ليا ونسيب: القدس من خلال قصّة منسيّة

Norbert Schwake, born in 1939 in Germany, holds a master’s degree in theology and biblical studies. Formerly a priest in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Schwake became a medical doctor in 1978, and a researcher of the history of Jerusalem’s hospitals and of the Palestine Front in World War I. The author based this essay on the investigations of Carole Düster-Boucherot, a descendant of the Abcarius family; Moshe Hananel’s “The Jerusalemites: A Journey through the British Mandate Telephone Book, 1946,” published in Hebrew in Eretz Magazine (2007); and the works of Israeli architect David Kroyanker. The author wishes to thank Professor István Ormos of Budapest for his important comments on the draft.