ISRAEL - André CHOURAQUI (1917-2007, Israeli writer and poli - Lot 647

ISRAEL - André CHOURAQUI (1917-2007, Israeli writer and politician) / Correspondence of 10 signed typed letters (total 12 p in-4), headed "Municipality of Jerusalem", from November 19, 1968 to March 15, 1970, about Suarès' works ("La Bible restituée", "Le Sepher Yetsira"), his translation of the "Song of Songs", about Israel "Israel is a very young people barely twenty years old. If you lived with us here, you would know that light prevails over shadows and you would perhaps share the certainties of our future", he talks about his occupations and responsibilities "in this disputed City", he evokes Suarès' former positions ("I know that you were strongly taken to task for the attacks you published against Israel in the fifties, when you lived in Alexandria. I'm sure your view would have been quite different if you had seen at first hand the unprecedented effort being made by this people of yours in all areas of its national renaissance. Since then, things have become much clearer, it seems to me, both for Egypt, which its dictators have finished ruining, and for Israel, whose deep significance and real stature are also beginning to be revealed", on the convictions of the two men ("You aspire to a symbiosis between historical Judaism and the timeless message of Hebraism. This is what we are fighting for here, and only here can this symbiosis be realized", "you will find here men who belong to your spiritual family and who are fighting dangerously, sometimes heroically, for the fulfillment of your aspirations", "you are right to speak of messianism; here we see its realizations and promises in the merciless conflict that the Powers are waging on this earth"), etc., one could quote a great many particularly significant passages on Israel