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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

My Wanderings in the Gardens: The Legacy of Hansen House in Jerusalem

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