The core team of Open Jerusalem is going to meet up altogether for the very first time! We are really excited to start a new phase of our project.
Here you can find our strictly scheduled seminar program:
Sat 27, 1st day: team building
Sun 28, 2nd day: scientific framework
Mon 29, 3rd day: timetable of future development
We will report day by day some results of every session. So please follow us here on our new blog.
It’s time to launch our new social network channels: facebook page and twitter account. You are more than welcome in visiting us in our virtual space. Feel free to give back to us your comments and feedbacks by email.
• Jerusalem is undoubtedly one of the cities that receives the most attention from historians, but the available bibliography, generally speaking, is plagued by three major flaws. First, most studies are devoted either to ancient and medieval history, or to the very recent history of the city (after the 1948 War). The Ottoman period (1517-1917) and the British Mandate (1917-1947) are decidedly less studied, as though only the Bible, the Crusades, and then the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were worthy of interest. The second flaw stems in part from the first : the overwhelming majority of existing studies focus on religious and geopolitical aspects of the city’s history and thus Jerusalem appears either as a jumble of shrines or as a battlefield. The third flaw is the cause of the other two: most Jerusalem historians limit their studies to the history of only one community of the Holy City, thus contributing to the creation of a segmented historical narrative that precludes a more sweeping view of the city.
10:30: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université de Laval - Québec): «Jusqu’où ouvrir Jérusalem? Curiosités, questions et apostilles sur le projet Open Jerusalem»
16:00: Marie-Alpais Torcheboeuf (Ecole nationale des Chartes): «Les archives de l’Ecole biblique et archéologique de Jérusalem: présentation du premier inventaire»
17:30: Merav Mack (CRFJ): works in progress (last visits, Christ Church Archives, Sephardi Community Archives, Questionnaire…)
18:00: Falestin Naïli (IFPO, member of Open-Jerusalem Team): works in progress (Minutes of Ottoman municipality 1892‐1915, Jerusalem Archives in Amman…)
18:30: Discussion (Discussant: Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois University)
9:30: Vincent Lemire, introduction : «Le projet archives municipales (2010-2013), une préfiguration du projet Open Jerusalem (2014-2019)?»
10:00: Falestin Naïli (IFPO Amman, member of Open Jerusalem Team) : «Jerusalem, Amman, Beirut and beyond: moving from the Jerusalem municipal archives to the collective memory of Ottoman Jerusalem in search of citadinité»
10:30: Yasemin Avci (Pamukkale Univ., member of Open Jerusalem Team): «Jerusalem Municipal Archives and Istanbul Imperial Archives in Osmänle: How to interconnect the two levels?»
9:30: Vincent Lemire (Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée): introduction: “Où sont les archives citadines de Jérusalem? Premiers jalons d’une recherche en cours”
10:00: Merav Mack (CRFJ): “The Jerusalems Archives and Libraries Survey (2007) and the Open-Jerusalem Project (2014-2019): similarities and differences”
10:30: Roberto Mazza (Western Illinois University): “To Unlock the Holy City: Questions, Themes and Sources to Rediscover the Late Ottoman and Early British Jerusalem”
11:00: Maria Chiara Rioli (Ecole normale supérieure de Pise): “Les archives de l’Eglise latine de Jérusalem sont-elles des archives citadines ?”
11:30: discussion
Photo: Nebi Musa festival outside of the Damascus Gate (between 1898 and 1917), Jerusalem, American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.
Opening Jerusalem Archives: for a connected history of 'Citadinité' in the Holy City (1840-1940)