J. E. Hanauer

James (John) Edward Hanauer (1850–1938) was an author, photographer, and Canon of St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem.^[1]

Biography

Hanauer was born to Bavarian Jewish and Swiss parents in Damascus^[2] and baptised in Jaffa (in then Ottoman Syria); he moved to Jerusalem at an early age.^[1] His father, Christian Wilhelm Hanauer, was born in Fellheim, Bavaria, in 1810, but came to Jerusalem and converted from Judaism to Christianity in September 1843 through the London Society.^[3] J. E. Hanauer later became head of the same institution through which his father converted.^[4]

Hanauer died in his home in Jerusalem on 15 June 1938.^[2] He was subsequently buried in Jerusalem's Protestant Cemetery, Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Career

Hanauer was employed by Charles Warren's expedition to the Transjordan, as a translator and assistant photographer, the beginning of his interest in research on the antiquities and folklore of the region and leading to his involvement with the Palestine Exploration Fund. His papers and correspondence were published in the Quarterly Statement of that British society after 1881, which also issued his booklet Table of the Christian and Mohammedan Eras in 1904; he was supplied with high quality photographic equipment to supplement his productions. Some of his collection of photographs were reproduced in his 1910 work, Walks about Jerusalem; his brother and son were also active in this field. In 1907 his Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish was published in London.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Canon James (John) Edward Hanauer, 1850-1938". Profiles. The Palestine Exploration Fund. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Notes and News". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 70 (3): 141. July 1938.
^ Perry, Yaron (2003). British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestine. Frank Cass. pp. 81, 91. ISBN 9780714683850. They appointed a Jewish convert, Christian Wilhelm Hanauer (1810-73), a native of Fellheim near Memmingen in southwest Bavaria. . . . Hanauer, who was called Moshe Ben-Michael Halevi before his conversion to Christianity, was baptised in Jerusalem in September 1843. . . . Some time afterwards his son, James Edward Hanauer, was born. J. E. Hanauer, who was to become a London Society missionary even better known than his father, will be discussed later on.
^ Perry, Yaron (2003). British mission to the Jews in nineteenth-century Palestine. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7146-5416-4.

Bibliography

Hanauer, J.E.; Masterman, E.W.G. (1901). "The ruin at Khurbet Beit Sawir". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 33 (3): 305–306. doi:10.1179/peq.1901.33.3.305.
(pref. 1904): A table of the Christian and the Mohammedan eras from July 15th, A.D. 622, the date of the Hejira, to A.D. 1900
(1904): Tales told in Palestine
(1907): Folk-lore of the Holy Land. Moslem, Christian and Jewish
- Alternative: Folk-lore of the Holy Land. Moslem, Christian and Jewish
(1910): Walks about Jerusalem