Schocken Books is a bookpublishingimprint ofPenguin Random House that specializes in Jewish literary works. Originally established in 1931 bySalman Schocken asSchocken Verlag inBerlin, the company later moved to Israel and then the United States, and was acquired byRandom House in 1987.

Schocken Books

Parent company	Random House
Founded	1931
Founder	Salman Schocken
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Distribution	Penguin Random House
Publication types	Books
Official website	knopfdoubleday.com/schocken-2/

Schocken Books was founded in 1931 bySchocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. Schocken has published the writings ofMartin Buber,Franz Rosenzweig,Franz Kafka andS. Y. Agnon, among others.^[1]

After being shut down by the Germans in 1939, Schocken, whoimmigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-languageSchocken Publishing House inMandatory Palestine. Schocken moved to the United States in 1940. In 1945 he founded the English-language Schocken Books inNew York City. In 1987 it was bought up by Random House. Schocken Books continues to publish Jewish literary works.

• Bücherei des Schocken Verlag
• Nahum Norbert Glatzer
• Haaretz
• Books in the United States
• Books in Germany

• Official website
• A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part I - Katharine McNamara talks with Altie Karper.
• A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part II - Katharine McNamara talks with Susan Ralston.
• A Conversation about Schocken Books - Part III - Katharine McNamara talks with Arthur Samuelson.
• Stephen M. Poppel (1973)."Salman Schocken and the Schocken Verlag: a Jewish publisher in Weimar and Nazi Germany".Harvard Library Bulletin.21.ISSN 0017-8136. 
• Schocken Publishing House Ltd. atDatabase – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945