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Suggestions for Further Reading
Campos, Michelle U. Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early
Twentieth-Century Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. This
is a study of how the 1908 Ottoman revolution affected political life and intercom-
munal relations in Palestine.
Cohen, Julia Phillips. Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the
Modern Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. This study of Sephardi Jews as
Ottoman political actors covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire. Princeton, NJ: Prince-
ton University Press, 2008. Hanioğlu examines the intellectual, political, social,
and cultural transformations of the late Ottoman Empire.
Kark, Ruth, and Michal Oren-Nordheim. Jerusalem and Its Environs: Quarters, Neigh-
borhoods, Villages, 1800–1948. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2001. This work investi-
gates the geographical expansion of Jerusalem in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Conscious-
ness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. This is a study of Palestinian so-
cial, intellectual, economic, and political life in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
Notes
. This discussion of Yellin’s speech is adapted from Campos, Ottoman Brothers, 1–2.
. See the frontispieces of S. Yellin, Les capitulations et la juridiction consulaire, and S.
Ye l l i n , Une page d’ histoire Turque.
. Campos, Ottoman Brothers, 2.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.
. For more on the time period, see Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman
Empire.
. For other recent studies of Ottomanism, see Cohen, Becoming Ottomans; Jacobson,
From Empire to Empire; Kechriotis, “The Greeks of Izmir at the End of the Empire.”
. Untitled article, Al-Quds, May 14, 1909 (translation mine).
. Details on the family’s early history are taken largely from Yehoshuɇa Yellin, Zichronot
le-ben Yerushalayim.
. As the first official Ottoman census was not held until the 1880s, general demographic
statistics for the period before then are not much more than impressionistic and are the subject
of much political debate. The 1839 Montefiore census, which concerned itself solely with the
Jewish population, recorded 1,617 Jewish families resident in Jerusalem, of which 1,362 were
Sephardi—which included not only Judeo-Spanish-speaking Jews but other Eastern Jews such
as North Africans (Maghrebim), Bukharans, Georgians, Iraqis, and others. This put the Ash-
kenazi community at around 250 families. Data come from the Montefiore census database at
http://www.montefiorecensuses.org/search.
. Jews began purchasing property in Bab Hitta in the third decade of the nineteenth cen-
tury, right around the time the Yellins arrived. Cohen, Yehudim be-veit ha-mishpat, 281.