With an approach both personal and symbolic this volume leads us through the imagined worlds delusions discoveries questions hopes ambivalences anxieties and historical cultural and psychological dynamics of six GermanJewish writers and intellectuals who arrived in Palestine between the 1920s and 1930s. Hugo Bergmann Gershom Scholem Gabriele Tergit Else LaskerampampndashSchampampuumller Arnold Zweig and Paul Mampampuumlhsam witnessed the gap between dream and reality from their own perspectives representing it at many levels intellectual cultural historical psychological and literary. As these six figures arrived in Palestine this ancient land long imagined by diaspora generations with lifelong nostalgia was new and open to different interpretations outcomes and realities.