Jahula
Jahula
جاحولا | ||
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| Etymology: Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock[1] | ||
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Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
| Subdistrict | Safad | |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948[4] | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 3,869 dunams (3.869 km2 or 1.494 sq mi) | |
| Population (1945) | ||
| • Total | 420[2][3] | |
Jahula (
In 1945, the village had a population of 420. The village had one mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salih.[5]
Location
Jahula was situated near the
History
The Jahula area had been occupied from the seventh through the third millennium BC, according to archaeological excavations conducted in 1986.
Ottoman era
Jahula was recorded in the
In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Safad district,[9] while in 1875 Victor Guérin report passing through the village (which he called Kharbet Djaouleh), finding only a few of the houses inhabited.[10]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Ain Jahula "a large perennial spring, with a stream flowing to the march of the Huleh; a large supply of good water".[11]
The villagers of Jahula were predominantly
Most villagers were engaged in agriculture, and a spring on the north side of the village supplied water.[5] Some villagers worked in quarries north of the village.[5]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jahula had a population of 214; all Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 357; still all Muslims, in a total of 90 houses.[13]
In the 1945 statistics Jahula had a population of 420 Muslims,[2] with 3,869 dunums of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] 1,626 dunums were allocated to grain farming,[5][14] while 64 dunams were classified as urban land.[15]
1948, and aftermath
Jahula was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.[5][16] Benny Morris writes that the cause of depopulation is unknown, while the American Historian Rosemarie Esber gives as depopulation cause: "Direct mortar attacks on civilians, siege, shooting at fleeing Arabs".[16]
Presently, the Israeli Kibbutz of
Of the village site the Palestinian historian
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 62
- ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
- ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #23. Morris gives date and cause of depopulation with a questionmark
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Khalidi, 1992, p.457
- ^ Mokary, 2009, Yiftah Final Report
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 178. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 457
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 134
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 354
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 212
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 107
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 119
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 169
- ^ a b Esber, 2008, p.391, village #158
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 978-0981513171.
- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- 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.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Mokary, Abdalla (2009-09-30). "Yiftah Final Report" (121). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
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- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
External links
- Welcome To Jahula
- Jahula, Zochrot
- Jahula, Villages of Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Jahula from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
