Salman Schocken

✶October 29, 1877

†August 6, 1959

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About their life

Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz.

Businessman, publisher art collector, persecuted by Nazis because Jewish (1877-1959)

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