Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940

Angelos Dalachanis, PhD (2011, European University Institute), is a fellow of the French School at Athens and a member of the core team of the ERC-funded project Open Jerusalem. His research interests include urban societies and migration in the eastern Mediterranean in the modern period. He is the author of The Greek Exodus from Egypt: Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937–1962 (Berghahn, 2017). Vincent Lemire, PhD (2006, University of Provence), is Associate Professor at Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University and director of the ERC-funded project Open Jerusalem. He is the author of several works on the history of Jerusalem, including La soif de Jérusalem: essai d’hydrohistoire 1840–1948 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010), Jérusalem 1900: la ville sainte à l’âge des possibles (Armand Colin, 2013), and he is the editor of Jérusalem: Histoire d’une ville-monde (Flammarion, 2016).

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsContributorsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Opening Ordinary JerusalemAngelos Dalachanis and Vincent LemirePart 1: Opening the Archives, Revealing the CityIntroductionGudrun Krämer1 Placing Jerusalemites in the History of Jerusalem: The Ottoman Census [sicil-i nüfūs] as a Historical SourceMichelle U. Campos2 Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th CenturyMaria Chiara Rioli3 The Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Jerusalem: New Archives and Perspectives on Daily Life and Social Networks, 1840–1940Stéphane Ancel4 Between Ottomanization and Local Networks: Appointment Registers as Archival Sources for Waqf Studies. The Case of Jerusalem’s Maghariba NeighborhoodŞerife Eroğlu Memiş5 Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842–1860Lora Gerd and Yann Potin6 The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate PeriodsAngelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon TselikasPart 2: Imperial Allegiances and Local AuthoritiesIntroductionBeshara Doumani7 The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at CitadinitéNoémi Lévy-Aksu8 Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem’s Networks of Citadinité at the End of 19th CenturyYasemin Avcı, Vincent Lemire, and Ömür Yazıcı Özdemir9 Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839–1840Abla Muhtadi and Falestin Naïli10 An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858–1914Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh11 Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate PeriodKonstantinos Papastathis12 Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864–1914Mahmoud YazbakPart 3: Cultural Networks, Public KnowledgeIntroductionEdhem Eldem13 Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What is Said to Have HappenedJens Hanssen14 Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940Yair Wallach15 Arab-Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-YehudaJonathan Marc Gribetz16 Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem’s Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884–1915Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali and Hassan Ahmad Hassan17 Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847–1930Leyla Dakhli18 The St. James Armenian Printing House in Jerusalem: Scientific and Educational Activities, 1833–1933Arman Khachatryan19 The Wasif Jawharriyeh Collection: Illustrating Jerusalem during the First Half of the 20th CenturyIssam NassarPart 4: Sharing the City: Contacts, Claims and ConflictsIntroductionGadi Algazi20 “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, 1917–1926Roberto Mazza21 Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s–1950sJulia R. Shatz22 Epidemiology and the City: Communal vs. Inter-communal Health Policy-Making in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the Mandate, 1908–1925Philippe Bourmaud23 Being on a List: Class and Gender in the Registries of Jewish Life in Jerusalem, 1840–1900Yali Hashash24 The Tramway Concession of Jerusalem, 1908–1914: Elite Citizenship, Urban Infrastructure, and the Abortive Modernization of a Late Ottoman CitySotirios Dimitriadis25 Waqf Endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem: Changing Status and Archival SourcesSalim Tamari26 The Limitations of Citadinité in Late Ottoman JerusalemLouis FishmanBibliography