Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930 : A Memoir, Hardcover by Chelouche, Yos...

by Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche

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Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1 : A Memoir, Hardcover by Chelouche, Yosef Eliyahu; Campos, Michelle U. (EDT); Aleksandrowicz, or (EDT), ISBN 1684583012, ISBN-13 9781684583010, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation. Born in Jaffa in 1870, Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche grew up within a notable Sephardi family in the local Jewish community. He went on to become a prominent entrepreneur; a founder of Tel Aviv; and a fierce critic of the Ashkenazi Zionist leadership, Arab nationalism, and British colonial sectarianism; before emerging, in the last decade of his life, as an anguished public figure struggling to repair Arab-Jewish relations. His memoir paints an intimate portrait of life in Palestine at the turn of the twentieth century, told from the perspective of a Middle Eastern Jew deeply embedded in local society. By centering on the world and experiences of a native Jew who was an eyewitness to and participant in the unfolding conflict in Palestine, this book shows how the course of Zionist politics and Jewish-Arab relations in pre-state Palestine might have taken alternative pathways. A comprehensive introduction sets the scene in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Jaffa and thoughtful annotations contextualize Chelouche’s story within the modern history of Palestine and Israel. Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870–1930 tells the fascinating story of a civic lead

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Year: 1870
• ISBN: 9781684583010
• Condition: Fine

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