URBAN LEISURE AS A PLACE OF TRUST FOR AN ETHNIC MINORITY - THE CASE OF THE GERMAN COLONY IN HAIFA

摘要

This article conceptualizes the Ethno-Place of Trust as a new concept for understanding and analyzing the meaning of places to an ethnic group. An Ethno-Place of Trust is defined as a place where a specific ethnic group shares or engages in social, cultural, economic, or political interests and activities, where their relations are based on trust, and where they feel safe. Ethno-Places of Trust have a set of components that together determine their existence: Shared Place, Shared Trust, Shared Perception of External Risk, Shared Safety Feeling, and Shared Activities. Using this concept, the present study focuses on an emerging place of leisure for an ethnic minority and asks whether this place has the quality of an Ethno-Place of Trust. Evaluation of the empirical evidence gathered leads to the conclusion that the German Colony in Haifa has the features of an Ethno-Place of Trusts/or the Arab minority in Israel.