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Andr SchiffrinAndr Schiffrin is an author and was director of publishing at Pantheon Books for nearly thirty years. As a publisher, he was partially responsible for introducing Pasternak, Foucault and others to America. He quit for numerous reasons related to a perceived crisis in publishing, which are explained in his work The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read (2000). He is the son of Jacques Schiffrin, an ex-Russian Jew who emigrated to France and enjoyed success briefly there as a publisher of the La Collection de La Pliade editions, which he founded, and which was bought by Gallimard, until he was dismissed on account of the anti-Semitic laws enforced during the Vichy regime in France. Mr. Schiffrin had to flee and eventually found refuge in America. Andr Schiffrin established The New Press, a not-for-profit publishing house, in 1990 after leaving Pantheon. See also External link The New Press
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