Schocken, Salman

(1877-1959) businessman, publisher and patron of the arts. Starting off with a department store in Zwickau, the family built up an empire with 14 stores until the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1931 he set up the Schocken Verlag publishing house in Berlin. He moved to Palestine in 1934 and then on to the USA where he lived in exile from 1940 onwards.