German Jerusalem
Haus Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-914979-04-0 (ISBN)
Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia became 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 vibrant German-Jewish microcosm with residents including the poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schuler, 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; the city had long been divided, and the residents of Talbiyeh and Rehavia found themselves caught up in the conflict. 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 community, and a fascinating biography of those who lived and worked there.
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.
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 rübner 133
Heavenly rehavia: else lasker-schüler 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 map |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-914979-04-4 / 1914979044 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-914979-04-0 / 9781914979040 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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