German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948: Between Dream and Reality

by Sonino, Claudia

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Title Statements

Full title :German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948 : Between Dream and Reality / by Claudia Sonino ; translated by Juliet Haydock.

Summary

With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads readers 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.--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Lexington Books
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

Notes

Translated from the Italian.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 201 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781498540308, 1498540309, 1498540317, 9781498540315
oclc:ocn956434997
LC Classification:DS113.8.G4
Dewey Decimal:305.892/40569409041

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.

Subjects

Auswanderung Biographies BMBF-Statusseminar Einwanderung Emigration and immigration Eretz Israel -- Emigration and immigrat… Eretz Israel -- History -- 1917-1948, B… History Italy Italy -- Emigration and immigration Jewish philosophers -- 20th century. --… Jews, German Jews, German -- Biography. -- Eretz Isr… Jews, German -- Biography. -- Palestine Juden Juifs allemands -- Biographies. -- Pale… Middle East -- Palestine Palestine Palestine -- Emigration and immigration Palestine -- Histoire -- 1917-1948