Jüdischer Verlag [Jewish Publishing House] was founded shortly before the Fifth Zionist Congress (December 26–30, 1901, Basel) by a group of initiators in Berlin, including Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Berthold Feiwel, and Davis Trietsch. The company was registered as a limited liability company (GmbH) in the Berlin Commercial Register in October 1902. B. Feiwel headed the publishing house until 1907. It was temporarily based in Cologne, then returned to Berlin in 1911. In 1920 or 1921, Siegmund Kaznelson took over as managing director and Martin Buber as literary director. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the publishing house was able to continue operating only under severe restrictions until it was banned in 1938. However, with Kaznelson’s emigration in 1937, the publishing house had already largely dissolved. The publishing house was reestablished or restored in Berlin in 1958. In 1978, the heiress Ilse Walter transferred the previously independent Jüdischer Verlag to Athenäum Verlag, which operated it as a legally dependent subsidiary. In 1990, Suhrkamp Verlag acquired 51% of the shares; since 1992, the publishing program has been published as “Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag.” Today, the publishing house is based as an imprint of Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.