Schocken- a self-made man

Noemi Schory

Salman Schocken was the King of department stores in Germany. Before WWII, he owned 22 department stores with 6,000 employees. He possessed a unique collection of 60,000 rare books in German and Hebrew and founded a modern, Jewish publishing house. He was the lifelong supporter of Shmuel Yosef Agnon and he owned the Haaretz newspaper which still survives on the border of consensus. He supported secular, Jewish culture and identified with humanist, liberal Judaism, a relic of 19th century Europe. Today, in an age of unscrupulous market economy and militant Judaism, Salman Schocken’s ways point to an alternative, perhaps not entirely lost.

Directors: Noemi Schory

Script: Noemi Schory

Research: Noemi Schory, Amikam Goldman,

Producers: Liran Atzmor, Gerd Haag, Amikam Goldman, Katharina Weser

Production company: Atzmor Productions, Tag Traum (Germany)

Editing: Michal Oppenheim

Filming: Uriel Sinai, Itay Vinograd

Animation: Yoav Brill

Actors : Anna Kasprik (Narration)

Soundtrack: Itzik Cohen and Rei Elbaz

Music : Boaz Schory

81 minutes | Israel, Germany | 2022 | Hebrew, German

Produced by
  • Kan – Israeli Public Broadcasting Corp |
  • Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg |
  • Film Und Medien Stiftung