Erich Reiss

1934

Reiss und Heschel lernten sich 1934 kennen. Im Februar 1935 bot Reiss Heschel an, in seinem Verlag eine Bücherreihe zur Vergangenheit und Gegenwart des Judentums herauszugeben. Im Gegenzug verpflichtete sich Reiss, die Veröffentlichung von Heschels Dissertation finanziell zu unterstützen.

ca. Juni 1933/September 1933

Prinz: „I was contacted by Erich Reiss, one of the big publishers, who was also a literary adviser to Max Reinhardt, the theatrical producer. Reiss was a very interesting and strange man. [...] Reiss asked me to write a political book addressed to the Jews who had to live under the Hitler regime, who did not know what Jewish life really meant and did not know how to cope with it, either personally, politically, or economically.“