Frederick Ungar Publishing Company was a New York publishing firm which was founded in 1940.
History
The Frederick Ungar Publishing Company published over 2,000 titles, including reference books such as the ''Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century'' and many works on literature and cinema.
The more than 200 translations published by the firm of works by such authors as
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
, including his ''
Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen'' (1918) (translated as ''Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man''),
Erich Fromm and
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...
helped make those works more popular in the United States.
[(19 November 1988)]
Frederick Ungar; World Literature Publisher
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The company was acquired by
Continuum Publishing Company in 1985.
[McDowell, Edwin (14 September 1985)]
UNGAR PUBLISHING IS BOUGHT BY CONTINUUM
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Frederick "Fritz" Ungar
Frederick "Fritz" Ungar (born Friedrich Ungar) worked as a publisher from 1922 and co-founded the publishing houses Phaidon Verlag (later
Phaidon Press) and Saturn Verlag in
Vienna
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. With the Nazis coming to power in his country, he left Austria for New York in 1939 and founded the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company there in 1940. He died in 1988.
[(18 November 1988)]
Frederick Ungar, 90, Founder of Publishing House
''The New York Times
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Book series
* American Classics
American Classics
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* Atlantic Paperbacks
* College Translations
* A Library of Literary Criticism
* Literature and Life: American Writers
* Literature and Life: British Writers
* Literature and Life: Mystery Writers
* The Literatures of the World in English Translation: A Bibliography
* Medical Viewpoint Series
* Milestones of Thought ilestones of Thought in the History of Ideas* Modern Film Scripts
* Modern Literature Monographs
* Renaissance Text Series
* RKO Classic Screenplays
* Ungar Film Library
* Ungar Writers' Recognitions Series
* World Dramatists
External links
Frederick Ungar Papers, 1931-1989
at M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, State University of New York
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
a
Database – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945
References
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Publishing companies established in 1940
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
American companies established in 1940