Frederick Ungar Publishing Company Explained

Frederick Ungar Publishing Company
Status:	Defunct
Founded:	1940
Founder:	Frederick Ungar
Successor:	Continuum Publishing Company
Country:	United States
Headquarters:	New York City
Publications:	Books

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.^[1] The more than 200 translations published by the firm of works by such authors as Thomas Mann, including his Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (1918) (translated as Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man), Erich Fromm and Goethe helped make those works more popular in the United States.^[2]

The company was acquired by Continuum Publishing Company in 1985.^[3]

Frederick "Fritz" Ungar

Frederick "Fritz" Ungar (born Friedrich Ungar)^[4] worked as a publisher from 1922 and co-founded the publishing houses Phaidon Verlag (later Phaidon Press) and Saturn Verlag in Vienna. 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

Book series

• American Classics^[5]
• Atlantic Paperbacks^{[6] [7]}
• 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^[8]
• Milestones of Thought in the History of Ideas
• Modern Film Scripts
• Modern Literature Monographs
• Renaissance Text Series
• RKO Classic Screenplays
• Ungar Film Library
• Ungar Paperbacks
• 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. at Database – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945 (Leo Baeck Institute)

Notes and References

1. Subset of titles available through copyright registration database search.
2. (19 November 1988). Frederick Ungar; World Literature Publisher, Los Angeles Times
3. McDowell, Edwin (14 September 1985). UNGAR PUBLISHING IS BOUGHT BY CONTINUUM, The New York Times
4. http://verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com/?page_id=562 Saturn-Verlag (Phaidon Verlag) (Wien)
5. https://seriesofseries.com/american-classics/ American Classics
6. https://casetext.com/case/atlantic-monthly-co-v-frederick-ungar-publishing Atlantic Monthly Co. v. Frederick Ungar Publishing
7. https://www.qpbseries.com/home/alphabetical-list-of-series/trade-series/atlantic-ungar-paperbacks Atlantic Paperbacks / Ungar Paperbacks
8. https://www.qpbseries.com/home/alphabetical-list-of-series/classroom-series/milestones-of-thought Milestones of Thought