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Tel-Aviv, the First Century Visions, Designs, Actualities

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ISBN-10: 0253223571

ISBN-13: 9780253223579

Edition: 2011

Authors: Maoz Azaryahu, S. Ilan Troen

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.408

Maoz Azaryahu is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Haifa and author of Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City.S. Ilan Troen is Stoll Family Professor of Israel Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

Preface
Introduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized
Historical Issues
Telling the Story of a Hebrew City
Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929-1959
Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective
From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks
Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv
Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source
South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa-The Frontier Zone of "In Between"
Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story
Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability
Language, Literature, and Art
Tel-Aviv Language Police
Der Eko Fun Goles: "The Spirit of Tel-Aviv" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History
A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems
Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv
Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv
Planning and Architecture
The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes
Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv
Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics
The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor
Afterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis
Contributors
Index