Exhibit Index

Bazalel Bookcase

Contains books that would be typically found in the home of an erudite German Jew during this era.

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982)

Founder of the academic discipline on Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism.

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929):

Major 20th century Jewish philosopher

Das Ostjüdische Antlitz [The Eastern Jewish Countenance] (1919)

By Arnold Zweig with illustrations by Hermann Struck

Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925)

An artist who established a new Zionist iconography

Ost und West [East and West] (1901-1923)

A richly illustrated Jewish journal

Judische Lexicon and Encyclopaedia Judaica

20th century German Jewish encyclopedia

Jüdische Rundschau [The Jewish Review]

Journal of the German Zionist Movement

He-Atid [The Future], Devir [The Word], and Ha-Tekufah [The Generation]

Scholarly journals which illuminate the encounter between East and West

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970)

Modern Hebrew novelist

Martin Buber (1878-1965)

Jewish philosopher and writer

Der Jude [The Jew] (1916-1924)

Major intellectual journal

Milgroyim/Rimon (1922-1924)

Art and literature journal

Ismar Elbogen (1874-1943)

Chief historian in Weimar, Germany

Jüdischer Verlag

The central agency for the promotion of Jewish literature, art and scholarship

Micha Josef Berdyczewski [later Bin Gorion] (1865-1921)

Esteemed Hebrew writer

Saul Tchernichowsky (1875-1943)

Zionist Hebrew poet and folklorist

Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934)

The greatest Hebrew poet of modern times

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945)

German Jewish poet and icon