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
Summary
This volume leads us through the imagined world, the delusions, 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. The approach is both personal and symbolic as each witnesses the gap between dream and reality from their own perspective, representing it at many levels
