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Hotel Tiberias: A Tale of Two Grandfathers Book
Part history, part travel and part autobiography, Hotel Tiberias is a journey of many layers and resonances, in which the author explores and unravels his own family history against the backdrop of history and events on the international stage. In 1900,Thomas Cook, who had been running tours of the Holy Land since the 1890s, financed the building of a hotel in Tiberias, the largest town on the Sea of Galilee, which had long been a stopover point for Christian pilgrims. The hotel, built, run and eventually owned by Richard Grossmann, was situated in the Sanjak of Acre, part of the Ottoman Empire, and after the First World War found itself in the British mandated territory of Palestine, prospering under British rule before until the Second World War, after which the hotel was eventually … read more...
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