Theodore Ernst Schocken

Theodore fought against national socialist Germany in the US Army. After the war, he worked for his father’s American publishing house. For some time, he was a member of the board of the German firm “Merkur AG”, into which the Schocken department stores had been transformed. After Salman’s death in 1959, Theodore and his brother-in-law, Herzl Rome, took over Schocken Books. Today, Schocken Books is a division of Random House Inc..

Theodore Schocken was a businessman and the publisher of Schocken Books Inc. New York from 1968-1975