EAN: 9781912208616

GERMAN JERUSALEM - THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF A GER...

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-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  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.

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