Yishuv
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The Yishuv, HaYishuv Ha'ivri, or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Yishuv was also refe
Jews at the Kotel, 1870s
Jewish community in the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem under Ottoman rule, 1895
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi at the Yishuv's Assembly of Representatives, September 1944
Piki Wiki Israel 5628 Synagogue
Old Yishuv
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The Old Yishuv were the Jewish communities of the region of Palestine during the Ottoman period, up to the onset of Zionist aliyah waves, and the consolidation of the new Yishuv by the end of World Wa
Yishuv
…southern part of Ottoman Syria until 1918, OETA South in 1917–1920, and Mandatory Palestine in 1920–1948. A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv. 'Old Yishuv' refers to all the Jews living in Palestine before the first Zionist immigration wave (aliyah) of 1882, and to their…
Photograph of Sephardi Jews in 19th century taken from 1899 book Views from Palestine and its Jewish colonies.
Jewish workers in Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem in the mid-19th century
Funeral services for a Rabbi, Jerusalem, 1903
An Israeli etrog or Greek citron, with pitam and gartel (ridge around the center)