Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940 Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Open Jerusalem Edited by Vincent Lemire (Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University) and Angelos Dalachanis (French School at Athens) VOLUME 1 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/opje Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Ordinary Jerusalem 1840–1940 Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City Edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire LEIDEN | BOSTON Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. The Open Jerusalem project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) (starting grant No 337895) Note for the cover image: Photograph of two women making Palestinian point lace seated outdoors on a balcony, with the Old City of Jerusalem in the background. American Colony School of Handicrafts, Jerusalem, Palestine, ca. 1930. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol.054/ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dalachanis, Angelos, editor. | Lemire, Vincent, 1973– editor. Title: Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840–1940 : opening new archives, revisiting a global city / edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] | Series: Open Jerusalem ; Volume 1 | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018019559 (print) | LCCN 2018019932 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004375741 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004375734 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Jerusalem—History—19th century. | Jerusalem—History—20th century. | Urban anthropology—Jerusalem. | Municipal government—Jerusalem. Classification: LCC DS109.925 (ebook) | LCC DS109.925 .O73 2018 (print) | DDC 956.94/42034—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018019559 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2543-0211 isbn 978-90-04-37573-4 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-37574-1 (e-book) Copyright 2018 by the Authors. Published by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense and Hotei Publishing. 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Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Abbreviations xiii List of Contributors xv Note on Transliteration xxiv Introduction: Opening Ordinary Jerusalem 1 Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire part 1 Opening the Archives, Revealing the City Introduction 13 Gudrun Krämer 1 Placing Jerusalemites in the History of Jerusalem: The Ottoman Census (sicil-i nüfūs) as a Historical Source 15 Michelle U. Campos 2 Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century 29 Maria Chiara Rioli 3 The Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Jerusalem: New Archives and Perspectives on Daily Life and Social Networks, 1840–1940 50 Stéphane Ancel 4 Between Ottomanization and Local Networks: Appointment Registers as Archival Sources for Waqf Studies. The Case of Jerusalem’s Maghariba Neighborhood 75 Şerife Eroğlu Memiş 5 Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842–1860 100 Lora Gerd and Yann Potin Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access vi Contents 6 The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods 118 Angelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon Tselikas part 2 Imperial Allegiances and Local Authorities Introduction 139 Beshara Doumani 7 The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at Citadinité 143 Noémi Lévy-Aksu 8 Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem’s Networks of Citadinité in the late 19th Century 161 Yasemin Avcı, Vincent Lemire, and Ömür Yazıcı Özdemir 9 Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839–1840 186 Abla Muhtadi and Falestin Naïli 10 An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858–1914 200 Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh 11 Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate Period 223 Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864–1914 240 Mahmoud Yazbak Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access Contents vii 13 Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What Is Said to Have Happened 262 Jens Hanssen part 3 Cultural Networks, Public Knowledge Introduction 283 Edhem Eldem 14 Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940 287 Yair Wallach 15 Arab–Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda 305 Jonathan Marc Gribetz 16 Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem’s Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884–1915 330 Hassan Ahmad Hassan and Abdul-Hameed al-Kayyali 17 Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847–1930 352 Leyla Dakhli 18 The St. James Armenian Printing House in Jerusalem: Scientific and Educational Activities, 1833–1933 366 Arman Khachatryan 19 The Wasif Jawharriyeh Collection: Illustrating Jerusalem during the First Half of the 20th Century 384 Issam Nassar Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access viii Contents part 4 Sharing the City: Contacts, Claims and Conflicts Introduction 401 Gadi Algazi 20 “The Preservation and Safeguarding of the Amenities of the Holy City without Favour or Prejudice to Race or Creed”: The Pro-Jerusalem Society and Ronald Storrs, 1917–1926 403 Roberto Mazza 21 Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s–1950s 423 Julia R. Shatz 22 Epidemiology and the City: Communal vs. Intercommunal Health Policy-Making in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the Mandate, 1908–1925 440 Philippe Bourmaud 23 Being on a List: Class and Gender in the Registries of Jewish Life in Jerusalem, 1840–1900 457 Yali Hashash 24 The Tramway Concession of Jerusalem, 1908–1914: Elite Citizenship, Urban Infrastructure, and the Abortive Modernization of a Late Ottoman City 475 Sotirios Dimitriadis 25 Waqf Endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem: Changing Status and Archival Sources 490 Salim Tamari 26 The Limitations of Citadinité in Late Ottoman Jerusalem 510 Louis Fishman Bibliography 531 Index of Persons 580 Index of Places 586 Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire - 978-90-04-37574-1 Downloaded from Brill.com03/21/2019 10:36:34AM via free access List of Figures and Tables Figures 1.1 Ottoman census header, 1299 [1883–84] 18 1.2 Ottoman census header, 1321 [1905–6] 20 2.1 Cover of the catalogue “Carte di visita avvisi ec. 1880” 32 2.2 Visiting card of P. Léon Pourrière, OFM, ca. 1898 34 2.3 Visiting card of E. Bertoli, dentist, ca. 1894–95 35 2.4 Visiting card of Salim al-Husayni, ca. 1889–90 37 2.5 Bill of exchange of the Société du Chemin de Fer Ottoman de Jaffa à Jérusalem et prolongements, 1891 39 2.6 Visiting card of Albert Antébi, ca. 1898 44 2.7 Visiting card of midwife F. Lapidus, ca. 1892–93 47 2.8 Visiting card of Yassin al-Khalidi, ca. 1898 48 3.1 Letter of Emperor Yohannes IV to the sultan, dated Yäkkatit 24, 1874 (Ethiopian Calendar)/March 2, 1882 60 3.2 Ottoman report concerning the increasing number of Ethiopians in Jerusalem bearing Italian passports, 1893 61 3.3 Letter from Abd Mariam to Antonin Kapustin, archimandrite in the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, December 6, 1875, Jerusalem 63 3.4 Receipt for the payment of wine, signed by Nicolai Schmidt, January 4, 1916 66 3.5 Receipt for payment for work done on Empress Taytu’s house, April 14, 1915 68 3.6 Receipt for the payment of tax (recto), Muharram 1314 (June 1896) 69 3.7 Receipt for the payment of tax (verso), Muharram 1314 (June 1896) 70 3.8 Short note signed by Pascal Seraphin, August 1, 1913 71 3.9 Receipt for payment for work done on Empress