Gustav (Gershom) Schocken

Gustav "Gershom" Schocken was born on 29 September 1912 in Zwickau, the son of Zerline "Lilli" (née Ehrmann) and Salman Schocken, a businessman and founder of the department stores' group of the same name.
In 1924, the family moved into a villa designed by architect Hermann Muthesius in the west of Berlin-Zehlendorf at Lessingstrasse 29, which was renamed Limastrasse in 1936. Gershom studied at the University of Heidelberg and at the London School of Economics. After Adolf Hitler came to power, he moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1933, a few months before his family followed him into exile in Palestine in January 1934. He gets a job at the Anglo-Palestine Bank, where he works until 1936. His father puts him in charge of the Haaretz newspaper, which he has since acquired. For 50 years, Gershom developed a leading national and international newspaper as editor.
Gershom Schocken has three children with his wife Shulamit Parsitz: Amos (born 1944, subsequent editor of Haaretz to this day), Hillel (born 1947,
architect) and Racheli Edelman (born 1942, publisher of Schocken Books Tel Aviv).