pantheon books was founded in 1942 in new york city by helen and kurt wolff who had come to the united states to escape fascism and the holocaust. pantheon is currently part of bertelsmann. important early works published by pantheon were "zen and the art of archery" by german scholar eugen herrigel, the bollingen series (composed of c. g. jung's collected works in english and books of noted jungian scholars), the first complete translation of the "i ching", and boris pasternak's "doctor zhivago".