Tel Aviv Street

1910

Photograph of city street.

In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest theories about hygiene and aesthetics. Land was purchased on the outskirts of Jaffa, and in 1909, the new community, today Tel Aviv (“Hill of Spring,” from Ezekiel 3:15), was formally established. Within a year, streets were laid out, water pipes installed, and sixty-six houses built. Many of the buildings were modeled on those in imperial cities in Eastern Europe, such as Odessa and Moscow. The large building seen here at the end of the street was the Herzliya Gymnasium (high school), designed by Joseph Barsky (1876–1943), who took his inspiration from Charles Chipiez’s 1889 imaginary model of the First Temple in Jerusalem.

Credits

ID 838-064, National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography Department Government Press Office / Wikimedia Commons.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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