{"product_id":"9781684582556","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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Brandeis University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47560522301681,"sku":"9781684582556","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781684582556_p0.jpg?v=1766424312","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781684582556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}