Tel Aviv Stories

Tel Aviv is a place of contradiction an urban dream of the Middle East where sleek European cafes sit beneath stone minarets; where Berlin-style hipsters sip coffee next to black-hatted rabbis; where charity sex conflict and controversy overflow the streets. In Tel Aviv Stories Israels White City is revealed. Through a tale of city madness in Spinoza Street and the beggars comedy On Allenby; telling the secrets of an urban witch in White Hair Woman and showing the still-life of a young immigrant family in Mother Father Child; in the tragedy of twinhood in the novella Rivkah & Rebecca and by tracing the footsteps of a lost life in Little Old Lady With the Flowers; and in a personal story of exile in Night of Grief author Ashley Rindsberg gives outsiders entrée into a strange world of Russian street virtuosos flower selling whores polyglot bums and the Backwards Rabbi as well as the middle-class immigrants and children of wealth who people Israels tangled urban heart.