Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

Frederick Ungar founded the Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. in New York in 1940. He published books of German and Austrian authors. He benefited from the reprint program of the United States Office of the Alien Property Custodian, which allowed him to reprint German books for the US market without paying for licenses.

Before he came to the USA, he had founded the Saturn Verlag in Vienna in 1928. In 1938 he fled to Prague without any money. As conditions were not secure there anymore either, he started his journey to the USA with stations in Zurich and London. He finally arrived in New York in 1939.

Resources

• Fischer, Ernst: Verleger, Buchhaendler und Antiquare aus Deutschland und Oesterreich in der Emigration nach 1933: ein biographisches Handbuch / von Ernst Fischer. - Stuttgart : Verband Deutscher Antiquare, 2011
• New York Times Obituary. Frederick Ungar (1988) http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/18/obituaries/frederick-ungar-90-founder-of-publishing-house.html
• Schenker Documents Online. Fritz [Frederick] Ungar (2012) http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/profiles/person/entity-000906.html
• Abel , Richard; Graham, William Gordon (2009): Immigrant Publishers. The Impact of Expatriate Publishers in Britain and America in the 20th century http://books.google.de/books?id=dHDxM6w_JikC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Immigrant+Publishers:+The+Impact+of+Expatriate+Publishers+in+Britain+and+...&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z3e8UP_pM4bgtQb-6ICgAw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA