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City of Oranges
In two days we will know if the Israeli film: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani will be nominated for an Oscar. For all the people who saw, or will see this awesome movie about the Ajami-neighborhood in Jaffo, I recommand an outstanding book about the Arab-Jewish history of Jaffo: “City of Oranges : Arabs and Jews in Jaffa”, written by Adam LeBor. In 357 pages (with a lot of historical pictures) Adam LeBor writes about the ordinary people and families in Jaffo, who are trying to get on with their lives in the middle of a interminable conflict. … Read entire article »
Filed under: city, history, life, literature
Allenby Street, the book
A must for (Hebrew) readers: Gadi Taub‘s (1965) new novel ‘Allenby‘ (530 pages). Let’s hope there will be an English version soon! … Read entire article »
Filed under: life, literature
Those ugly towers!
Two days ago, I was walking on the Nahalat-Binyamin, one of the loveliest streets in Tel Aviv, with lots of restaurants, bars and twice a week an exciting art market. But the view of this street, with some beautiful buildings from around 1920 is ruined by the ‘sight” of an other ugly high-rise nearby: a part of the so-called “Lev Hair” (Heart of the City) project, ‘designed’ by Adi Karmi (she is the sister of Ram Karmi, who is destroying at this moment the once beautiful Habima-building). Not so long ago, architect and the ‘enfant-terrible’ of the Israeli Architecture, Israel Goodevich, wrote a fantastic book (only in Hebrew) about this high-rise in Tel Aviv, called: “40 x 40″ (200 pages with great color-pictures) … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, books, history, restoration