Les waqfs juifs et la colonisation de la vieille ville de Jérusalem à la fin du 19e s. / M. SROOR

Conférence de Musa Sroor (Université de Birzeit ) - Le 22 juin 2018 Chaire sécable de l'IISMM/EHESS "Les waqfs juifs et la colonisation de la vieille ville de Jérusalem à la fin du 19e siècle". In the second half of the nineteenth century there was a great interest among Jews (both Ottoman citizens and European settler Jews) in creating waqfs in Jerusalem. The Islamic Jerusalem court documents are the only source to study the phenomenon of Jewish waqfs in Jerusalem. Through a survey of these records, I found 35 Jewish waqfs in Jerusalem – all founded in the second half of the nineteenth-century after the first Jewish/Zionist wave of immigration to Palestine in 1882. It should be noted that this figure is larger than the establishment of all other wafqs in Jerusalem during the same period, both Muslim and Christian. Through an in-depth reading and critical analysis of these records, this paper argues that these Jewish waqfs (all 35 of them) serves as the primary basis for Zionist settlement in Jerusalem. This study relies on the methodology of relational historical analysis and para-psychology analysis in reading these documents. Dans le cadre du séminaire "Penser l’expérience palestinienne", IISMM/EHESS