Place in History - Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space

Informationen zum Autor Barbara E. Mann is Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the co-editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Klappentext "While her love for Tel Aviv is palpable, Mann maintains a critical distance from her subject, which assures A Place in History its own place as an authoritative guide to the complex textualities of Israel's largest urban area."--Tikkun "A Place in History offers a fresh perspective on Tel Aviv, the first Hebrew city, by presenting an imaginative literary walk through symbolic spaces and historic layers. The city unfolds as a cultural landscape of memory and forgetting, a site of political conflict and change, an urban space negotiating global and local aesthetics, the private and the public, the new and the old." --Yael Zerubavel, Director, Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University Zusammenfassung A Place in History is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center and one of the original settlements, established in 1909. The book describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the difficulties and challenges of this endeavor.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Mann, Barbara E Mann, Barbara E. Mann
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780804750196
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5019-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories