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"The First Hebrew Book Printed in Jerusalem" (in the 19th C anyway)
http://www.historicana.com/judaica/zion.html
Link expired/Book sold, but still have article
AZULAI, Hayyim Yosef David. Sefer Avodat Hakodesh. Jerusalem: Israel Bak, 1841. Two title pages, [5], 222pp. Five-line manuscript inscription on front pastedown. Original tree calf. Fine copy. Modern 1/2 morocco burgundy case.
$ 6500
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN JERUSALEM BY THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. Published in Jerusalem in 1841, Avodat HaKodesh was the first Hebrew book ever published in the Holy City. This volume was published by Rabbi Israel Bak, ten years after coming to settle in the Holy Land. Bak originally made his home in Safed, in the upper Galilee. There he established a publishing house and published a number of books.
In 1834, local Safed Arabs revolted against the governor, Habaashe, of Egypt. During the uprising, Safed was attacked and all of the Jews were robbed. Rabbi Bak's home and the publishing house were destroyed.
The Jewish community was saved by a large military contingent sent from Egypt. The Jewish community was only beginning to recover, when in 1837, an earthquake leveled the cities of Tiberias and Safed, killing several thousand people.
What little remained was taken from the Jewish community by force, a few years later, when the local population rebelled against the Egyptian regime a second time. In response to the destruction and the plundering, Bak traveled to Alexandria to entreat the governor to intercede.
While Bak was in Alexandria, word of the Blood Libel being directed against the Jews in Damascus reached the Egyptian capital. [.......]
At the time of printing of Avodat HaKodesh, the Jewish population of Jerusalem numbered approximately 5000 souls, the overall population being about 11,000 inhabitants. Palestine at beginning of the 19th century was but a derelict province of the decaying Ottoman Empire. The economy was primitive, its population sparse, its standards low. It was not a place of thriving culture and learning, of excitement and opportunity as it had been in ancient world or as it has become in the 20th century. It was not until the 1840's that physical changes began to take place in the Holy Land, that development occurred, geographical exploration, transportation, postal services, buildings. It is for this reason that no books were printed in Jerusalem pre-1841, while for three centuries books poured out of the other world centers of printing. Jerusalem remained backwards, undeveloped, and no printing press..."
Yeah, but according to Monte all these Jews that had been there for 500 years and were the majority population in Jerusalem and surrounding major cities either didn't exist, or recent 18th European invaders. Can you imagine, the propagandist liar forgets that during the 1800's the land was under Ottoman control, not the British, and the last thing the Ottomans would allow is "European invaders". Monte just likes to promote lies.
still trying to teach history to the the Monte Iberia Eleuth?
"Safed did not become an important center of Jewish life until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It is not mentioned in the Torah and was apparently not settled until Roman times."
"Jews began to come in large numbers after they were expelled from Spain in 1492 "
Safed Virtual Israel Experience
"Jewish settlement in Safed is attested by genizah documents from the first half of the 11th century. However, Benjamin of Tudela, who visited the city in 1170/71, stated that no Jews lived there. "
Safed
1170, 1171?! Jewish Virtual Library?! This is a prime example of what this antisemitic terrorist worshiping fraudster does. We're talking about the 1400's and on, where Jews, once again, started coming back to their holy land, and the piece of shit starts propagandist liar quotes from the 1100's. And, from a site he regularly calls "Hasbara". But we all know that Monte, doesn't quote "controversial facts" from "Hasbara sites". Ha ha ha. I'm telling you this donkey Monte is a paid propagandist that just squats on this forum 24/7 and there's probably more than one of these dirtbags.
From the same Jewish Virtual Library, minor detail Monte conveniently avoided. Ha ha ha, OMG:
Ottoman Rule 1517-1917 Jewish Virtual Library
Pre-State Israel:
Under Ottoman Rule
(1517 - 1917)
Following the Ottoman conquest in 1517, the Land was divided into four districts and attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. At the outset of the Ottoman era, an estimated 1,000 Jewish families lived in the country, mainly in Jerusalem, Nablus (Shechem), Hebron, Gaza, Safad (Tzfat) and the villages of Galilee. The community was comprised of descendants of Jews who had never left the Land as well as immigrants from North Africa and Europe.
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Orderly government, until the death (1566) of Sultan Suleiman the Magificent, brought improvements and stimulated Jewish immigration. Some newcomers settled in Jerusalem, but the majority went to Safad where, by mid-16th century, the Jewish population had risen to about 10,000, and the town had become a thriving textile center as well as the focus of intense intellectual activity. During this period, the study of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) flourished, and contemporary clarifications of Jewish law, as codified in the Shulhan Arukh, spread throughout the Diaspora from the study houses in Safad.
With a gradual decline in the quality of Ottoman rule, the country was brought to a state of widespread neglect. By the end of the 18th century, much of the land was owned by absentee landlords and leased to impoverished tenant farmers, and taxation was as crippling as it was capricious. The great forests of Galilee and the Carmel mountain range were denuded of trees; swamp and desert encroached on agricultural land.
The 19th century saw medieval backwardness gradually give way to the first signs of progress, with various Western powers jockeyed for position, often through missionary activities. British, French and American scholars launched studies of biblical geography and archeology; Britain, France, Russia, Austria and the United States opened consulates in Jerusalem. Steamships began to ply regular routes between the Land and Europe; postal and telegraphic connections were installed; the first road was built connecting Jerusalem and Jaffa. The Land's rebirth as a crossroads for commerce of three continents was accelerated by the opening of the Suez Canal.
Consequently, the condition of the country's Jews slowly improved, and their numbers increased substantially. By mid-century, overcrowded conditions within the walled city of Jerusalem motivated the Jews to build the first neighborhood outside the walls (1860) and, in the next quarter century, to add seven more, forming the nucleus of the New City. By 1880, Jerusalem had an overall Jewish majority. Land for farming was purchased throughout the country; new rural settlements were set up; and the Hebrew language, long restricted to liturgy and literature, was revived. The stage was being set for the founding of the Zionist movement.
facts are not propaganda and propaganda are not facts