From its 1902 foundation in Berlin up into the 1920s, the publishing house Jüdischer Verlag pursued a largely Zionist orientation. Its perennially precarious financial situation saw little change even after the sale of the company to a new private owner, Siegmund Kaznelson. By the time it was forcibly broken up in 1938, Jüdischer Verlag had published some 250 titles, among them milestones of Jewish literary activity that included Jüdischer Almanach and book…