Campos|323. The British consulate in Jerusalem opened in 1839; Finn arrived in the spring of 1846.
Finn, Stirring Times, chap. 2. See the biographical details for David Tuvia in Tidhar, Entzik-
lopediat ha-yishuv u-vonav, 2:567–568.
. See Tidhar, Entziklopediat ha-yishuv u-vonav, 3:1173, s.v. “Shlomo Yehezkiel Yahuda.”
. Sharabi, Ha-yishuv ha-Sfaradi bi-Yerushalayim be-shalhei ha-tkufah ha-ɇOtomanit.
. Shilo, Princess or Prisoner?
. Yellin, Zikhronot, 27–28. For a description of Yahuda’s extensive efforts in securing the
sale, see Tidhar, Entziklopediat ha-yishuv u-vonav, 2:788–789, s.v. “Shaul Yahuda.”
. Within a decade, though, Yehoshuɇa was struck by a series of personal and financial
crises. He was forced to sell off a substantial portion of his wife’s jewelry as well as household
silver and valuable books to pay off his debts, and he never permanently recovered his financial
footing.
. For an overview of the extramural expansion of Jerusalem—though overly reliant on
Jewish sources—see Kark and Oren-Nordheim, Jerusalem and Its Environs.
. Within a few years, Yehoshuɇa sold one of the family’s shares in Mazkeret Moshe and
moved to a cheaper property in Maতane Yehuda, a new Jewish enclave off Jaffa Road; the other
share was given to his son David as nedunya (dow r y).
. Yel lin t raveled to Russia on a n Ot toma n passpor t in 1889, ma k ing it t he four t h nat iona l-
ity he held in as many decades.
. For more on this, see Lafi, “Mediterranean Cosmopolitanisms and Its Contemporary
Revivals.”
. Hitachdut Bnai ha-Yishuv, David Yellin; Kasan, David Yellin ha-mechanech ve-ha-
manhig.
. Because the Ashkenazi Jewish leadership had issued a religious ban against the new
nonreligious schools of Jerusalem, Yehoshuɇa’s decision resulted in his communal sanction: his
charitable stipend from European benefactors was rescinded, and he was banned from Ash-
kenazi synagogues.
. Rodrigue, French Jews, Turkish Jews.
. Quoted in Brun, Shoftim u-mishpetanim be-Eretz Yisrael, 61 (translation mine). Shlo-
mo’s sister-in-law, Ita Pines, who later became his mother-in-law when he married his niece
Chana, recalled a similar motivation in her memoirs. I. Yellin, Le-tzatzaai.
. Tidhar, Entziklopediat ha-yishuv u-vonav, 3:1297–1298, s.v. “Shlomo Yellin.”
. Announcement for Shlomo Yellin’s lecture on the Ramban at the General Organization
of Hebrew Students in the Ottoman Empire, n.d., Shlomo Yellin archive, A412/21, Central
Zionist Archives (CZA), Jerusalem; letter from Shlomo to P. Nathan, May 18, 1908, Shlomo
Yellin archive, A412/24, CZA.
. Letter from David to Ahmad ɇArif al-Husayni, March–April 1912, David Yellin archive,
A153/140, CZA.
. For more on the Society of Ottoman Jews, see Campos, Ottoman Brothers, 146–148. The
language of “defending our rights” was used frequently in this period.
. Letter from Albert Antébi to president of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris, Oc-
tober 18, 1908, Alliance Israélite Universelle records, CM434/13, CZA; letter from Palestine
Office, Jaffa, to president of the Zionist Actions Committee, March 2, 1910, Palestine Office,
Jaffa, records, L2/26I, CZA.
. Cohen, Yehudim be-veit ha-mishpat, 280n1 (translation mine). For example, Yellin pur-
chased twenty-six plots of land in Kalandia and eighteen plots of land in Dir Nabla. See land
purchasing agreements for both in David Yellin archive, A153/135, CZA. Other lands in Hulda
and Ben Shemen were partially listed in Yellin’s name, along with those of other Ottoman