SONCINO GESELLSCHAFT

Soncino

Berlin

1928-32

der Freunde des jüdischen Buches. Mitteilungen der Soncino Gesellschaft. Notices from the Soncino [Bibliophilic] Society, nos. 1-10 + New Series vol. 1 + Mitgleider-verzeichnis satzungen and veroffentlichungen [Membership Directory, Articles of Association and List of Publications].

Jewish bibliophile society, founded in Berlin in 1924, and liquidated by order of the Nazi government of Prussia in 1937. The Society aimed at the typographic improvement of the Jewish and Hebrew book, and commissioned numerous types of literary products such as scholarly works and periodicals, novels, short stories, plays, texts illustrated by modern artists, and reprints of interesting rare books. The texts were chosen from Jewish literature of all periods and languages. The Society published Soncino Blaetter; Beitraege zur Kunde des juedischen Buches, edited between 1925 and 1937 by Hermann Meyer, the founder and honorary secretary of the Society. In addition, Mitteilungen der Soncino Gesellschaft appeared between 1928 and 1932 with A. Horodisch as editor.