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Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930: A Memoir

Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1870-1930: A Memoir

Campos, Michelle U.
Chelouche, Yosef Eliyahu
Aleksandrowicz, Or

Hardcover

Series: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

Biographies GeneralIsrael & Palestine HistoryTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

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ISBN10: 1684583012
ISBN13: 9781684583010
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: Dec 22 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.68 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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 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.

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