Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Tel Aviv: From Dream to City
Joachim Schlor
€ 47.51
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Tel Aviv: From Dream to City
Paperback. A history of Tel Aviv which presents it as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant's mother country; as a catalyst between the East and the West; and, not least, as a place of transformation for Jews who fled from the Nazi terror. Translator(s): Atkins, Helen. Series: Topographics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 colour and 52 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 756.
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 as a modern garden suburb of Jaffa, and now forms the gateway to Israel, embracing an abundance of cultures, languages and life-styles. At the same time, it is the first modern Hebrew city, a laboratory for the Jewish state, and therefore the centre of Israel's new cultural identity. Based on interviews with many inhabitants, and on information gathered from books, travel literature, newspaper articles and memoirs, this is an account of the city from its origins to the present. Tel Aviv is presented as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant's ... Read more
Tel Aviv was established in 1909 as a modern garden suburb of Jaffa, and now forms the gateway to Israel, embracing an abundance of cultures, languages and life-styles. At the same time, it is the first modern Hebrew city, a laboratory for the Jewish state, and therefore the centre of Israel's new cultural identity. Based on interviews with many inhabitants, and on information gathered from books, travel literature, newspaper articles and memoirs, this is an account of the city from its origins to the present. Tel Aviv is presented as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Reaktion Books London
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Topographics
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861890337
SKU
V9781861890337
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Tel Aviv: From Dream to City
`I have seen no other book that describes this extraordinary city so well.' - Architectural Review `Schlor's book... is the history Tel Aviv has bee waiting for.' - Guardian.