Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (81 page)

^63.
El Liberal
, February 5, 1909.

^64.
“We Are Waiting,” by Haim Ben-'Atar,
El Liberal
, October 22, 1909.

^65.
Ha-
erut
, December 26, 1910.

^66.
Stein, “Creation of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish Newspaper Cultures,” 117–18 .

^67.
Ha-
erut
, November 19, 1909.

^68.
“El Tiempo
and Zionism: Part A,” in
Ha-
erut
, January 19, 1910.

^69.
Fresco,
Le Sionisme.
Fresco had accused the Zionist youth group in Istanbul, the Ancient Maccabeans, of being “traitors” to the empire. In response, the Maccabeans sued Fresco in Ottoman court for defamation and incitement.
Ha-
erut
, November 21, 1910. After appearing in court in Pera, the judge decided that since Fresco had not signed the article in question and since he was not the editor responsible for the newspaper, he could not be tried for libel. From
Ha-Mevasser
, cited in
Ha-
erut
, November 25, 1910.

^70.
He agreed to print all articles he received provided they were “suitable to the unity of Turkey [sic].”
Ha-
erut
, November 26, 1909. Jacobsohn to
Wolffsohn, November 7, 1908. CZA A19/7; Jacobsohn to Wolffsohn, October 30, 1908. CZA Z2/7.

^71.
Ha-
erut
, December 1, 1909. This account was taken from
El Tiempo.
In the three parliaments of the Second Constitutional Period, there were five Jewish members cumulative, all members of the CUP: Emmanuel Carasso (Salonica), Vitaly Faraji (Istanbul), Victor Corbasi (Istanbul), Ezekiel Sasson (Baghdad), and Nissim Mazliach (Izmir).

^72.
Ha-
erut
, December 27, 1909.

^73.
El Liberal
, November 19, 1909. On the Chief Rabbi's position, see Victor Jacobsohn to Wolffsohn, November 10, 1909. CZA A19/7. In September 1910, Jacobson asked the chief rabbi to publicly declare that Zionism had no separatist tendencies, but he refused.

^74.
Istanbul Zionist Office to Wolffsohn, February 15, 1910. CZA Z2/9. According to Weiner, Wolffsohn rebuffed Jacobsohn's demands to recall the book and publicly denounce Kann. See Weiner, “Ha-mediniyut ha-
iyonit be-Turkiya,” 288.

^75.
Istanbul Zionist Office to Wolffsohn, February 15, 1910. CZA Z2/9. Emphasis mine.

^76.
Ha-
erut
, November 23, 1910.

^77.
Ha-
erut
, November 30, 1910.

^78.
Ha-Berufs
answer was “to spit in their faces.”
Ha-
erut
, December 9, 1910. See also “Echoes of Fresco's Slander in Tunis,”
Ha-
erut
, February 27, 1911.