German Jerusalem - The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City

The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-912208-61-6
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia become a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards, acquiring the nickname ‘Grunewald on the Orient’ – a reference to the residential south-western district of Berlin. The neighbourhood became a lively German-Jewish microcosm, with residents including the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, the historian Gershom Scholem, and the philosopher and scholar Martin Buber. It was an idyllic setting, but life was also tough and could be unforgiving; it lay at the cross hairs of a long-divided city. After the war, the recent history of the Shoah weighed heavily on the neighbourhood’s inhabitants, but it also became a place of German-Israeli rapprochement. German Jerusalem is a story of a culturally distinctive neighbourhood, and a fascinating group biography of those who lived and worked there.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sparr, Thomas

Brown, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart

Über Autor(innen)

Sparr, Thomas
THOMAS SPARR worked at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Leo Baeck Institute from 1986 to 1989. Today he lives in Berlin where he works as an editor-at-large for Suhrkamp and as an independent writer and scholar.

STEPHEN BROWN is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic.

THOMAS SPARR worked at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Leo Baeck Institute from 1986 to 1989. Today he lives in Berlin where he works as an editor-at-large for Suhrkamp and as an independent writer and scholar.

STEPHEN BROWN is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic.