5 Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: “Spark-Plug” of the YMCA Arts Club

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Translation and Transliteration xvii
5. Prologue: The King David Hotel Bombing, Jerusalem, July 22, 1946 1
6. Introduction: Reading an Impossible Friendship Through a Group Portrait 11
7. PART I: THE TIME BEFORE 1948
8. 1 “Changing Jerusalem: A New Panorama of the Holy City” 31
9. 2 Walid Khalidi: A Jerusalemite “in the Byronic Tradition” 51
10. 3 Rasha Salam Khalidi: “A Non-Conformist Moslem Arab Woman” 85
11. 4 Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Belated Surrealist and “Exclusive Geheimtyp” 102
12. 5 Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: “Spark-Plug” of the YMCA Arts Club 138
13. PART II: THE TIME BEYOND
14. 6 Border Crossing 177
15. 7 Public Engagement in Worlds Apart 202
16. Epilogue: Late Correspondence 225
17. Notes 239
18. Bibliography 301
19. Index 335