TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krah, Markus
T1  - Exporting Jewish Ideas from Germany (via Palestine) to America
BT  - Salman Schocken and the Transnational Transfer of Texts, 1931–1950
JF  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien
N2  - 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 its American and Jewish contexts.
KW  - modern Jewish history
KW  - United States
KW  - German Jewish history
KW  - Israel
KW  - book history
KW  - publishing
KW  - Jewish cultural history
KW  - cultural transfer
KW  - 20th century
KW  - moderne jüdische Geschichte
KW  - USA
KW  - deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
KW  - Israel
KW  - Buchgeschichte
KW  - Verlagsgeschichte
KW  - jüdische Kulturgeschichte
KW  - Kulturtransfer
KW  - 20. Jahrhundert
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-533049
SN  - 978-3-86956-520-0
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 27
SP  - 101
EP  - 115
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -