If There Is No Jerusalem: Essays on Hebrew Writing in a Cultural-Political Context
Dan Miron
1987
During the century from the beginnings of the Yishuv Hadash [Modern Zionist Settlement] until the present, the competition between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has played a critical role. Although Tel Aviv was founded only seventy-five years ago, the competition began before its founding. At least from the beginning of the Second Aliyah the rocky…
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