Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel
Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian
Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in
Palestine. 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 until the Second World
War, after which the hotel was eventually confiscated by the
fledgling state of Israel in 1948. With the hotel as the pivotal
point in the story, Sebastian Hope researches the story of his
grandmother, Margaret Frena and her two husbands, Fritz Grossman
(Richard Grossman's son), who shot himself dead in 1938, the year
Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland, and John Winthrop Hackett
(General Sir John Hackett) who served with the TransJordan Frontier
Force. Journeying through Rhineland Germany, Turkey and the Middle
East, his research takes him to some strange places as he weaves a
wonderful, strong family story into a rich, sweeping backdrop of
both time and place. Just as he unravels the tumultuous history of
the area, Hope digs deep into the history and layers of his own
family, and discovers how family histories have an archaeology too.
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