Tel Aviv History

Last Updated: 14-Sep-2012

Highlights of the extensive resources on the history of Tel Aviv at Stanford University Libraries and beyond.

Subject Librarians

Zachary Baker, in the outdoor passageway between Green Library and the School of Education.

Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development - Humanities and Social Sciences, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections

Cecil H. Green Library

(650) 725-1054

zbaker@stanford.edu

Anna M Levia

Assistant Curator, Judaica & Hebraica Collections

Cecil H. Green Library

(650) 736-1306

amlevia@stanford.edu

Subjects

Jewish studies

Hebraica

Judaica

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Selected Special Collections resources on Tel Aviv

Special collections materials are stored off campus and must be requested at least two business days ahead of use. For complete information please visit the Special Collections website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html

Over a period of close to 40 years Eliasaf Robinson, one of the most prominent antiquarian booksellers in Israel, collected books, pamphlets, journals, documents, photographs, posters, maps, architectural plans, and ephemera relating to the early history of the "First Hebrew City," Tel Aviv. The collection includes several Ottoman land deeds (kushans) for lots purchased in 1909 by the first Jewish settlers, who built Tel Aviv as a new Jewish suburb outside of the Arab city of Jaffa.
Taken as a whole, these materials provide invaluable documentation on the political, economic, and cultural development of the Israeli metropolis during its formative decades.