{"product_id":"between-jaffa-and-tel-aviv-1870-1930-a-memoir-9781684582563","title":"Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe literary memoir of a founder of Tel Aviv, now available for the first time in an annotated English translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eBetween Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930\u003c\/i\u003e tells the fascinating story of a civic leader--and offers a complex view of the various cultural, social, and political forces that forged multilayered Jewish identities in the Middle East. The book includes a family tree and is illustrated with photographs of the family and scenes of Jaffa and early Tel Aviv.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYosef Eliyahu Chelouche\u003c\/b\u003e (1870-1934) was a prominent builder, entrepreneur, public figure, and founder of Tel Aviv. \u003cb\u003eMichelle U. Campos\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of late Ottoman Palestine, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eOttoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eOr Aleksandrowicz\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is an architectural and urban historian and serves as the chief editor of the Architectures book series at Babel Publishers. Aleksandrowicz is also a descendant of Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brandeis University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890469175570,"sku":"9781684582563","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0462999-0dd8-4f05-8639-10c2e8faa382.jpg?v=1771335422","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/between-jaffa-and-tel-aviv-1870-1930-a-memoir-9781684582563","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}