Verfehlte Mission. Das geteilte Jerusalem und die Vereinten Nationen

In the organizer's words:

Reading with Yfaat Weiss

In November 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the partition plan for the British Mandate of Palestine - with the exception of Jerusalem. This city, to which all three monotheistic religions laid claim and still do today, was to be transferred undivided to the care of the UN. But the Israeli-Arab War in 1948 thwarted this plan. Jerusalem was divided into East and West with an exclave in the north-east of the city.

For the first time, historian Yfaat Weiss examines the history of this exclave up to the Six-Day War in 1967 on the basis of sources scattered around the world: the UN's futile attempts to bring about peace between the conflicting parties Jordan and Israel, the claims to sovereignty by both parties, the relocated holdings of the National Library, and finally the Palestinian village of Issawiya in the middle of the exclave. This is where history reaches into our present.

Moderator: Philipp Lenhard, Chair of Jewish History and Culture at LMU Munich

An event of the Center for Israel Studies of the LMU Munich and the Jewish Museum Munich