Exporting Jewish Ideas from Germany (via Palestine) to America
- When he founded Schocken Books in 1945, department store magnate, philanthropist, and publisher Salman Schocken (1877–1959) called his new American publishing business an imitation of its German predecessor, which had functioned from 1931 until 1938. He intended it to replicate the success of the Berlin Schocken Verlag by spiritually fortifying a Jewish community uncertain in its identity. The new company reflected the transnational transfer of people, ideas, and texts between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the United States. Its success and near-failure raise questions about transnationalism and American Jewish culture: Can a culture be imposed on a population which has its own organs and agencies of cultural production? Had American Jewish culture developed organically to the specific place where several million Jews found themselves and according to uniquely American cultural patterns? The answers suggest that the concepts of transnationalism and cultural transfer complement each other as tools to analyze American Jewry in itsWhen he founded Schocken Books in 1945, department store magnate, philanthropist, and publisher Salman Schocken (1877–1959) called his new American publishing business an imitation of its German predecessor, which had functioned from 1931 until 1938. He intended it to replicate the success of the Berlin Schocken Verlag by spiritually fortifying a Jewish community uncertain in its identity. The new company reflected the transnational transfer of people, ideas, and texts between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the United States. Its success and near-failure raise questions about transnationalism and American Jewish culture: Can a culture be imposed on a population which has its own organs and agencies of cultural production? Had American Jewish culture developed organically to the specific place where several million Jews found themselves and according to uniquely American cultural patterns? The answers suggest that the concepts of transnationalism and cultural transfer complement each other as tools to analyze American Jewry in its American and Jewish contexts.…
Author details: | Markus KrahGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-533049 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-53304 |
ISBN: | 978-3-86956-520-0 |
ISSN: | 1614-6492 |
ISSN: | 1862-7684 |
Title of parent work (English): | PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany |
Title of parent work (German): | PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien |
Subtitle (English): | Salman Schocken and the Transnational Transfer of Texts, 1931–1950 |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/12/02 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Release date: | 2022/01/05 |
Tag: | 20. Jahrhundert; Buchgeschichte; Israel; Kulturtransfer; USA; Verlagsgeschichte; deutsch-jüdische Geschichte; jüdische Kulturgeschichte 20th century; German Jewish history; Israel; Jewish cultural history; United States; book history; cultural transfer; modern Jewish history; moderne jüdische Geschichte; publishing |
Issue: | 27 |
First page: | 101 |
Last Page: | 115 |
Source: | PaRDeS / Heft 27 (2021) / ISBN 978-3-86956-520-0, S. 101-115 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | BD 1680 |
Organizational units: | Extern / Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. |
Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Jüdische Studien und Religionswissenschaft | |
DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Open Access / Gold Open-Access | |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., ISSN 1862-7684 / PaRDeS (2021) 27 / Articles |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |