Adam LeBor - City of Oranges
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The millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the Bride of Palestine, one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, worked, and celebrated together and it was commonplace for the Arabs of Jaffa to attend a wedding at the house of the Jewish Chelouche family or for Jews and Arabs to both gather at the Jewish spice shop Tiv and the Arab Khamis Abulafias twenty-four-hour bakery. Through intimate personal interviews and generations-old memoirs, letters, and diaries, Adam LeBor gives us a crucial look at the human lives behind the headlines and a vivid narrative of cataclysmic change.
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A new edition of this highly acclaimed history of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa, with a major new afterword.
The ancient port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the Bride of Palestine. It was one of the great cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. Once the centre of Palestinian modernity, Jaffa was the countrys cultural and political capital. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, worked, and celebrated together. It was commonplace for the Arabs of Jaffa to attend a wedding at the house of the Jewish Chelouche family and even after 1948 Jews and Arabs gathered at the Jewish-owned spice shop Tiv and the Arab Abulafia familys twenty-four-hour bakery.
Through intimate personal interviews and memoirs, letters, and diaries, Adam LeBor gives us a crucial insight into the human lives behind the apparently intractable story of national conflict and a vivid narrative of cataclysmic change. LeBor deftly weaves the personal story of six families, three Jewish and three Arab, into a rich and complex history of Israel and Palestine in the twentieth century.
In a special updated afterword, LeBor returns to Jaffa after ten years to find a city greatly changed by gentrification, demolition and waves of new incomers. Rising prices have scattered communities. The exodus of Jaffas Arabs continues. But with all the changes, the desire for integration endures. LeBors magnificent history is a story of hope found in the memories of the Levants once dazzling mosaic of cultures and communities.
For my mother, Brenda LeBor
Two important phenomena, of the same nature but opposed, are emerging at this moment in Asiatic Turkey. They are the awakening of the Arab nation and the latent efforts of the Jews to reconstitute on a very large scale the ancient kingdom of Israel. These movements are destined to fight each other continually until one of them wins.
Arab writer Najib Azouri,
Le Reveil de la Nation Arabe , 1905
ABULAFIA | |
Khamis | Director of the Abulafia bakery, journalist |
ABOU-SHEHADE | |
Ismail | Fisherman in Jaffa port during the 1960s |
Sami | Grandson of Ismail, postgraduate student at Tel Aviv University |
AHARONI | |
Yoram | Born Yaakov Yosefov in Bulgaria, former member of the Stern Group, owner of Tiv spice and coffee shop, father of Ofer |
Rina | Wife of Yoram, former Stern Group member |
Ofer | Lives in Jaffa, veteran of 1973 and 1982 wars |
ALBO | |
Sami | Born in Turkey, Jaffa Jewish community activist |
ANDRAUS | |
Amin (elder) | Leader of Jaffas Arabs after 1948, businessman |
Leila | Eldest daughter of Amin Andraus, administrator at Tabeetha School |
Salim | Son of Amin Andraus, retired accountant |
Wedad | Middle daughter of Amin Andraus, teacher at Tabeetha School |
Suad | Youngest daughter of Amin Andraus, British pro-consul |
Amin (younger) | Grandson of above, lawyer in Tel Aviv |
Robyn (Amina) | Sister of Amin (younger), teacher in Jaffa |
CHELOUCHE | |
Avraham | Founder of the Chelouche dynasty in Jaffa. Father of Aharon, Rica, Hannah |
Aharon (elder) | Jeweller and money-changer in late nineteenth-century Jaffa. Father of Yaakov, Yosef Eliyahu and Avraham Haim |
Aharon | Former dean of students at Tel Aviv University, great-grandson of above |
Avraham Haim | Father of David, Marco, Zaki and Simha |
David | Son of Avraham Haim Chelouche, husband of Julia |
Edith | Daughter of David and Julia Chelouche |
Jacob | Son of Shlomo, lives in Tel Aviv |
Julia ( ne Bohbout) | Wife of David Chelouche, mother of Edith |
Yaakov | Treasurer of Anglo-Palestine Bank in early twentieth century, father of Shlomo and Gabriel |
Shlomo | Organiser of emigration to Israel of Moroccan Jews, son of Yaakov |
Mary (ne Hayon) | Wife of Shlomo |
Yosef Eliyahu | Brother of Yaakov and Avraham Haim, husband of Freha, father of seven children. Businessman and community leader |
Zaki | Architect in 1930s Tel Aviv |
Marco | Brother of Zaki |
Pomrock, Simha ( ne Chelouche) | Wife of Yosef, mother of Zvi |
Pomrock, Yosef | Husband of Simha Chelouche, father of Zvi |
Pomrock, Zvi | Chelouche family archivist, son of Simha Chelouche and Yosef Pomrock |
GEDAY | |
Youssef Kamel | Pharmacist from old Jaffa family, father of Fakhri |
Fakhri | Pharmacist, son of Youssef Kamel |
HAMMAMI | |
Shaker | Textile merchant in early twentieth-century Jaffa, father of Ahmad, grandfather of Hasan |
Ahmad Shaker | Worked in citrus industry, left Jaffa in 1948 with wife Nafise and nine children including Hasan, Mustafa and Fadwa |
Nafise ( ne Shattila) | Wife of Ahmad |
Hasan | Former manager with Procter & Gamble, lives in Florida, father of Rema |
Mustafa | Brother of Hasan, lives in Toronto |
Hasna, Fadwa ( ne Hammami) | Sister of Hasan, widow of Suleiman Fadwa, lives in East Jerusalem |
Rema | Professor of anthropology at Bir Zeit University, Palestinian Territories |
Said | PLO ambassador to London, assassinated 1978, cousin of Hasan |
MEISLER | |
Frank | Born in Danzig, architect and sculptor |
Michal | Daughter of Frank |
OTHERS | |
Moyal, Mazal | Grandmother of Julia Chelouche |
Nachmias, Yoseph | Irgun veteran of the April 1948 battle for Jaffa |
Topaz, Moris |
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