Title Between Redemption and Revival : the Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why the Old Yishuv?; The Old Yishuv's Significance; Old Yishuv Forces; Ethnography and History; 1 Relic: Jerusalem at the Start of the Nineteenth Century; Jerusalem Attained; From the Natives' Point of View; The Hidden Logic of Culture; 2 The Sephardis; Sephardis in Jerusalem; Chief Rabbi Moshe Yosef Meyuhas; 3 Ashkenazi Days of Trial; The Vilna Gaon; Shklov, Hazon Tzion, and the Prushis; On to Jerusalem: The Days of Trial Begin; The Struggle over the Hurva: Round One Prushis Versus Sephardis, Jerusalem Versus SafedThe Divisions Widen; 4 1840: Disappointments, Disarray, and a New Start; The Conquest and ""Taming"" of Palestine; Toward 1840; 1840: Collapse and a New Start; Moshe ""Magid"" Rivlin and the Fateful Meeting in Istanbul; 5 The Europeanization of Jerusalem; A ""More Modern and Habitable"" City; Quiet Resistance; 6 The Ashkenazis Break Away; The Rise of an Independent Ashkenazi Community; Growing Diversity and Fragmentation; Israel Bak and the Hasidic Kollel; The Rise of the Kollels; 7 ""Schools! Schools! Traditional Jewish Education: Kutab and HederAttempts at Educational Reform; Ludwig Frankl and the Laemel School; 8 The Nahalat Shiva Generation; Yosef ""Reb Yosha"" Rivlin; The Jerusalem Prodigy: Yoel Moshe Salomon; Yehoshua Yellin; On the Way to Nahalat Shiva; Nahalat Shiva; 9 Frumkin and the Rise of the Havatzelet Camp; The Beginnings of a Modern City; The Great Curse of Jerusalem; The Voice of the Havatzelet; The Havatzelet Camp; The Storm Breaks; 10 Meah She'arim; New Life Outside the Walls; The Holy Enterprise of Meah She'arim; Birth Pangs; A Bastion of Ultraorthodoxy 11 Toward the ""New"" YishuvThe Diskins; Yehiel Mikhael Pines: The Dilemma Personified; Toward the Haskala; 12 Ben-Yehuda: Beyond the Haskala to Political Zionism; Ben-Yehuda: Hebrew Nationalist; Nissim Bekhar and the Alliance School; The Ban Defied, the Price Paid; Old Yishuv/New Yishuv Realignments; 13 The Other Side of the Yishuv: Sephardis and Middle Eastern Jews; The Entrepreneurs; Yosef Navon ""Bey; North African Exodus, Middle Eastern Aliya; From the Far Reaches of Yemen ... ; The Scandal of Yemin Moshe; 14 The End of an Era; The Maskils Step into the Light of Day The Last Great ConfrontationLast-ditch Resistance; The Old Yishuv's Decline; Ahva; Albert Antebi; Epilogue; Despite Setbacks, Cultural Advances; Wrapping Up the Loose Ends; The Language War; The Old Yishuv: A Reconsideration; Notes; Glossary; Index Summary In the Zionist view of Israeli history, the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem - the Jewish community of the 19th and early 20th centuries - was "a lifeless body ruled by hypocrites, cheats and unschooled rabbis", and its importance was downplayed and ignored in this study of the Old Yishuv, Dr Halper uncovers the personalities, issues, and events that formed Notes Print version record Subject Jews -- Jerusalem -- History -- 19th century Ethnic relations Jews SUBJECT Jerusalem -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069905 Palestine -- History -- 1799-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097171 Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations Subject Middle East -- Jerusalem Middle East -- Palestine Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429702228 0429702221 9780429043369 0429043368 9780429742248 042974224X 9780429722233 0429722230

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