Explore the hidden history of Hansen Hospital in Jerusalem once a leprosy asylum through rare images, research, and the story of Jesus Hilfe.

Over 280 pages enhanced with nearly 300 historic photos, maps, and computer-generated models, Rivka’s memoir is a testament to resilience and transformation.

Part I   Table of Contents

• Introduction

• The Phone Rang

• From Herrnhut to Jerusalem

• Passing the Torch of Healing

• Wounded Spirits

• How It All Began

• The House Becomes a Home

• Facing the Past

• Conservation, Rehabilitation, and Baking Without Preservatives

• Walls Constructed, Deconstructed, Reconstructed

• End of an Era: Jesus Hilfe Becomes Hansen Hospital and Beyond

• Schwesters, Sisters, and Finally Nurses

• Redemption

• Blossoming Boughs

• Epilogue

Part II   Additional Readings

• Contract of Sale of Jesus Hilfe, 1950

• The History of the Moravian Church

• Excerpts from Anna Maria Schubert’s Memoirs

• Playground for Healthy Children

• Excursion Days at Jesus Hilfe

• Elizabeth Schubert’s Postcard

• Thirsty Jerusalem

• Conrad Schick’s Map of Jerusalem 1894

• The Tzaddik Rabbi Arye Levin

• Photos of Patients

• “Harand the Leper” by Sr. Margarete Ribbach, 1939

• Matrons, Nurses and Doctors Through the Years

• Photo Album of Hansen Hospital (1954-1989)

• The Deaconesses at Jesus Hilfe

• Abu George

• Jerusalem-Ramallah British Railway 1918

• Hansen’s Disease and Treatment

• My Father, Dr. Moshe Beer Goldgraber

• A Palestinian Story: Dvora Broide Goldgraber’s Fayoumi Family

• Afterword

• Acknowledgements

• Hansen House Photographic Essay

PLEASE NOTE: The email printed in the book has been changed to RivkaRegevJerusalem2025@gmail.com