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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Editors' Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
List of Figures
Editors' Introduction
Parashat Hayay: The Translated Memoir
Forward
Part I
Chapter 1: Days of My Infancy, Childhood, and Youth
Chapter 2: The Kidnapping of Yosef
Chapter 3: My Earliest Life Experiences; The First Pioneers
Chapter 4: My School Days in Beirut
Chapter 5: My engagement, and my father-in-law Rabbi Avraham Moyal
Chapter 6: My wedding, and my entry into the world of commerce
Chapter 7: In the days of the Turkish regime
Chapter 8: Visits to our home by famous people
Chapter 9: Between building and destruction
Chapter 10: Founding of Tel Aviv and construction of the Gymnasium
Chapter 11: New Company and The Shield association
Chapter 12: The silicate initiative, my dream - and those for whom it came true
Part II
Chapter 13: Beginning of the World War
Chapter 14: The days of Ottomanization and the cruel expulsion of the foreign subjects
Chapter 15: The final days in power of Baha al-Din and the audience with Djemal Pasha
Chapter 16: Days of hunger in the land
Chapter 17: The Expulsion of Jaffa and Tel Aviv
Chapter 18: A terrifying night in deserted Jaffa and more...
Chapter 19: The entry of the English into Petah Tikva, and their departure
Chapter 20: And they journeyed and encamped in the village of Qalqilya
Chapter 21: From Qalqilya to Kafr Jammal
Chapter 22: Informers, the Turkish government and kindly Arabs
Chapter 23: Imprisoned in Tulkarm, and once again in Kafr Jammal
Chapter 24: The arrival of the redeemers and conquerors of our country
Chapter 25: Following the Balfour Declaration, days of light and shadow
Chapter 26: Bloody clashes in Jaffa, May 1921
Chapter 27: The neighborly relations that broke down
Chapter 28: My work on behalf of building and expanding Tel Aviv
Chapter 29: The bloody riots of August 1929, and their aftermath
Epilogue
Chelouche Family Tree
Bibliography
