Salman Schocken

Salman Z. Schocken
Born	(1877-10-30)October 30, 1877 Margonin, Posen, German Empire
Died	August 6, 1959(1959-08-06) (aged 81) Pontresina, Switzerland
Resting place	Israel
Occupation(s)	Publisher, businessman
Known for	Kaufhaus Schocken Haaretz Schocken Books
Children	4 sons, 1 daughter

Salman Schocken (German: [ˌzalman ˈʃɔkn̩] ^ⓘ) or Shlomo Zalman Schocken (Hebrew: שלמה זלמן שוקן) (October 30, 1877 – August 6, 1959) was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz (which is still majority-owned by his descendants).