Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940 : opening new archives, revisiting a global city / edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D̲alachanēs, Angelos, editor.

Lemire, Vincent, 1973- editor.

Series:

Open Jerusalem (Series) ; Volume 1.

Open Jerusalem Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal government--Jerusalem.

Municipal government.

Urban anthropology--Jerusalem.

Urban anthropology.

Jerusalem--History--19th century.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 591 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston Brill 2018

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840–1940, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars, mostly young academics, utilize new archives to revisit the global, extraordinary city of Jerusalem in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods.

Contents:

Introduction

Placing Jerusalemites in the History of Jerusalem: The Ottoman Census (sicil-i nüfūs) as a Historical Source

Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century

The Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Jerusalem: New Archives and Perspectives on Daily Life and Social Networks, 1840–1940

Between Ottomanization and Local Networks: Appointment Registers as Archival Sources for Waqf Studies. The Case of Jerusalem’s Maghariba Neighborhood

Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842–1860

The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods: Introduction : The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at Citadinité

Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem’s Networks of Citadinité in the late 19th Century

Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839–1840

An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858–1914

Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate Period

Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864–1914

Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What Is Said to Have Happened: Introduction

Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940

Arab–Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem’s Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884–1915

Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847–1930

The St. James Armenian Printing House in Jerusalem: Scientific and Educational Activities, 1833–1933

The Wasif Jawharriyeh Collection: Illustrating Jerusalem during the First Half of the 20th Century: Introduction

“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

Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s–1950s

Epidemiology and the City: Communal vs. Intercommunal Health Policy-Making in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the Mandate, 1908–1925

Being on a List: Class and Gender in the Registries of Jewish Life in Jerusalem, 1840–1900

The Tramway Concession of Jerusalem, 1908–1914: Elite Citizenship, Urban Infrastructure, and the Abortive Modernization of a Late Ottoman City

Waqf Endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem: Changing Status and Archival Sources

The Limitations of Citadinité in Late Ottoman Jerusalem

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789004375741

9004375740

OCLC:

1032291352

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004375741 DOI

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access