A collection of photographs documenting the construction of the Nordia neighborhood of Tel Aviv - 1934

A collection of photographs documenting the construction of the Nordia neighborhood of Tel Aviv - 1934

15 rare photographs documenting Workers and construction in the Nordia neighborhood in the 1930s. among them, group photographs of Workers, and workers at work. Tel Aviv [1934].

Among the photos: A group photograph of workers from different countries holding the tools, laying the basics for a building, Hebrew workers in a group photograph standing on a tractor, engineer alongside workers on the front of a building, a group photograph showing workers holding the dig tools, laying foundations in a ditch near a New building, and more.

The first settlers in the Nordia neighborhood of Tel Aviv were in fact survivors of the Jaffa riots in 1921 who sought to find a safe place in nearby Tel Aviv. They were incorporated into the 'Homelessness Association', which founded private homes on land purchased by the Israel National Fund. It was the first (and almost only) neighborhood in Tel Aviv founded on the JNF land. The neighborhood officially established on Tu B'Shvat in 1922 was named 'Nordia' after the Zionist leader Max Nordau. In its early years, it was a Barracks neighborhood of hundreds of families. In the 1930s and 1940s, low-cost Eastern European settlements were settled in the neighborhood, which came due to the low cost of living there. At the end of 1970, only about 10 Barracks were left. And about two years later, the Dizengoff Center project on the place

Same size: 9x14 cm. overall good - very good condition.