Articles

• Bruno Hussar’s 112’th Birthday
  5 May 2023

  Bruno Hussar (1911 - 1996) would have celebrated his 112th birthday on Friday 5.5.2023. We invite you to get to know a bit more about Bruno by reading about his life.

• Booklet on Bruno Hussar
  24 May 2016, by Anne Le Meignen

  In honor of the 20th anniversary year of Bruno’s death, this is a translation of articles originally published by Anne Le Meignen in 1996.

• Our Bruno
  24 May 2016, by Joseph Emmanuel

  Joseph Emmanuel (1933 - 2013) wrote this for a booklet written by Anne Le Meignen, which he translated into Hebrew.

• Bruno Hussar - Chronology
  24 May 2016

  Major milestones and events in his life.

• My Bruno
  2 December 2008, by Abdessalam Najjar

  I first met Bruno in a dialogue encounter session for Jewish and Arab students, at the home of Reuven Moscovitz, a teacher who had joined the group. This was in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv.
  At Reuven’s invitation, Bruno came to the meeting with Anne Le Meignen, to explain his idea about founding a Jewish-Arab community called Neve Shalom, and to recruit more people to join the project. The whole thing felt very strange to me. Bruno’s ideas were not very clear. They lacked a practical (...)

• Bruno
  21 May 2008, by Bob Mark

  Words read to Rev. Nichiko Niwano and a delegation from the Rissho Kosei-Kai Organization who came to pay their respects at the grave of Fr. Bruno.

• From the "Will" of Bruno Hussar
  28 February 1996

  From the "Will" of Bruno Hussar *
  To my companions in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam:
  I ask that everything concerning my burial in N.S. will take place under the direction of Anne and Yohanon Elihai, with the active participation of all the companions. I turn towards the companions to say the following.
  I am glad to live permanently among you. I believe that death is not the end of life, but a kind of metamorphosis, as it were, a complete change of the same life, passing from a known to an (...)

• Poem
  21 February 1996, by Dafna Karta Schwartz

  The time of parting has come, The cocoon has turned into a butterfly Flying to look for other regions. But just a minute, Bruno, I want to tell you just a few more words. Words of love For a man that for whom love was the call of life, Love was the gate Through which many people passed - Jews, Christians and Muslims. You had a place for them all, Because you were seeking, and finding, the beautiful in each person. You had the power to hold and accept, You had the endless patience To dream (...)