Levinski Market
Historic covered market street of spice stalls, Balkan bakeries and delicatessens founded by Greek Jewish refugees.
This guide to Levinski Market in Tel Aviv begins with a kitchen fire that tore through the Jewish quarter of Thessaloniki in August 1917, leaving tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews homeless. You'll hear how a group of those displaced merchants resettled in south Tel Aviv in the late 1920s, building a neighborhood designed to turn refugees into shopkeepers overnight, and how word of their spice trade drew Turkish, Bulgarian, and Persian newcomers after them. The guide follows one of the market's oldest delicatessens back to its founder. Best heard slowly, following your nose down the row of stalls.
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