Jacob de Haan – A Voice out of Time

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In the series Jewish Life: A poet between the fronts - Portrait of Jacob de Haan, visionary of a peaceful Jewish-Arab future

Jacob Israel de Haan, born in 1881 into an orthodox Jewish family in the Netherlands, was a Dutch-Jewish poet, social-democratic lawyer, journalist and activist. Known early on for homoerotic literature such as "Pipelines" (1904), he turned to the Zionist movement and moved to Palestine in 1919. After conflicts with the Zionist leadership, he joined the Haredi opposition, which rejected a Jewish state, and eventually became a spokesman for the movement, which still exists today. As a correspondent, he campaigned for peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence and a two-state solution. On June 30, 1924, he was shot in Jerusalem - presumably by the Zionist underground army Hagana, possibly with the knowledge of the later President Jizchak Ben Zwi. The documentary "Jacob de Haan - A Voice Out of Time" by Zvi Landsman sheds light on de Haan's life, work and political changes and presents new evidence about his murder, based on previously unknown archive material and statements by descendants of the alleged perpetrators. On the 100th anniversary of his death, de Haan received international recognition as an important poet, pioneer of human rights and visionary of a peaceful Jewish-Arab future.

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