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- catalog abstract ""A sweeping, colorful saga, The Patron is the first biography of Salman Schocken, the founder of a large department store chain and a Jewish philanthropic titan. We follow Schocken's transformation from an impoverished migrant selling textiles door-to-door to a captain of German industry, at once media magnate, collector, talent scout, and patron. The merchandising millionaire then harnessed his fortune to a vision: to produce and disseminate Jewish secular culture to the Jewish masses, in much the same way as he marketed well-designed coffeepots to the working class. With his success, the breadth of Schocken's many ventures grew to include an extensive library, educational institutes, a publishing house, and a newspaper, as well as the patronage of such influential modern thinkers as Martin Buber and Thomas Mann. But as the Nazi regime closed in on Schocken's empire, the ever-resilient tycoon transferred his energies and passions to Palestine and New York." "The Patron fills in a missing piece of twentieth-century history, the towering life of a self-made man who, with courage and tenacity, helped fashion a people's national and cultural renaissance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13070712.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""A sweeping, colorful saga, The Patron is the first biography of Salman Schocken, the founder of a large department store chain and a Jewish philanthropic titan. We follow Schocken's transformation from an impoverished migrant selling textiles door-to-door to a captain of German industry, at once media magnate, collector, talent scout, and patron. The merchandising millionaire then harnessed his fortune to a vision: to produce and disseminate Jewish secular culture to the Jewish masses, in much the same way as he marketed well-designed coffeepots to the working class.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-435) and index.".
- catalog description "With his success, the breadth of Schocken's many ventures grew to include an extensive library, educational institutes, a publishing house, and a newspaper, as well as the patronage of such influential modern thinkers as Martin Buber and Thomas Mann. But as the Nazi regime closed in on Schocken's empire, the ever-resilient tycoon transferred his energies and passions to Palestine and New York." "The Patron fills in a missing piece of twentieth-century history, the towering life of a self-made man who, with courage and tenacity, helped fashion a people's national and cultural renaissance."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "451 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0805066306".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Books,".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "381/.1/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "HC282.5.S39 D38 2003".
- catalog subject "Jewish businesspeople Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Literary patrons Biography.".
- catalog subject "Literary patrons Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Publishers and publishing Germany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Schocken, Salman, 1877-1959.".
- catalog title "The patron : a life of Salman Schocken, 1877-1959 / Anthony David.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".