German Jews in Palestine, 1920-1948: Between Dream and Reality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498540308)

With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume 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.

Author: Claudia Sonino
ISBN-10: 1498540309
ISBN-13: 9781498540308
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d