"Tel-Aviv": (with its) back to the sea? An excursion into jewish maritime studies
"Tel-Aviv": (with its) back to the sea? An excursion into jewish maritime studies
A “mock trial” charging “the Jewish people” with a “lack of seamanship” was organized by the Zevulun Seafaring Society in the city of Tel-Aviv on 19 May 1938. This curious event forms the starting point for a discussion of the role of the sea and the port for the images and self-images of Tel Aviv, both in the 1930s and today. The city on the Mediterranean built its first streets and houses a hundred years ago, “with its back to the sea”. The small garden suburb of Jaffa reached the shore only after World War I and the establishment of the British Mandate. In 1936, when the port of Jaffa was closed in protest against increasing Jewish immigration, Tel Aviv opened its own harbour: Sha'ar Zion, the gateway to Zion. Has it also become a port city? And (how) do the characteristics of a port city challenge Tel Aviv's image as an exclusively Jewish and Hebrew city?
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Schloer, Joachim
bb73c4ae-2ef4-44ba-b889-b319afb40b03
July 2009
Schloer, Joachim
bb73c4ae-2ef4-44ba-b889-b319afb40b03
Schloer, Joachim
(2009)
"Tel-Aviv": (with its) back to the sea? An excursion into jewish maritime studies.
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 8 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/14725880902949601).
Abstract
A “mock trial” charging “the Jewish people” with a “lack of seamanship” was organized by the Zevulun Seafaring Society in the city of Tel-Aviv on 19 May 1938. This curious event forms the starting point for a discussion of the role of the sea and the port for the images and self-images of Tel Aviv, both in the 1930s and today. The city on the Mediterranean built its first streets and houses a hundred years ago, “with its back to the sea”. The small garden suburb of Jaffa reached the shore only after World War I and the establishment of the British Mandate. In 1936, when the port of Jaffa was closed in protest against increasing Jewish immigration, Tel Aviv opened its own harbour: Sha'ar Zion, the gateway to Zion. Has it also become a port city? And (how) do the characteristics of a port city challenge Tel Aviv's image as an exclusively Jewish and Hebrew city?
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