Where Memory Leads: My Life by Friedländer Saul

Author:Friedländer, Saul [Friedländer, Saul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781590518106
Goodreads: 29092824
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2016-11-08T08:00:00+00:00

Then, a PS: “Mrs. Friedländer might like to know that the vacuum cleaner, which needed medical attention, was repaired at the nearby shopping center.”

How nice and civilized!

Unfortunately, George Kennan was no great friend of Jews, either before or during the world war, as I learned when I read his memoirs.

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The Hebrew University, a full-fledged member of which I had now become, was a proud institution. Established in 1925, it aspired to become the university of the Jewish people. From its original site, Mount Scopus, it overlooked the whole city of Jerusalem on one side and the Judean Hills descending toward the Dead Sea on the other. It would be hard to imagine a more august and inspiring location. After the war of 1948 and the division of Jerusalem, the university buildings on Mount Scopus remained an empty enclave within Jordanian-controlled territory, reached only sporadically and under strict supervision for basic maintenance purposes. In 1967, after the Israeli occupation of the whole of Jerusalem, access to Mount Scopus was free again.

While Haifa could take pride in its Institute of Technology, and Rehovoth (south of Tel Aviv) in its Research Institute in the Sciences, while Tel Aviv was setting up a still fledgling university, Jerusalem remained, in the early 1970s — and in its own opinion — the guardian of excellence in Israeli higher learning. Truly important from the outset and throughout the first two decades of the state’s history was the Hebrew University’s role as a bastion of liberalism in opposition to the wanton supremacy of state interests preached by Ben-Gurion. Later, it was there that quite a number of voices arose against the extreme nationalism that followed the Six-Day War, particularly in regard to the occupied territories and the fate of the Palestinians more generally.

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