Neve Shalom, Tel Aviv

Neve Shalom (lit. Dwelling place of peace) is an historic neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1890 outside the walls of Jaffa[1] and named after Isaiah 32:18: "My people will live in a dwelling place of peace."

History

Neve Shalom was the second Jewish neighborhood built outside Jaffa in the 19th century, after Neve Tzedek.[2] It was located to the east of Manshiya.[3] The neighborhood was built in the same style as Neve Tzedek: low-rise buildings with red tiled roofs and decorative arched windows. The streets were narrow, with no clear separation between residential and industrial areas.[4]

One of the first public institutions, built in 1895, was Sha'arei Torah (lit. 'Gates of the Torah'), the beit midrash of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, which included a synagogue, a primary school, a high school and craft workshops. In addition to religious studies, the students learned carpentry and metalwork.[5]

In 1905, Rabbi Kook's brother-in-law, Raphael Rabinowitz-Teomim, established a girls' school that became an important center of Hebrew culture and language-learning.[6] In the wake of financial hardship and serious damage in 1948, the site was abandoned.[7]

In the early 1990s Neve Shalom was saved from demolition by proactive preservation activists.[8]

References
  1. History, unprotected from developers, Haaretz
  2. A Walk in the Historic Neighborhoods of Little Tel Aviv
  3. Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities, edited by Maoz Azaryahu, Selwyn Ilan Troen
  4. Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872-1908, Johann Büssow
  5. Preservation trumps residences in Neve Tzedek, Globes
  6. History, unprotected from developers. Noam Dvir for Haaretz, 28 Oct 2009. Re-accessed 27 Dec 2021.
  7. Preservation trumps residences in Neve Tzedek, Globes
  8. A Walk in the Historic Neighborhoods of Little Tel Aviv

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