List of Famous people with last name Schocken

Gershom Schocken

First Name Gershom

Born on September 29, 1912

Died on December 20, 1990 (aged 78)

Born in Germany, Saxony

Gershom Gustav Schocken was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.

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Salman Schocken

First Name Salman

Last Name Schocken

Born on October 29, 1877

Died on August 6, 1959 (aged 81)

Born in Poland, Greater Poland Voivodeship

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. In 1940, Schocken moved to the United States, where he founded Schocken Books.

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