Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (67 page)

^46.
Ha-Hashkafa
, August 7, 1908.

^47.
Ha-
erut
, May 4, 1910.

^48.
‘Uziel to Palestine Office, December 21, 1913. CZA, L2/43.

^49.
El Paradizo
, February 9, 1909; February 12, 1909; March 5, 1909; March 9, 1909; April 20, 1909. See also Albert Antébi to Isaac Fernandez, March 10, 1909. AAIU, Israel-IX.E.26. However in early 1910, when the
interim governor of Jerusalem recommended nominating another Jew to the council, Antébi cautioned that it would provoke Christian opposition. Antébi to Haim Nahum, February 27, 1910. CAHJP, HM2/8644. He later suggested that they wait until the following year to pursue the additional member. Antébi to Haim Nahum, March 7, 1910. CAHJP, HM2/8644.
Ha-
erut
was still agitating for a second council seat a year later.
Ha-
erut
, March 3, 1911.

^50.
El Paradizo
, nos. 3, 9, 11, 13, 17;
El Liberal
, nos. 4, 13, etc. Little more is heard from the SOJ until 1913, when it is noted that the organization had closed down in 1910 due to an internal conflict regarding party and ethnicity.
Ha-
erut
, January 6, 1913; Letter from Dr. Arthur Ruppin to the president of the Zionist Actions Committee, August 24, 1908. CZA Z2/632. See letters from the
va'ad ha-zmani
and from David Yellin, September 17, 1908, CZA, A153/140;
Ha-Hashkafa
, September 26, 1908;
Ha-Po'el ha-
a'ir
, May 1909;
Ha-
erut
, July 6, 1909 and June 11, 1909.

^51.
El Paradizo
, March 23, 1909.

^52.
AAIU, Israel-IX.E.26.

^53.
El Paradizo
, March 12, 1909. An earlier complaint had been voiced in November 1908, when the band played on Fridays for Muslims and Sundays for Christians, leaving the Jews without musical accompaniment on Saturdays. As the paper put it, “One would think Jerusalem had only Muslims and Christians!”
Ha-
vi
, November 10, 1908. According to a later notice by the paper, the band did play for Purim, a repertoire of the Ottoman anthem and Hebrew and Hasidic melodies.
Ha-
vi
, March 7, 1909.

^54.
El Paradizo
, March 16, 1909. Upon their arrival at Jaffa port, Jews were given a red note in exchange for their passport, in essence a visa limiting their stay to three months; however, many Jews (one thousand to two thousand immigrants per month) simply kept the pink slip and never retrieved their passports or paid bribes for their return.

^55.
Antébi to Franck, November 19, 1909. AAIU, Israel-IX.E.27.

^56.
Antébi,
L'homme du Sérail
, 371.

^57.
Ha-
erut, February 4, 1910;
Ha-
erut
, August 24, 1910.

^58.
Ha-
erut
, June 25, 1909.

^59.
Brummett,
Image and Imperialism
, 9.

^60.
Quoted in Yehoshu'a, “Al-sihafa al-‘Arabiyya,” 38.