17 Facts About Bruno Hussar

Bruno Hussar was a genuinely 'transnational transcultural and multilingual' individual.

Bruno Hussar came to Jerusalem to establish this institution in 1952.

Bruno Hussar was born, Andre, in Egypt in 1911, the son of a Hungarian father and a French mother, both assimilated Jews.

Bruno Hussar grew up speaking several languages and used to call himself a "man with four identities".

Bruno Hussar saw in the foundation of the state of Israel a step towards the fulfilment of a Christian salvific plan and was charged with establishing a Centre for the Study of Judaism in the Israeli sector of Jerusalem in 1953.

Bruno Hussar desired to establish a monastic brotherhood in Jerusalem as an anti-Torquemada symbol disavowing the persecutions of Jews which the Spanish inquisitor had undertaken.

Bruno Hussar encountered considerable difficulties with the Latin Catholic Hierarchy of the Holy Land, whose members were predominantly of Arab origin, and assisted in the establishment of the St James Association to cater to the minority of Jewish Catholics, a year later, on the 14 December 1954, who were viewed with suspicion by Palestinian Catholics and marginalised by Israeli Jewish society.

Bruno Hussar obtained secret permission from the Vatican to have a Jewish wedding celebrated before the Catholic wedding was performed in 1960.

Bruno Hussar, assisted by letters to the Pope written by Rina Geftman, sought not patronage, but formal authorisation for his projected Yishuv Neve Shalom from the then Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Alberto Gori, who was opposed to the plan.

Bruno Hussar imposed from the very outset a politics of neutrality.

Bruno Hussar refrained from taking any public stand, though he did write in his 1988 book, When the cloud lifted, that the Intifada was:.

Bruno Hussar thought the Jews had a right, sanctioned by the United Nations, to live in a land of their own.

Bruno Hussar made a precise semantic distinction in Hebrew between sheket and dumia, associating the latter with the 'freshet of air, the voice of a subtle silence' Elijah heard in the desert according to the Book of Kings.

Bruno Hussar was even more culturally ecumenical, learning from a Japanese priest how to perform mass while practising zazen.

Bruno Hussar was to break his retreat into silence on hearing of the news of the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which struck him as putting an end to illusions created by the peace previously envisaged as a result of the Oslo I Accord.

Bruno Hussar interpreted the assassination biblically as a sign of aharit ha-yamim, the end of days, and.

Bruno Hussar was nominated in successive years for the Nobel Peace Prize.