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"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…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2004Holt Paperbacks · 472 pages · 9780805076899
- Hardcover · English · 2003Metropolitan Books · 464 pages · 9780805066302
- Other · English · 2014PatronHolt & Company, Henry · 9781466881044
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