Jarisha

Jarisha
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Jarisha
Arabic جرِيشة
Name meaning Jerisheh, from "to pound" or "grind"[1]
Also spelled Jerisha, Jarush
Subdistrict Jaffa
Coordinates 32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778Coordinates: 32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778
Palestine grid 132/167
Population 190[2][3] (1945)
Area 555[2] dunams
Current localities Tel Aviv,[4] Ramat Gan

Jarisha (Arabic: جرِيشة‎, also transliterated Jerisha; Hebrew: ג'רישה‬) was a Palestinian Arab village located 200 meters (660 ft) from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha (Tel Gerisa), on the south bank of Al-Awja (Yarkon River).[5][6] After the establishment of Tel Aviv, it was one of five Arab villages to fall within its municipal boundaries.[4] Jarisha was ethnically cleansed in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and the site has since been, "completely covered over by highways and suburban houses."[6]

History

Jarisha was located only 200 meters (660 ft) from Tel Gerisa, an archaeological site dating to the Early Bronze II period (2800-2600 BC). In the Middle Bronze period (2000-1500 BC) the site was a fortified Hyksos town. It was succeeded by a Philistine settlement around the 12th century BC.[7]

Ottoman era

In the 1596 tax records under the Ottoman Empire, it was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of the Bani Sa'b, part of Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 22 Muslim households; an estimated 121 persons, who paid taxes on buffalo, goats and beehives; a total of 2,150 akçe.[8]

In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village, transcribed as "Jerisheh", as being built of adobe bricks and flanked by an olive grove. It had a well and a mill.[9] South-east of the village was the ruins of a Khan, a graveyard and some caves, also a masonry dam and a small bridge, "apparently Saracenic".[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jerisheh had a population of 57, all Muslims[11] increasing the 1931 census to 183, still all Muslims, in a total of 43 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 190 Muslims,[3] with 555 dunams of land.[2] The villagers worked in the service industry, but some also grew fruits and vegetables; in 1944-45 a total of 302 dunums of village land was used for citrus and bananas, and 89 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[13] 3 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[14]

1948, and after

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the state of the village site in 1992 was as follows: "The site has been completely covered over by highways and suburban houses."[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
  2. 1 2 3 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  3. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  4. 1 2 Mann, 2006, p. 246.
  5. ↑ Ben-Tor and Greenberg, 1992, p. 246.
  6. 1 2 Khalidi and Elmusa, 1992, p. 246.
  7. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 246
  8. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 139; cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 246
  9. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 251. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.246
  10. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 265
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20
  12. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 14
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 95 Also in Khalidi, 1992, p.246-247
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 145
  15. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 247

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  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
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