Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Buchhandelsgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1994) 12-29
Keywords:
Philo Verlag, Berlin
;
Publishers and publishing
;
Printing
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Publishers and publishing
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Jüdischer Verlag (sponsored by the Zionist Organization) and the Philo-Verlag (sponsored by the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens). The Jüdischer Verlag was tolerated to some degree by the Nazi authorities because Zionism was in line with their policy of encouraging Jewish emigration. Nevertheless, its publications were often censored or prohibited. Like all Jewish publishing houses, it was permitted to publish only Jewish books for Jewish readers. At the end of 1938 it was ordered to liquidate itself. The Philo-Verlag, from its beginning in 1919, issued many publications against antisemitism. These were prohibited after 1933. The publishing house succeeded in being unprovocative and thus avoided censorship, while bolstering its Jewish readers' self-respect. It, too, was closed at the end of 1938. Also traces the fate of the publishing houses which were transferred abroad, and of members of the staff and some of the authors: emigration or deportation and death.
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