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German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948 : between dream and reality / by Claudia Sonino ; translated by Juliet Haydock.
LIBRA DS113.8.G4 S4613 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonino, Claudia, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Tra sogno e realtà. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jews, German--Palestine--Biography.
- Jews, German.
- Palestine--History--1917-1948.
- Palestine.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration.
- Italy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 201 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- With an approach both personal and symbolic, German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948: Between Dream and Reality 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-Schüler, Arnold Zweig, and Paul Mühsam 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Between worlds
- From Prague to Jerusalem: Hugo Bergmann
- We can never be fully at home: Gershom Scholem in Eretz Yisrael
- Between exile and refuge: Gabriele Tergit in Palestine
- Else Laster- Schüler in Palestine: land of the Jews or "ugly Israel"?
- Arnold Zweig goes home: stranger in a strange land
- Paul Mühsam: a German Jew arrives in Palestine.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sonino, Claudia, author. German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948
- ISBN:
- 9781498540308
- 1498540309
- OCLC:
- 956434997
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