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Ger­man Jerusalem: The Remark­able Life of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Neigh­bor­hood in the Holy City by Thomas Sparr

Trans­la­tor: Stephen Brown In the 1920s, before the establishment of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian…