German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948 (eBook)

Between Dream and Reality

Claudia Sonino (Autor)

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2016
216 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498540315 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume leads us through the imagined world, the delusions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and psychological dynamics of six German Jewish writers and intellectuals who arrived in Palestine between the 1920s and 1930s. The approach is both personal and symbolic as each witnesses the gap between dream and reality from their own perspective, representing it at many levels.

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With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads us through the imagined worlds, delusions, discoveries, questions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and psychological dynamics of six German-Jewish writers and intellectuals who arrived in Palestine between the 1920s and 1930s. Hugo Bergmann, Gershom Scholem, Gabriele Tergit, Else Lasker-Schuler, Arnold Zweig, and Paul Muhsam witnessed the gap between dream and reality from their own perspectives, representing it at many levels: intellectual, cultural, historical, psychological, and literary. As these six figures arrived in Palestine, this ancient land long imagined by diaspora generations with life-long nostalgia was new and open to different interpretations, outcomes, and realities. This book explores the difficulties and challenges that these figures had to face as they returned to the land of their fathers, a return shadowed by a historical, symbolic and metaphysical exile. It tells the story of a culture suspended and balanced between many worlds- a story of exile and return that is still unfolding under our eyes today.

Autor

Claudia Sonino teaches modern and contemporary German literature at the University of Pavia.

Inhalt

Between Exile and Refuge: Gabriele Tergit in PalestineArnold Zweig Goes Home: Stranger in a Strange LandPaul Mühsam: A German Jew Arrives in Palestine

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2016
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Diaspora • European Heritage • exile • German Culture • Jewish heritage • Judaism • Palestine • promised land • Zionism
• ISBN-13: 9781498540315 / 9781498540315