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German Jerusalem
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Thomas Sparr is a publisher-at-large for the German publisher Suhrkamp and former chief editor at Siedler. For many years, he worked at the Hebrew University and Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem. Stephen Brown is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic. His translations from German include Sartorius's The Princes' Islands and Birgit Haustedt's Rilke's Venice.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781914979040
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing, (11 July 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 207
- Weight
- 204 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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