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JMB Journal 27: Salman Schocken

With Texts by Pulitzer Prize Winner Joshua Cohen

Salman Schocken’s (1877–1959) entrepreneurial activities were extremely significant: For one thing, for the development of the modern, welcoming department store for everyone; and for another, for spreading a new canon of Jewish culture and Jewish thought in Germany, Israel, and ultimately also in the United States. After having fled the Nazis, he founded new publishing companies in Palestine and the United States. Intellectual refugees from Europe found their spiritual home at Schocken Books in New York.

Sixty-five years after the death of the publisher, patron of the arts, zionist, art collector and businessman, the Jewish Museum Berlin is honoring Schocken’s work with the exhibition Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken and with this issue of the JMB Journal.

Read the texts and poems written exclusively for the exhibition by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen; further contributions by Emily Bilski, Caroline Jessen, Markus Krah, Martina Lüdicke und Monika Sommerer, Stefanie Mahrer, Kai Sina and Thomas Sparr. Including an interview with the JMB’s Director of Education and Digital Engagement Barbara Thiele.  

The image shows the cover of JMB Journal No. 27: Several buildings are depicted in a row as a black-and-white collage; at the top is the lettering “JMB Journal,” and at the bottom right is “2025, No. 27.”

JMB Journal 27: Salman Schocken

Read this and other issues of the JMB Journal online at issuu.com.

Details

  • JMB Journal 27
    88 pages including images 
    Berlin 2025 
    ISSN: 2195 - 7002
    English/German
  • Editors Jewish Museum Berlin
  • With texts and contributions by Joshua Cohen, Emily Bilski, Caroline Jessen, Markus Krah, Martina Lüdicke und Monika Sommerer, Stefanie Mahrer, Kai Sina and Thomas Sparr, including an interview with the JMB’s Director of Education and Digital Engagement Barbara Thiele
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Several objects, namely a porcelain box, a handbag, a plate, a gramophone needle box, a dress and a cream jar alternate on an orange and light blue background, with the Schocken logo in the shape of an S above.

Exhibition Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken: Features & Programs

Exhibition Webpage
Inventories (20 May to 12 Oct 2025) – exhibition website with some objects from the exhibition and all audio pieces written and narrated by Joshua Cohen
Publications
Current page: JMB Journal 27: Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken: An Issue on the Publisher, Patron of the Arts, Zionist, Art Collector and Businessman, Oct 2025
Digital Content
A short interview with Joshua Cohen: Watch the video on our YouTube channel!
Joshua Cohen in Conversation on the Exhibition: Video recording from 20 May 2025
Jewish department stores and their owners on Jewish Places: Visualization on an interactive map
See also
Joshua Cohen, writer
Salman Schocken, publisher and businessman

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