Summary
Jaffa pharmacologist who returned from Beirut on 15 October 1950 by family reunification, inherited the family pharmacy in al-‘Ajami, and whose testimony Manna uses in Chapter 6 as a eulogy for the “Bride of the Sea” swallowed by Tel Aviv (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.230-231).
Details
- Jaday finished high school at the Collège des Frères in 1943 and studied pharmacology at St. Joseph University in Beirut; he did not stop his studies when the fighting began, and his father arranged a family-reunification request for his return to Jaffa, approved in 1950 (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.230).
- He returned via Ra’s al-Naqura in a Red Cross car on 15 October 1950, found life in al-‘Ajami depressing after Beirut, and was dissuaded by his sick mother and elderly father from leaving again for a Paris PhD; he worked in the family pharmacy for ten years after his return (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.230-231).
- His testimony records the elite’s departure: Emergency Committee member Hasan Barakat “owned plantations which he sold, and emigrated because he found great difficulty in staying and participating in rebuilding Jaffa,” and of the one thousand Armenians who lived in Jaffa up to 1950, all but a very few had departed (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.231).