Grunewald in the Orient – The German-Jewish Jerusalem. With Thomas Sparr

Rechavia was the German-Jewish Jerusalem, capital of the Jeckes. They had come to the country in very different ways, fled, moved, visited, temporarily interned by the British Mandate, escaped from Zionist self-assertion or the Nazi persecution. Many came from Berlin or spent a significant period of their lives there. The garden city Rechavia took up something of the inner layout of the big city. “Grunewald in the Orient” called residents and visitors Rechavia after the noble bourgeois West, who revived in the west of Jerusalem in their own way.

The inner geography of this few square kilometers has been handed down in books, letters, poems, pictures and photographs. Thomas Sparr told us stories from Else Lasker Schüler, Gershom Scholem, Werner Kraft, Mascha Kaléko, Anna Maria Jokl, Martin Buber, Franz Werfel, Hanna Ahrendt and many others, and closes the circle with Fania Oz-Salzberger. The historian and daughter of Amos Oz, who around the turn of the millennium wrote in the Grunewald in Berlin about the travels, the life and the search for traces of mostly young Israelis in Berlin.

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