The Bibliotheque Nationale, the French National Library, disclosed it had acquired more than 2,000 unpublished pages by Heinrich Heine, the Jewish poet and satirist, and another 2,500 pages of letters and documents about him, from the Schocken Foundation in Israel. The Library spokesman declined to reveal the price paid for the materials.
The transaction was handled through Gideon Schocken, a descendant of Salman Shocken, the German Jewish publisher who assembled the Heine materials as a hobby. He fled from Nazi Germany with his collection which was later sent by him to the Shocken Foundation in Israel. The library spokesman said the Heine collection was made up of letters, drafts, poems, sketches and some finished work. Heine spent much of his life in Paris as a voluntary exile from his native Germany. He died in Paris in 1856.
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