Tel-Aviv, the First Century

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.

"A much needed volume, bringing a range of perspectives to bear on the understudied center of Israeli cultural and commercial life."—Sara R. Horowitz, York University"A serious yet accessible look at the many facets that have come to constitute the complex personality of a very complicated city and society."—Kenneth E. Foote, University of Colorado at Boulder"This is a learned and engaging collection of essays that will be of much interest to scholars, students, and readers. Due to the wide range of articles within the volume, it will also be extremely useful in undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on Israeli history, urban studies, and cultural studies."—Religious Studies Review"A splendid critical celebration of Tel-Aviv's first hundred years, this collection of essays reads like a spirited conversation across academic disciplines and across ideologies."—Jewish Book Council"The essays are stimulating and original."—Canadian Jewish News"This volume encompasses a wide range of disciplinary approaches and the latest research on the essence of Tel Aviv. Israel's main metropolis is scrutinized through the lens of history, geography, architecture, art, literature, and gender studies, presenting the many facets that have come to constitute the elaborate personality of a very complicated city and society. This is by all means a much-needed volume, and required reading for any student of Tel Aviv."—H-Judaic"Anyone who loves Tel Aviv, a 'hybrid of East and West; myth and reality', will want to own this book. It is a must for all academic collections dealing with Israel Studies and for most Jewish high schools and synagogues. This reader highly recommends this rich book."—AJL Reviews

• Preface: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan TroenIntroduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized / S. Ilan TroenPart 1. Historical Issues1. Telling the Story of a Hebrew City / Yaacov Shavit2. Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929–1959 / Maoz Azaryahu3. Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective / Hizky Shoham4. From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks / Yoram Bar-Gal5. Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv / Tammy Razi6. Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source / Anat Helman7. South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa—The Frontier Zone of "In Between" / Deborah S. Bernstein8. Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story / Nahum Karlinsky9. Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability / Orit RozinPart 2. Language, Literature, and Art10. Tel-Aviv Language Police / Zohar Shavit11. Der Eko Fun Goles: "The Spirit of Tel-Aviv" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History / Barbara Mann12. A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems / Aminadav Dykman13. Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv / Rachel Harris14. Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv / Dalia ManorPart 3. Planning and Architecture15. The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes / Volker M. Welter16. Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv / Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian17. Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics / Carolin Aronis18. The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor / Alona Nitzan-ShiftanAfterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis / Maoz AzaryahuContributorsIndex