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Tel-Aviv, the first century : visions, designs, actualities / edited by Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen

Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
xxvii, 449 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Azaryahu, Maoz and Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940-

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 HISTORICAL ISSUES -- 1.Telling the Story of a Hebrew City / Yaacov Shavit -- 2.Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929--1959 / Maoz Azaryahu -- 3.Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective / Hizky Shoham -- 4.From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks / Yoram Bar-Gal -- 5.Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv / Tammy Razi -- 6.Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source / Anat Helman -- 7.South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa---The Frontier Zone of "In Between" / Deborah S. Bernstein -- 8.Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story / Nahum Karlinsky -- 9.Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability / Orit Rozin -- pt. 2 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ART -- 10.Tel-Aviv Language Police / Zohar Shavit -- 11.Der Eko Fun Goles: "The Spirit of Tel-Aviv" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History / Barbara Mann -- 12.A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems / Aminadav Dykman -- 13.Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv / Rachel S. Harris -- 14.Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv / Dalia Manor -- pt. 3 PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE -- 15.The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes / Volker M. Welter -- 16.Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv / Roy Fabian -- 17.Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics / Carolin Aronis -- 18.The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.
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ISBN
9780253356949 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253356946 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253223579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253223571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Betty Hein Libraries Program Endowment in Jewish Studies; 2011.
Endowment Note
Betty Hein Libraries Program Endowment in Jewish Studies
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