Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 202 g
The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City
Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 202 g
ISBN: 978-1-914979-04-0
Verlag: Haus Publishing
Displaced by the rising tide of Nazism across Europe, a generation of German-speaking Jewish poets, thinkers, writers and architects left their homes and emigrated to Palestine.
They settled in Rehavia, a garden suburb of Jerusalem planned in the early 1920s and brought to life by cultural and intellectual influences ranging from Bauhaus to Kabbalah.
With Thomas Sparr as our guide, we encounter the people whose German-Jewish identity - unique to that time and place - gave Rehavia its character: from the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler to the historian Gershom Scholem and the philosopher and scholar Martin Buber. Through them, German Jerusalem reveals the trauma of exile from not only a country but a language and a culture. The result is a group portrait of this extraordinary neighbourhood and of a vanished world.
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Foreword ix
The Journey to London 1
Evening in Jerusalem 13
Rehavia as a Way of life and Thought 27
Arrival of the architects 30
Käsebier takes Jerusalem 36
Of love and Darkness 39
Beginnings 43
The Hebrew Gymnasium 48
Visitors 51
A Zionist Official 60
Gingeria 62
‘rehavia stays German!’ 65
Synagogues in rehavia 68
The Taste of rehavia 77
Life stories of a neighbourhood 87
Kabbalist: Gershom scholem 87
Mother’s Boy: Betty and Gershom scholem 98
Guest arabs: Brit shalom 102
Utopian rehavia: Walter Benjamin 105
Concubine: a Club in Jerusalem 109
The sorcerer’s apprentice: George lichtheim 115
Professor unworldly: escha and Gershom scholem 118
rediscovery: Werner Kraft 120
In the land of Israel: ludwig strauß 131
From merhavia to rehavia: Tuvia ru¨bner 133
Heavenly rehavia: else lasker-schu¨ler 135
1948: rehavia Besieged 143
a Birthday in Jerusalem: martin Buber and
Baruch Kurzweil 147
Geography of the soul: lea Goldberg 150
eichmann in rehavia: Hannah arendt 154
‘Homeland – What number are You?’ mascha
Kaléko in Jerusalem 159
arrival of the Chancellor: Konrad adenauer 166
self-Displaced Person: Peter szondi 170
‘say, that Jerusalem is’: Ilana shmueli and Paul Celan 176
rehavia revisited 181
Acknowledgements 189
Bibliography 191
Index 203
