Salman Schocken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Salman Schocken

Businessman and publisher

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1877

Place of Birth: Margonin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1959

Profession: businessperson, publisher

Nationality: Germany, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken (Hebrew: ???? ???? ?????) (October 30, 1877 – August 6, 1959) 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 (still majority-owned by his family).
In 1940, Schocken moved to the United States, where he founded Schocken Books.