User:Tiamut/Abu Kabir

As a place

 * "Sâknet Abu Kebîr The settlement of Abu Kebir p.n.; (great father)" (c. 1885) The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected, Claude Conder


 * "According to the British Palestine Exploration Fund regional map of Jaffa, most of the city was made up of Egyptian-populated districts. "Saknet al-Mussariya" "Saknet Abu Kebir" "Saknet Hammad" and "Saknet Abu Darwish" were all settled by Egyptians who had accompanied the conquering army." (speaking of content of c. 1885 maps in 1984) The claim of dispossession: Jewish land-settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948, Aryeh L. Avneri.


 * "the border neighborhood of Abu Kebir" (description for c. 1948 made in 2005) Overthrowing geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the struggle for Palestine, Mark LeVine. (Contains relevant quote following Abu Kabir's depopulation from Ben Gurion about the importance in his view of preventing the return of Arabs refugees.)


 * "Apparently the first Arab house was blown up on the night of 7 December 1947 - in the village of Abu Kabir, on the outskirts of Jaffa ..." Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948, Meron Benvenisti, p. 102.


 * "Egyptian Muslims settled in Jaffa and its environs, founding, among others, the villages of Sakhanat al-Muzariyya (Manshiya), and Sakhanat Abu Kabir (later to become Giv'at Herzl in the Israeli period)." (founded as villages per source from 2006) Michael Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley, Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia, ISBN 1576079198, 2006, p. 200

Unclear

 * "a number of graves belonging to the ancient Jewish cemetery of Abu Kebir" (p.137)
 * "there is no doubt that this tomb complex belongs to the large Jewish cemetery at Abu Kebir, first because of its proximity to the grounds of Tel Aviv University (Abu Kebir campus) which contain many ancient tombs..." (p. 138)

Tel Aviv University
"Tel Aviv University is the outgrowth of two institutes at Abu Kebir, (Jaffa) for the teaching of Zoology and the Humanities, which were established in 1956. The University now [1969] has the following faculties: Humanities, Science, School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education, including a Department of Nursing, School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education, including a Department of Nursing, Social Science, including the Institute for Labor." 

Shapira section on the northern border

 * "Contractor Meir Getzel Shapira began constructing a middle-class neighborhood on the northern border of Abu Kabir (known today as the Shapira section)."

Russian church and monastery

 * (1965) "the Russian church and monastery near Abu Kebir"

Mikveh Israel

 * "the Jewish agricultural school of Mikveh-Israel, situated close to Sakenat Abu Kabnir" p. 164

Tombs

 * "The inhabitants of the neighbourhood are exploiting the tombs as quarries ; in fact, practically the whole village of Abu-Kebir and many houses in Jaffa ..." p. 168