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Jarisha

Jarisha
جرِيشة
Jerisha, Jarush
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Etymology: Jerisheh, from "to pound" or "grind"[1]
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Jarisha is located in Mandatory Palestine
Jarisha
Jarisha
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778
Palestine grid132/167
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Area
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 • Total
555 dunams (55.5 ha or 137 acres)
Population
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 • Total
190[2][3]
Current LocalitiesYarkon Park, 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 depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[6]

History

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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 period

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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 1856 the village was named Darishah on Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year.[9] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that the village had a population of 76 in a total of 38 houses, though that population count included men, only. It was further noted that it was located 6000 meters NE of Jaffa.[10][11]

In 1882 the PEF'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.[12] 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".[13]

British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jerisheh had a population of 57, all Muslims[14] increasing by the 1931 census to 183, still all Muslims, in a total of 43 houses.[15]

Since May 1944, Jarisha was part of the municipality of Ramat Gan.[16]

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.[17] 3 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[18]

1948, and after

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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."[19]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
  2. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  3. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  4. ^ a b Mann, 2006, p. 246.
  5. ^ Ben-Tor and Greenberg, 1992, p. 246.
  6. ^ a b 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. ^ Kiepert, 1856, Map of Southern Palestine
  10. ^ Deschelscheh, in Socin, 1879, p. 152
  11. ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 137, also noted 38 houses at el−dscherische
  12. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 251. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.246
  13. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 265
  14. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20
  15. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 14
  16. ^ "⁨במושבות ⁩ | ⁨הארץ⁩ | 14 מאי 1944 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 95 Also in Khalidi, 1992, p.246-247
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 145
  19. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 247

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