Family album: 1920s and '30s in Land of Israel
The Tulchinsky family immigrated from Odessa in 1906, settled in Jaffa, helped found Tel Aviv and then took part in the development of Haifa's commercial centers after being banished to the north by the Turks. Ynet brings you a selection of the families photos
Upon their arrival in Jaffa in 1906, Odessa natives Baruch and Ita Tulchinsky joined the Ahuzat Bait Association, whose 66 members founded Tel Aviv.
In 1917 the Turks banished the Tel Aviv residents to the north, and the Tulchinsky family settled in the Colony of Bat Shlomo. They returned to their Tel Aviv home with the conclusion of World War One.
In 1922 they family relocated to Haifa, where Baruch purchased a building on what is now the corner of Nathanson and Dovrin streets in the port area - also known as the lower city.
The ground floor was rented out to small business owners, the second floor contained offices, a school and apartments, while the family lived on the top floor.
Baruch joined a group of entrepreneurs who developed the commercial center in the lower city in the area between Eliyahu, Ha'atzmaut Nathanson and Chiat streets with the aim of opening businesses there to serve the port, which was constructed shortly thereafter.
A few years later the entrepreneurs developed yet another commercial center, west of Banks Road.
Yisrael Tulchinsky took several photos of family events. His grandson, Ami Yuval (changed his last name in memory of a cousin who died during the War of Independence battle at Metzudat Yesha) kept the photos. A selection of these pictures is presented here.
1. In 1925, Ita's brother and his wife visited Israel. The brother was the manager of a Russian bank's branch in Istanbul. During the visit, they traveled across the country. In the photo: Taxi driver Tony, a Christian Arab from Haifa who drove them around. The photo was taken near the buildings of the university opened on April 1, 1925.
2. At the entrance to a building in the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus
3. They later arrived at the Dead Sea beach
4. A luxurious house in the city of Bethlehem
5. The Tomb of Rachel on Efrat Road
6. Relaxing on deck chair on the balcony of Porodovsky's home (a relative) in Afula, 1930s
7. A trip to the church on Mount Tabor
8. On a trip to Metula, parking near a Bedouins' tent, 1930
9. At the old commercial center. The beach was very close to the commercial center buildings. The port had yet to be built and the shoreline had yet to be dried up.
10. Tzipora near an ad for a Rudolph Valentino film: "For students and unemployed people, a ticket for 2 Egyptian pennies."
11. Girl stands on railway connecting the commercial center and the beach, before the port was built. A part of the sea was dried up upon the port's establishment in the 1930s. The railway was moved near the port docks on the dried up part.
12. A sight of Haifa from Mount Carmel, at the 'Abbas Effendi Garden' which later developed into the Bahai Gardens, 1930
13. The coast of Haifa Bay, before the port was built
14. Singer sewing machine agency in Haifa, 1929
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