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This article investigates residents' sense of neighborliness in different types of neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv. Five different residential areas were investigated, representing different social classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles. Residents' sense of neighborliness and social restructuring of neighborhoods' characteristics were investigated based on questionnaires. The analysis led to the following conclusions. First, neighborhoods are relevant but relatively marginal in importance to all five groups in Tel-Aviv. Second, all the respondents mentioned the importance of sense of territoriality and social interactions with some others in their neighborhood. Third, two types of neighborhoods have been identified: neighborhoods that are perceived as centers of identification and neighborhoods that are perceived as territorial units of daily services. Fourth, identification with the neighborhood represents the largest variability among neighborhoods, and lower class neighborhoods were assigned relatively low rates of sense of neighborliness.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward Twilight Nationalism -- PART I: SUNSET -- 1. Besieged Nationalism: Fakhri Jday and the Decline of the Elites -- 2. Worn-Out Nationalism: Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the Community's Betrayal -- 3. Surviving Nationalism: Isma'il abu-Shehade and Testimony -- PART II: DUSK -- 4. Circumventing Nationalism: The Hakim Sisters and the Cosmopolitan Experience -- 5. Domesticated Nationalism: Nazihah Asis, a Prisoner of Zion -- 6. Dissolved Nationalism: Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the Critique of the Patriarchal Order -- 7. Overlooking Nationalism: Talia Seckbach-Monterescu In and Out of Place -- PART III: NIGHTFALL -- 8. Suspended Nationalism: Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab Masculinity -- 9. Masking Nationalism: Amram Ben-Yosef on a Tightrope -- 10. Speechless Nationalism: Abu-George on the Edge -- Conclusion: From Identity Politics to Politics of Existence -- Epilogue: Earth to Earth: Posthumous Nationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

In wartime cities become prime objects for attack and sustain different levels of destruction. The increase since the 1990s in the number and scale of violent conflicts has resulted in growing awareness of the devastating aspect of war in urban areas, which now enjoys the coinage "urbicide". It is by far and large the outcome of the shift from research focused on the history and spatiality of armed conflicts, to a moralist-oriented approach based on the political economies and socio-cultural geographies of militarism. Yet, as portrayed in the case of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, it limits the analysis of the variety of effects of war which vary widely due to location, intensity of fighting and prevailing social, cultural and economic realities.

Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces, qui sont des mondes vécus à part entière. L'article aborde la problématique de la marginalité et du pluralisme dans une ville judéo-arabe en s'appuyant sur des données d'archive et de terrain. Il ne fait pas de cette ville un espace unidimensionnel d'hyperségrégation mais un lieu de marginalité créative, qui conteste paradoxalement l'hégémonie des nationalistes, qu'ils soient palestiniens ou sionistes. En examinant de quelle façon l'altérité se manifeste au quotidien, les auteurs montrent que c'est précisément la marginalité et l'exclusion qui donne toute sa vitalité à Jaffa, l'une des périphéries urbaines les plus créatives d'Israël.

"Multiethnic cities--where the political "other" is also a neighbor--play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about national identity and challenge the Israeli state's goal of maintaining homogeneous, segregated, and ethnically stable spaces. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, he analyzes everyday interactions, life histories, and uses of space, describing the politics of gentrification and the circumstantial coalitions that define the city. Drawing on key theorists in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and political science he outlines a relational theory of sociality and spatiality"--

Yousef Haikal, a member of one of Jaffa's prominent families, was the town's last elected mayor before the establishment of the State of Israel; "Jaffa as it was" is excerpted from the first volume of Haikal's memoirs, written in Arabic, as he remembers the life of his family and his town under Ottoman rule and then under the British mandate