Abstract
In this article, I present “neighborhood citizenship” as a crucial element in the consolidation of social identity within the Jewish community during the British Mandate for Palestine. I examine the marginal neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, the citythat emerged as the center of the Yishuv (the country’s organized Jewish community)during the Mandate period, to demonstrate how these neighborhoods functioned as organic social units of identification that motivated civic action. Using the term“neighborhood citizenship,” I argue that local civic activity reflected residents’ identification with their neighborhood space and explains their involvement in the public arena and the struggles they undertook. Furthermore, I show that examining“neighborhood citizenship” through the activities of residents in Tel Aviv’s marginal neighborhoods, particularly the neighborhood committees on the southern and eastern fringes of the city during the 1920s and 1940s, reveals tensions between national identification and national or municipal interests and local identification and civic action that I define as “insurgent citizenship.”
Translated title of the contribution | “Stepdaughters for the Patrons of the City”: Tel Aviv’s Marginal Neighborhoodsas a Key to a Renewed Understanding of the National and Urban Space Duringthe Mandate Period |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Pages (from-to) | 303-322 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | ישראל: כתב עת לחקר הציונות ומדינת ישראל היסטוריה, תרבות, חברה |
Volume | 31-32 |
State | Published - 2024 |
IHP Publications
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- Eretz Israel -- History -- 1917-1948, British Mandate period
- Group identity
- Jewish-Arab relations
- Nationalism
- Neighborhoods
- Neighborhoods -- Israel -- Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Shekhunat ha-Tikvah (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel)
- Social history
- Sociology, Urban
- Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) -- History