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Abu-Lughod, Janet, 140 adloyada (Purim celebration), 23, 221 aerial views, 70, 225–26, 232, 278, 284, 288, 375f18.1, 400f18.19 “After Eating” [in Tel-Aviv: Poema (Joffe)], 226 Agadati, Baruch, 50 Agnon, Shmuel (S. Y.), xvi, 5, 61, 215 Ahad Ha’am, xvi, 206, 241 Ahad Ha’am Street, 292n35 Ahuzat Bayit: in art, 273, 275, 275f14.3, 276; brochure of, 40; Druyanov on history of, 44; founding of, 4, 5, 37–40, 42, 44, 45, 116, 135n3; Geddes on, 317; in geography textbooks, 69; new Tel-Aviv and, 317; running water system in, 144; sand imagery in foundation myth, 35, 39, 42, 43, 46, 48; Akiva Arieh Weiss, 4, 35, 38, 40, 48, 52. See also land lottery; Tel-Aviv Ahuzot Hahof Company Ltd. (development firm), 382–83, 395 air conditioning, 364–65, 371n41 air quality, 71, 95, 96, 98, 143, 149, 160 Ajami quarter (Jaffa), 49, 148, 153, 155 Alexandria, Egypt, 148, 149 Allenby St., 106, 226, 241, 319, 383 Almogi, Yosef, 383 Index Abraham Soskin’s photograph of the land lottery appears on page 270. Alterman, Natan, 224, 231, 234n34, 237, 241, 406, 408 Altneuland (Herzl), xiii–xiv, xxii, xxiv, 216, 220, 225 American artists, 279, 286 “Americaniada,” 23 Americanization of Israel, 71–72, 252–53, 255 Amit, Yehoshua, 389 Angerer, Fred, 383, 389f18.11, 390f8.12a, 391f8.12b Angerer and Branca redevelopment plan for Manshiya, 383, 389f18.11, 390f8.12a, 391f8.12b Anglo-Palestine Company, 47, 48–49, 145 anniversary commemorations: art work for, 276; criticism of, 25–26; as cultural production of the city, 13–14; cultural projects in honor of, 22–23, 25, 26, 28–29; fairs linked with, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 49–50; fifteenth anniversary, 43; Lag Ba’omer coinciding with Silver Jubilee, 22–23; literary publications, 21, 26, 46–47; Meir Dizengoff present at, 14–15, 16, 23–26, 30, 46, 50–51; as new tradition, 16–17, 21–22, 23; nostalgia , 23, 29; Passover linked with, 422 Index 14, 17, 18, 35; press coverage of, 20, 25–26, 30, 50; public works projects in honor of, 28; representatives of Jewish Diaspora present at, 23, 26; significance of, 34–35; Tel-Aviv as cosmopolitan city, 410; Tel-Aviv Day, 14, 15f2.1, 16, 17–18, 20, 47, 51; twentieth anniversary, 14–16, 15f2.1, 18–21, 46–48, 50 Antiquities Department, 332, 333 anti-Semitism, 25, 228–29, 231 APK [Anglo-Palestine company bank], 47, 48–49 An Arab Neighborhood in Tel-Aviv (Rubin ), 274 Arab population: Arab-Jewish contact in border neighborhoods, 121–24; boy street gangs’ ties with, 86; films for “Arab-speakers,” 84, 86; in geography textbooks, 64, 69; impact of municipal partition on, 120; in Jerusalem , xxvi–xxvii; in labor force, 38, 64, 145, 256; leisure visits to TelAviv , 123, 124, 125; out-migration to Tel-Aviv, 120; reunification of Jewish and Arab sections of Jerusalem , 393–96, 394f18.14; in Yiddish literature, 225, 226 Arab Rebellion (1936–1939), 127, 131, 136n30, 152 Arabic language, 192 Arab-Jewish relations: in art community , 276, 292n27; border crossings, 86, 87, 121–26, 124; in border neighborhoods , 121–24; infrastructure construction, xx; leisure visits to Tel-Aviv, 123, 124, 125; in the marketplace , 95, 122; in Ottoman Jaffa, 140; in pre-1948 Palestine, 138–39; in urban centers, 138–39; and youth culture of Tel-Aviv, xix, 78, 84, 86–87 Arab-Jews (use of term), 87 Aran, Gideon, 282–83 architecture: building construction in Geddes plan, 308, 309f15.2, 310f15.3; communal ideal in construction of, 257; competitions for redevelopment of Manshiya, 374, 383–84, 385f18.6, 386f18.7, 387–89, 387f18.8, 388f18.9, 388f18.10, 389, 389f18.11, 390–91, 392–93, 392f18.13, 398, 400; of Dizengoff Center, 253, 266n18; Eclectic Style, 223, 338, 339, 354–55, 355f17.4; emigré architects in construction of national home, 313, 314, 378; Expressionist “city crown” concepts , 313–14; Functional Building Style (Art Deco), 356; of Old Jaffa, 333, 334; Oriental Style, 338; preservation initiatives, 283, 340–41; skyscrapers, xvii, 61, 72, 288, 392; and the State of Tel-Aviv movement , 397–98, 397f18.16, 398f18.17; Tel-Aviv–Jaffa unification reflected in, 381–82, 401. See also balconies; Bauhaus school; International Style; urban renewal / urban unification; the White City Arlozoroff, Chaim, 196, 311, 318 art and artists: abstract trends in, 279; ambivalence toward the city, 286– 87; American influences, 279, 286; artists identifying with Tel-Aviv, 278, 280–81, 282; “assisted readymade ,” 279, 293n49; Bezalel...