Tarshish Books Jerusalem

Moshe Maurice Spitzer founded Tarshish Books in Jerusalem between 1939 and 1940. He published popular design and literary books.

Spitzer began working as an editor for the Schocken Verlag in Berlin beginning in 1933. In 1934 he became the publisher of the Schocken-Buecherei and from August until the liquidation of the Schocken Verlag in December 1938 he was the manager. He immigrated to Palestine in March 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
• Estermann, Monika; Fischer, Ernst; Wittmann, Reinhard (2008): Parallelwelten des Buches http://books.google.de/books?id=x7KjS87e-mwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Hirschfeld, Ariel (2010): Lifeline. In: Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/lifeline-1.292596