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Tel Aviv: From Dream to City
Joachim Schlor
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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.
In Tel Aviv - From Dream to City Joachim Schlör brings the reader closer to this ‘most talked about city.’ The author interviewed numerous inhabitants and gathered information from books, travel accounts, newspaper articles and memoirs. He looks at the city from its origins right up to the present: Tel Aviv as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant’s mother country; as a catalyst between East and West; and - not least - as a place of transformation for Jews who fled the Nazi terror.
In Tel Aviv - From Dream to City Joachim Schlör brings the reader closer to this ‘most talked about city.’ The author interviewed numerous inhabitants and gathered information from books, travel accounts, newspaper articles and memoirs. He looks at the city from its origins right up to the present: Tel Aviv as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant’s mother country; as a catalyst between East and West; and - not least - as a place of transformation for Jews who fled the Nazi terror.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Reaktion Books London
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Topographics
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861890337
SKU
V9781861890337
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Joachim Schlor
Joachim Schlör is a cultural historian based at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Nights in the Big City (Reaktion, 1998, New Edition 2016) and Tel Aviv: From Dream to City (Reaktion, 1999).
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.