Mayor Teddy Kollek has written to Alexander Solzhenitsyn inviting him to come with his family to Jerusalem for a period of time. Kollek sent a cable to the home of Heinrich Boell–himself a winner of the biennial Jerusalem Prize–where the Nobel Laureate is staying since he was ousted yesterday from the Soviet Union. At the same time Haifa University invited the Russian writer to join its faculty. The invitation was cabled to the author in care of Boell.
The Mayor suggested that Solzhenitsyn stay at “Mishkenot Shaananim.” the plush and tasteful hostel for artists, musicians and writers which was opened opposite the old city walls last summer. The hostel is housed in the old alms-houses originally built a century ago by British Jewish philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Guests are expected to stay up to one year–at the city’s expense–and work in the studios provided and also hold seminars and lectures for local students. Kollek invited the exiled author to “live and work” in Mishkenot, without citing a time duration.
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