{"product_id":"tel-aviv-the-first-century-visions-designs-actualities-paperback-softback-9780253223579","title":"Tel-Aviv, the First Century; Visions, Designs, Actualities (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253223579","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTel-Aviv, the First Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVisions, Designs, Actualities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaoz Azaryahu (Edited by), S. Ilan Troen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253223579\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages, 45 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A much needed volume, bringing a range of perspectives to bear on the understudied center of Israeli cultural and commercial life.\"—Sara R. Horowitz, \u003ci\u003eYork University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Colorado at Boulder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The essays are stimulating and original.\"—\u003ci\u003eCanadian Jewish News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eH-Judaic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eAJL Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTel-Aviv, the First Century\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized \/ S. Ilan Troen\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Historical Issues\u003cbr\u003e 1. Telling the Story of a Hebrew City \/ Yaacov Shavit\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929–1959 \/ Maoz Azaryahu\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective \/ Hizky Shoham\u003cbr\u003e 4. From \"European Oasis\" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks \/ Yoram Bar-Gal\u003cbr\u003e 5. Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv \/ Tammy Razi\u003cbr\u003e 6. Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source \/ Anat Helman\u003cbr\u003e 7. South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa—The Frontier Zone of \"In Between\" \/ Deborah S. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e 8. Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story \/ Nahum Karlinsky\u003cbr\u003e 9. Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability \/ Orit Rozin\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Language, Literature, and Art\u003cbr\u003e 10. Tel-Aviv Language Police \/ Zohar Shavit\u003cbr\u003e 11. Der Eko Fun Goles: \"The Spirit of Tel-Aviv\" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History \/ Barbara Mann\u003cbr\u003e 12. A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems \/ Aminadav Dykman\u003cbr\u003e 13. Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv \/ Rachel Harris\u003cbr\u003e 14. Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv \/ Dalia Manor\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Planning and Architecture\u003cbr\u003e 15. The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes \/ Volker M. Welter\u003cbr\u003e 16. Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv \/ Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian\u003cbr\u003e 17. Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics \/ Carolin Aronis\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor \/ Alona Nitzan-Shiftan\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis \/ Maoz Azaryahu\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676689264920,"sku":"9780253223579","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tel-aviv-the-first-century-visions-designs-actualities-paperback-softback-9780253223579","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}