CONSULATES
Churches travelers and the people of the land
Palestine
in the 19th century
By Michael
Aran-Neumond
0544911016
Short
table of contents
The
Eastern question
The
Ottoman rule in Palestine
The
Holy places and the renovation of the Cupola of the Holy Sepulchre
The
Russians and the Greeks
The
Germans
The
British
The
Americans
The
French and the Latins
The
Austrians
The
Jewish Yishuv
The
Palestinians
The
Economy
Travelers
and explorers
The
Eucharist congress 1893
Introduction
In
1976 I finished my M.A degree in Contemporary Jewish history and I wrote my
thesis on "The negotiations to obtain the Rutenberg electricity concession
and the Novomeiski Dead sea potash
concession " which was published in
the Katedra magazine number 26, 31 and 44.
In
1977 Katedra published a few articles on the foreign consulates in Jerusalem in
the 19th century. This was
the beginning of my "affair"
with the multinational history of Eretz Yisrael – Eretz. I started reading
books,
visiting
the Old city and my ability to read Arabic Russian German and French was very
helpful.
In
1985 1986 I wrote the first draft and after an interval of more than 30 years
in November 2017 I resumed writing a new
draft. The books which were very helpful
were Binyamin Yaffe " A portrait of Eretz" published in 1983 ,
Barbara Tuchman " The Bible and the Sword" published in 1956 ', Eretz
at the end of the Ottoman period"
published in 1983 by Keter.
The
books by Professor Yehoshua ben Aryeh and are very important specifically
" How Eretz was created in the
modern era" published in 2018.
The
purpose of my book is to put in one place all the knowledge which I have
accumulated over the years. It does not purport to meet academic standards. I dwelled
on the international history of Palesine like
the foreign powers "the Holy
places" or the Suez canal" because they give international background
and interest me.
Ben
Aryeh argues that the modern history starts with Napoleon invasion to Eretz
while other historians contend that it begins after the Egyptian withdrawal and
the opening of the foreign consulates in 1840.
I
started my narrative with Dahr el Amr and the Russian -Turkish war in the second half of the 18th
century. The first chapter is dedicated
to the
Oriental
Question, Suez canal, the Damascus Affair and Lebanon. I wrote a special
section on the Holy places and the reconstruction of the Cupola of the Holy
Sepulchre. I wrote six chapters on the
foreign consulates in Jerusalem. There is a general part which relates of the
Ottoman rule , the economy and the Arab and Jewish communities. I conclude with
some of the many travelers including royals, researchers, famous writers and
painters. I also included a chapter on the Eucharist Congress in 1893 which I
wrote 30 years ago.
The
National Library and Yad ben Zvi library were very important for my work. The
bibliography that I included reflects my personal interest. I included in the book my grandma Dora
Neumond 1884-1975 pict
ures
which she painted in the 1940's.
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