Jarisha

Place in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine

Jarisha جرِيشة Jerisha, Jarush
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Etymology: Jerisheh, from "to pound" or "grind"^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Jarisha (click the buttons)
32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778
Palestine grid	132/167
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Area ^[2]
• Total	555 dunams (55.5 ha or 137 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	190^[2]^[3]
Current Localities	Yarkon 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

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

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

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

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]

Gallery

Seven Mills sign in Yarkon Park: “Nothing remains of the impoverished Jarisha village which was situated here in the past”
Jarisha village in the Map of Jaffa Tel Aviv Compiled, drawn and printed by the Survey of Palestin 1944
Jarisha (Jrishe) 1928 1:20,000
Jarisha 1945 1:250,000

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
^ ^a ^b ^c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
^ ^a ^b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
^ ^a ^b Mann, 2006, p. 246.
^ Ben-Tor and Greenberg, 1992, p. 246.
^ ^a ^b Khalidi and Elmusa, 1992, p. 246.
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 246
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 139; cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 246
^ Kiepert, 1856, Map of Southern Palestine
^ Deschelscheh, in Socin, 1879, p. 152
^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 137, also noted 38 houses at el−dscherische
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 251. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.246
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 265
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20
^ Mills, 1932, p. 14
^ "⁨במושבות ⁩ | ⁨הארץ⁩ | 14 מאי 1944 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 95 Also in Khalidi, 1992, p.246-247
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 145
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 247

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