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Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
Tel Aviv was founded on land purchased from Bedouins, north of the existing city of Jaffa. This photograph is of 1909 auction of the first lots. The book was immediately translated into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolow, who gave it the poetic title "Tel Aviv", using tel ('ancient mound') for 'old' and aviv ('spring') for 'new'. [10]
Aviv is a Hebrew male and female name. The feminine version of the name is Aviva. [11] Aviv is also an old and uncommon [11] Russian Christian male given name "Ави́в" (Aviv), that possibly borrowed from Biblical Hebrew, where it derived from the word abīb, meaning an ear or a time of year where grains come into ear, [12] also known as "Aviv" (or Nisan—the first month of the Hebrew ...
English: Tel Aviv, first Hebrew translation of Altneuland, translated by Nahum Sokolow and printed by HaTzfira in Warsaw, 1902. Date: 1902: Source:
Tel Aviv, the Hebrew word for "Spring Mound" (where "spring" is the season), is a city in Israel. It may also refer to: "Tel Aviv", an instrumental on Duran Duran; Tel Aviv District, a district of Israel; Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in Israel
Israeli youngsters are reading about Adolf Eichmann's trial, on HaOlam HaZeh, 1964, Tel-Aviv. HaOlam HaZeh (Hebrew: העולם הזה, lit. This World) was a weekly news magazine published in Israel until 1993. The magazine was founded in 1937 under the name Tesha BaErev (Hebrew: תשע בערב, Nine in the Evening) but was renamed HaOlam ...
Rubinstein Building (Hebrew: בית רובינשטיין) is a landmark skyscraper in Tel Aviv, Israel. The building was named after its developer, Rubinstein and Company. It was designed by Freiberger Architects. Under Aryeh Freiberger, construction began in 1998 and was completed in 1999.
In many English translations of the Bible, Yavne was known as Jabneh / ˈ dʒ æ b n ə /. In Greek and Latin-speaking sources, it was known as Jamnia (Ancient Greek: Ἰαμνία Iamníā; Latin: Iamnia). Under Late Roman and Byzantine rule, it had a mixed population of Christians, Jews, and Samaritans.