widely considered "one of the most important manifestations of the spiritual life of
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was printed in its place.) From that point on, the series carried the Nazi-imposed "Jüdischer
Buchverlag" (Jewish Publisher) on the title page of all volumes.
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to help with the series. Schneider, as co-owner, brought with him the backlist from his
Lambert Schneider Verlag, including
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Germany between 1933 and 1938" ("wichtigsten Erscheinungen des geistigen Lebens").
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Ismar
Schorsch, "German Judaism: From Confession to Culture" in Paucker et al. (ed.),
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Ismar Schorsch, "German Judaism: From Confession to Culture" in Paucker et al. (ed.),
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Die Juden Im Nationalsozialistischen Deutschland: The Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933-1943
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Ismar Schorsch, "German Judaism: From Confession to Culture" in Paucker et al. (ed.),
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made it impossible to continue. The last book in the series,
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179:The Patron. A Life of S. Schocken, 1877 - 1959
231:In der Sprache der Mörder: Ausstellungsbuch
50:, the Buber-Rosenzweig translation of the
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203:Gödde et al. (ed.): Walter Benjamin,
181:(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
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229:Wiechner et Wiesner (ed.),
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