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Author LeVine, Mark, 1966-

Title Overthrowing geography : Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948 / Mark LeVine
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 442 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Modern Cities, Colonial Spaces, and the Struggle for Modernity in the Eastern Mediterranean -- From Cedars to Oranges: A History of the Jaffa -Tel Aviv Region from Antiquity to the Late Ottoman Period -- Taming the Sahara: The Birth of Tel Aviv and the Last Years of Ottoman Rule -- Crossing the Border: Intercommunal Relations in the Jaffa -Tel Aviv Region during the Mandate Period -- A Nation from the Sands? Images of Jaffa and Tel Aviv in Palestinian Arab, Zionist, and Israeli Literature, Poetry, and Prose -- Ceci N'est Pas Jaffa (This Is Not Jaffa): Architecture, Planning, and the Evolution of National Identities in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1880 -1948 -- Planning to Conquer: The Role of Town Planning in the Expansion of Tel Aviv, 1921 -1948 -- The New-Old Jaffa: Locating the Urban, the Public, and the Modern in Tel Aviv's Arab Neighborhood
Summary Annotation This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there.<br />At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv-Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-416) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject City planning -- Israel -- Tel Aviv
Cities and towns -- Israel -- History
Architecture -- Israel
Jews -- Colonization -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Architecture
Cities and towns
City planning
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Colonization
Literature
Electronic books.
SUBJECT Tel Aviv (Israel) -- History -- 20th century
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) -- History -- 20th century
Palestine -- Ethnic relations
Tel Aviv (Israel) -- In literature
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) -- In literature
Subject Israel
Israel -- Tel Aviv
Israel -- Tel Aviv -- Jaffa
Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004008779
ISBN 9780520938502
052093850X
0520239946
9780520239944
0520243714
9780520243712
1598755374
9781598755374
1417593342
9781417593347
Other Titles Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948