Niemandsland

On Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 2 p.m. (Jerusalem)/1 p.m. (Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Director of the Dubnow Institute and Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present her publication »Niemandsland. Hader am Berg Scopus«. This was published in 2021 in the series »toldot« of the Dubnow Institute.

In the 1920s and 1930s, several important Jewish institutions were founded on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem: the Hebrew University, the Jewish National Library, and the Hadassa Hospital. The significance of these institutions to the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, was both very real and also highly symbolical. However, following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, these institutions found themselves in Jordanian territory, in an enclave administered by the UN and difficult to access. This enclave henceforth became the object of conflicting claims to sovereignty, while the Jewish cultural assets held there, especially books and other collections, remained beyond the grasp of the scholars who had fastidiously protected them for decades prior. Through these objects and their fates, Yfaat Weiss’s essay tells the story of the history of Jerusalem following war and partition.

The digital Book Launch will take place in Hebrew and is organized by the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.

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