Summary
The Greek-Orthodox landowning family based in Beirut whose large sales recur in Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics as the type case of absentee-landlord sales to Zionist purchasers: in 1901 the Jewish Colonization Association acquired a very large tract in Tiberias from the family (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.10 / printed p.142).
Details
- The 1901 Tiberias acquisition, made under a concession under an Ottoman land code dating from 1867, formed a territorial core around which further purchasing enabled a contiguous block of Jewish-owned land to be established (PDF p.10 / printed p.142, note 27).
- The family’s large sale is also Wolfe’s example of the moneylender mechanism: fellaheen who fell behind on payments to moneylenders could have their land claimed as collateral and sold to Zionist purchasers, “as occurred in the case of the Sursuq family’s large sale” (PDF p.27 / printed p.159, note 93).
Related pages
Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, Jewish Colonization Association, Tiberias