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Abstract This article deals with the passage of German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1938 and concentrates on the ship passage itself. I focus on the stories, descriptions and reflections of the travelers that can be found in diaries, letters, travelogues, or even novels, which some of them wrote after the trip. On the ship these travelers found themselves torn between different spaces: Europe, Asia, and “the Orient” and also between different times: the Old Europe of the enlightenment of the individual and the New Jewish homeland of the redemption of the Jewish collective. The overall topic that came to the fore in the reflections of the travelers is the search for the meaning of contemporary Jewish life as well as future prospects under worsening conditions not only in Germany but also in many other parts of Europe. Keywords sea voyage, in-betweenness, transition, German Jews, Palestine An Bord des Lebens Die Schiffspassage deutscher Juden nach Palästina 1933 bis 1938 als Übergangserfahrung zwischen Raum und Zeit David Jünger Mobile culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 1 2015, 147-163- Editor reviewed article Open Access: content is licensed under cc BY 3.0