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Contents Preface: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen ix Introduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized / S. Ilan Troen xi Part 1 Historical Issues 1 Telling the Story of a Hebrew City / Yaacov Shavit 3 2 Tel-Aviv’s Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929–1959 / Maoz Azaryahu 13 3 Tel-Aviv’s Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective / Hizky Shoham 34 4 From “European Oasis” to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks / Yoram Bar-Gal 60 5 Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv / Tammy Razi 77 6 Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source / Anat Helman 94 7 South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa—The Frontier Zone of “In Between” / Deborah S. Bernstein 115 8 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story / Nahum Karlinsky 138 9 Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability / Orit Rozin 165 Part 2 Language, Literature, and Art 10 Tel-Aviv Language Police / Zohar Shavit 191 11 Der Eko Fun Goles: “The Spirit of Tel-Aviv” and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History / Barbara Mann 212 12 A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky’s Tel-Aviv Poems / Aminadav Dykman 236 13 Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv / Rachel S. Harris 248 14 Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv / Dalia Manor 268 Part 3 Planning and Architecture 15 The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes / Volker M. Welter 299 16 Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv / Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian 327 17 Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics / Carolin Aronis 348 18 The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 373 Afterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis / Maoz Azaryahu 406 Contributors 419 Index 421 ...

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