During the 1930s and 1940s, young German-Jewish immigrants in Mandatory Palestine joined forces to build old age homes for the middle-class immigrant elderly from Germany. Acclimatising to the new land was fraught with difficulties. In Germany, these aged individuals were respected figures until they were brutally rejected when the Nazis came to power. The young pioneers of Mandatory Palestine, who struggled to make a living in their new homeland, were worn out by the economic and mental burden of caring for their parents. 1937 marked a first attempt to build a modern old age home. But the idea came into fruition only in 1946, when the Women’s Social Service organisation opened a modern old age home in Tel Aviv. The entrepreneurs and architects involved had all emigrated from Germany. The home’s plans followed German modern architectural and social concepts adapted to the local lifestyle and climate. Presenting new historical facts, this article offers a significant understanding of modernism as a social instrument in Mandatory Palestine. It explores how new ideas transferred from one culture to another, and how these modernist ideas were integrated within the plans of old age homes in Mandatory Palestine.

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照顾父母：巴勒斯坦托管地德国犹太移民的现代住宅

在 1930 年代和 1940 年代，巴勒斯坦托管地的年轻德国犹太移民联手为来自德国的中产阶级移民老人建造养老院。适应新的土地充满了困难。在德国，这些年长的人是受人尊敬的人物，直到纳粹上台时遭到残酷拒绝。巴勒斯坦托管地的年轻先驱们在新的家园努力谋生，因照顾父母的经济和精神负担而筋疲力尽。1937 年标志着第一次尝试建造现代养老院。但这个想法直到 1946 年才实现，当时妇女社会服务组织在特拉维夫开设了一座现代养老院。参与的企业家和建筑师都从德国移民。住宅的规划遵循适应当地生活方式和气候的德国现代建筑和社会概念。这篇文章展示了新的历史事实，对现代主义作为托管巴勒斯坦的一种社会工具提供了重要的理解。它探讨了新思想如何从一种文化转移到另一种文化，以及这些现代主义思想如何融入巴勒斯坦托管地的养老院计划中。