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Schocken commissioned the architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) to design a functional, modern library in Jerusalem to house his collections. While his publishing house was liquidated in 1938/1939 and Schocken's department stores were sold to a German syndicate of banks for a price far below their actual value, Schocken managed to transfer his private collections to Jerusalem, as well as most of the publishing house's stocks. Salman Schocken was an extraordinary collector of books, manuscripts, and art, too. [Extracted from the article] |
