Source:
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During the Ottoman period there was a Muslim village called Harbaj at this place. In 1162 A.H. (~1748 CE) it was fortified by Zahir al-Umar, and traces of the wall still existed in the late 19th century. The village appeared as El Harchieh on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled in 1799.
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here about 30 inhabited houses. In the centre of the village was a large well, partly filled. In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described El Harbaj as "a small adobe village, on the plain, with a well to the north and olives to the east."
A population list from about 1887 showed that el Harbaj had about 75 inhabitants; all Muslims.
British Mandate period
Harbaj village
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Harbaj had a population 177, all Muslims.
Kfar Hasidim and the end of Harbaj
Kfar Hasidim was founded in 1924 by two groups of Polish Hasidic immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah, followers of Rabbi Yehezkel Taub and Rabbi Israel Hoffstein, the rabbis of Yablono and Kozienice.They bought land east of Haifa Bay with the help of Rabbi Yeshayahu Shapira of Hapoel Hamizrachi and established Nahalat Ya’akov and Avodat Yisrael, which later merged into Kfar Hasidim.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Hasidim
Poster of the Jewish National Fund - Settling of Chassidim in Palestine
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Poster on behalf of the Jewish National Fund. Tehnic Press, Kishinev, [ca. 1925]. Yiddish.
A poster on the settling of two groups of Chassidim in Palestine - a group led by Rabbi Yechezkel Taub, Rabbi of Jablonna, and a group led by Rabbi Yisrael Elazar Hopstein, Rabbi of Kozniece. Alongside the text are five photographs - a photograph of the Rabbi of Jablonna, photographs of Moshav Avodat Israel founded by Kozniece Chassidim, and more.
In 1924, some eighty families from two Chassidic groups, that of the Rabbi of Jablonna and that of the Rabbi of Kozniece, arrived in Palestine. They bought lands, with partial funding by the JNF, and in 1925 founded two adjacent moshavim: Avodat Israel for the Kozniece Chassidim and Nahlat Yaakov for the Jablonna Chassidim. Their attempts to establish a livestock farm and a crop farm encountered obstacles, among other things due to a lack of training in agricultural work and a lack of assistance from the Zionist national organizations and from Poland. Following appeals of the Rabbi of Jablonna and others, the JNF agreed to assist the settlers. In 1926 the JNF united the two moshavim into one, named Kfar Hasidim.
48X63 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Tears (some open) and filing holes, restored.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
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