June 14, 1893 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel Foreign Office to Sir F. Clare-Ford Affront Ottoman Prohibition of Jewish Land Purchases in Palestine FO 78/4476 – No. 146 Draft F.O. 14 June 1893 Sir, Y. Excl’s Despatch No 199 of the 17th ult. enclosed copies of petitions addressed to the […]
Rabbi Levi ben Haviv, the leader of Jerusalem, died. His major scholar, Rabbi Caster, succeed him in leading the Jews in Jerusalem. Shortly after that, Rabbi Shlomoo Shirilio succeeds him until 1558. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
March 17, 1913 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel Lowther to Sir E. Grey Ottoman Opposition to Zionism FO 371/1794 – No. 218 (16925) Pera, March 17, 1913 Sir, After the coup d’etat of January 23, last by which the Committee of Union and Progress (e.g. COUP) seized power, the Zionists […]
Rabbi Yehiel Ashkenazi moves back to Israel from Italy and becomes the leader of the Ashkenazi Jews in Jerusalem. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
FO 78/4476 – No. 146 Draft F.O. 14 June 1893 Sir, Y. Excl’s Despatch No 199 of the 17th ult. enclosed copies of petitions addressed to the Consul at Jerusalem by certain British subjects of the Jewish faith, in which they complain of the regulations Prohibiting Jews from buying & selling real Estate in Palestine, […]
Highlights- Rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem, 1538-1541 Edict of Toleration, 1782 The Seligman-Hilton Affair, 1877 Augusta Victoria, 1907 Overview Ottoman Jerusalem 1517-1917, Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman, Jerusalem- Sacred City of Mankind, Steimatzky Ltd., Jerusalem, 1991. Artifacts Mohammed Manuscript, 16th century Jews from Worms, 16th century Silver Lion Dollars, 16th-17th century Martin Luther Burns […]
A rich selection of ceramic pipes from the Ottoman period. Mazar, Eilat, The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations, Shoham Academic Research and Publication, Jerusalem, 2002.
The Ottoman Empire was approaching its apogee at the time of the Expulsion. By the 1560s its territories included most of North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the Balkans and Asia Minor. In the commercial centers of this empire – Istanbul, Salonica, Adrianople, and Izmir – as well as in the holy […]
Jerusalem in Original Photographs 1850–1920 Shimon Gibson (Winona Lake, Indiana- Eisenbrauns, 2003) 204 pp., $44.50 This attractive new volume joins dozens of late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Jerusalem with a commentary drawn from contemporary travelogues and letters, many of them cited at length. The effect is to convey in considerable detail the sights and […]
Reveals minute details of 19th-century Jerusalem But for the curiosity, lively intelligence and considerable sleuthing of a group of young scholars, a unique and exquisitely detailed model of Jerusalem in the 1870s might still lie moldering in the basement of a museum in Geneva. Today, however, the completely restored 13-foot by 15-foot zinc model, crafted […]