Tel Aviv after 100: Notes toward a New Cultural History

In the wake of Tel Aviv's centennial in 2009, it seems an appropriate moment to attempt to tell not simply the story of the city but the story of its story-its historiography. In the past decade or so, academic scholarship and popular writing about Tel Aviv, including fiction and memoir, have been particularly concerned with questions of space and place. In this article, I address this spatial preoccupation in light of contemporary critical theory and a comprehensive review of recent cultural scholarship about the city.