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Title

• מסע ומתן : הפילנתרופיה היהודית־אירופית וירושלים בזמן מלחמת קרים = European Jewish Philanthropy and Jerusalem during the Crimean War / יוחאי בן־גדליה.
• Masaʻ u-matan : ha-filantropyah ha-Yehudit-Eropit vi-Yerushalayim bi-zeman Milḥemet Ḳrim = European Jewish philanthropy and Jerusalem during the Crimean War / Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

Author

• בן־גדליה, יוחאי.
• Ben-Ghedalia, Yochai

Publication

• ירושלים : יד יצחק בן צבי, [תשפ״ג = 2023]
• Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, [783 = 2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• יד יצחק בן צבי.
• Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, publisher.

Description

252 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Six philanthropic delegations led by Albert Cohen, Moshe Montefiore and Ludwig August Frankel, left for Jerusalem in the mid-fifties of the nineteenth century. They were preceded by a lot of writing in the Jewish press and a successful campaign for settlement in the Land of Israel. The Crimean War (1853-1856), one of the peak expressions of involvement The European in the 'Eastern question' received a unique expression among the Jewish philanthropists, in the form of philanthropic activity in Jerusalem, which was perceived as the capital of the Jewish East. This book examines for the first time the unusual preoccupation with Jerusalem and the Jewish East in those years as a historical phenomenon worthy of discussion in its own right. The book focuses on the double encounter of philanthropy Jewishness with the Yishuv, and the encounter within Jewish philanthropy between representatives of competing European empires. The transition from philanthropic activity among the Jewish immigrants who crowded the new communities in Western Europe, to foreign philanthropy, in Jerusalem, placed the philanthropists in front of a Jewish 'other', who was located in a distant political and cultural space. The book examines the encounter between the philanthropists and the settlement, and focuses on 'soft imperialism', as manifested in philanthropic activity, and in its scientific and literary expression in the form of intra-Jewish Orientalism. At the same time, philanthropy helped to strengthen the position of the philanthropists as a rising power in the imperial race between China and the 'superpowers' The diversity in the Jewish microcosm. The meeting in Jerusalem between the Jewish philanthropic powers, which represented different interests and imperial ethos, created a new Jewish political arena, which paved the way for international Jewish organizations and the beginning of modern Jewish politics.-- Back cover.

Alternative Title

European Jewish philanthropy and Jerusalem during the Crimean War

Subject

• Jews > Charitable contributions
• Jewish philanthropists > Jerusalem > 19th century
• Jews > Jerusalem > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Crimean War, 1853-1856 > Influence
• Juifs > Dons de charité
• Philanthropes juifs > Jérusalem > 19e siècle
• Juifs > Jérusalem > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle
• Guerre de Crimée, 1853-1856 > Influence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.

Language (note)

• Text in Hebrew ; Includes added English title page, table of contents, and abstract.

Contents

Introduction -- Routes of traditional and orthodox support for the Yishuv -- The Jewish press on the eve of the Crimean War -- Imagined power: press and plutocracy in the mid-nineteenth century -- Did the war really cause a humanitarian crisis? -- Albert Cohn's first mission to Jerusalem (1854) -- Jewish philanthropy during the Crimean War as the cradle of a reborn Jewish political sphere -- The encounter with the Yishuv -- The place of Jerusalem in the philanthropists' oriental question -- Western jewry and the Yishuv: a historiographical discussion

ISBN

• 9789652174567
• 9652174564

LCCN

022200075091

OCLC

• on1419825671
• 1419825671
• SCSB-14718468

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries