Tel-Aviv, the First Century

Tel-Aviv, the First Century

Author: Maoz Azaryahu

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0253223571

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Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of disciplinary approaches and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban planning, gender studies, architecture, art, and other fields, these essays reveal the place of Tel-Aviv in the life and imagination of its diverse inhabitants. The careful and insightful tracing of the development of the city's urban landscape, the relationship of its varied architecture to its competing social cultures, and its evolving place in Israel's literary imagination come together to offer a vivid and complex picture of Tel-Aviv as a microcosm of Israeli life and a vibrant modern global city.


Overthrowing Geography

Overthrowing Geography

Author: Mark LeVine

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005-05-02

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780520938502

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This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there. At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv–Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine.


Old New Land

Old New Land

Author: Theodor Herzl

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3843035245

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Theodor Herzl: Old New Land. (AltNeuLand) First print Leipzig 1902. Translated by Dr. David Simon Blondheim, Federation of American Zionists, 1916 Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Paul Gauguin, Am Fusse des Berges, 1892. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.


A Place in History

A Place in History

Author: Barbara E. Mann

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780804750196

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A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the difficulties and challenges of this endeavor.


City Guide Tel Aviv

City Guide Tel Aviv

Author: Dalit Nemirovsky

Publisher: Crossfields TLV.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789657521007

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Now in its third edition, City Guide Tel Aviv is a comprehensive guide to one of the world's most exciting cities, ideal for travel enthusiasts and novices alike. Inspiration for your next vacation. Tel Aviv is quickly gaining attention as a desirable escape for visitors from around the world. This undiscovered gem on the Mediterranean has it all -- from beaches, night-clubs, gourmet restaurants, and chic boutiques to museums, opera, ballet, and art galleries. Insight into a young city's history. City Guide Tel Aviv includes a fascinating account of the city's brief but rich history, as well as description of the character and highlights of each of its five areas. Written, photographed, and edited by Tel Aviv's ultimate insiders. Israel's commercial and cultural capital has for years been a jealously guarded secret revealed only to a knowledgeable few. In this stylish, sophisticated traveller's companion, Nemirovsky shares the many wonders of her hometown.


Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Author: Maoz Azaryahu

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0815655029

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Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness and vitality. A young city, Tel Aviv continues to represent a fundamental idea that transcends the physical texture of the city and the everyday experiences of its residents. Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city. He relates Tel Aviv’s mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies. With critical insight, he evaluates specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture. Azaryahu explores three distinct stages in the history of the mythic Tel Aviv: "The First Hebrew City" assesses Tel Aviv as Zionist vision and seed of the actual city; "Non-Stop City" depicts trendy, global post-Zionist Tel Aviv; and "The White City" describes Tel Aviv’s architectural landscape, created in the 1930s and imbued with nostalgia and local prestige. Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City will appeal to urban geographers, cultural historians, scholars of myth, and students of Israeli society and culture.


Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Author: Joachim Schlör

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781861890337

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Joachim Schlor brings the reader closer to this most talked about city. Having interviewed numerous inhabitants and gathered information from memoirs, travel accounts and newspapers, the present day , as a centre of immigration containing reminders of every immigrants mother country, and as a catalyst between East and West.


City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

Author: Adam LeBor

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-05-17

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780393329841

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A profoundly human take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seen through the eyes of six families, three Arab and three Jewish. The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the "Bride of Palestine," one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, worked, and celebrated together—and it was commonplace for the Arabs of Jaffa to attend a wedding at the house of the Jewish Chelouche family or for Jews and Arabs to both gather at the Jewish spice shop Tiv and the Arab Khamis Abulafia's twenty-four-hour bakery. Through intimate personal interviews and generations-old memoirs, letters, and diaries, Adam LeBor gives us a crucial look at the human lives behind the headlines—and a vivid narrative of cataclysmic change.