Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities

Acknowledgments

vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is based on a PhD dissertation submitted to the Hebrew University ten years ago. I wish to express my gratitude to my teachers, Emmanuel Sivan and Hagit Lavsky, for their inspiring supervision. The primary sources were collected in the Central Zionist Archive, the poster collection at the National Library, the Pinhas Lavon Institute for Labor Movement Research, the Jabotinsky Institute, Bialik House, Kibbutz Afikim library, the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, Ahad Haam Library and Beit Ariela’s journal collection, the Eliasaf Robinson Collection at Stanford University, and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town. Thanks are due to all the librarians, archivists, and workers in these institutions. Special thanks to Ziona Raz, Nellie Verzerevsky, and Rivka Pershel-Gershon of the Tel Aviv–Yafo Municipal Historical Archive. I wish to thank Atalia Helman, Ada Schein, Yael Reshef, Elchanan Reiner, Yael Zerubavel, and Orit Rozin, who read earlier drafts of the book, for all their helpful comments; the staff of the Haifa University Press, which published the Hebrew edition in 2007; the Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute and the Association of Israel Studies, for awarding it the Ben-Shalom prize and the Shapiro prize in 2008. Thanks are also due to Danny Helman for the book’s title. Preparing a book for the Schusterman Series in Israel Studies was a delightful experience. I wish to thank Sylvia Fuks Fried of the Brandeis University Press and Phyllis Deutsch of the University Press of New England, as well as Ilan Troen and Jehuda Reinharz, Jason Warshof, Amanda Dupuis, and Katy Grabill. I am very grateful to Haim Watzman for his attentive and creative translation. YoungTel Aviv ...