Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine by Michelle Campos

Author:Michelle Campos [Campos, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kindle123
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010-11-04T04:00:00+00:00

Although the French Consulate claimed that the idea behind the SCP was spearheaded by “Christians of diverse rites,” the SCP was a mixed society. Leading members included the chamber of commerce president, Hajj Yusuf Wafa, Isma'il al-Husayni, Albert Antébi, and Selim Ayoub. Jerusalem's two parliamentarians were also rumored to be leading forces behind the society's founding.43 The SCP was a shareholders' bank, and it raised money from leading merchants, members of the chamber of commerce, and through the sale of smaller-scale shares to local Palestinians. Out of the six thousand individual shares sold by January 1909, five thousand had been sold to Muslims and Christians, while Jews purchased the remaining thousand. Another report stated that the largest group of shareholders was the investors affiliated with Hajj Yusuf Wafa (who owned two thousand shares); Isma'il al-Husayni and mayor Husayn Hashem al-Husayni (two thousand shares); Antébi, Tagger, and Abuchedid (two thousand shares); and Ayoub, Batatu, Jean, and Homsi G (two thousand shares).44

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