The Ottoman Response to Laurence Oliphant’s Project of Jewish Settlement in Palestine (1879-1882)
Journal: Osmanlı Araştırmaları
Year: 2020

This paper focuses on Laurence Oliphant’s efforts to organize a Jewish settlement in Palestine between 1879 and 1882 and the Ottoman response to these efforts. After giving due information about Oliphant’s Restorationist (Christian Zi- onist) background in order to understand why he was so deeply interested in the question of Jewish settlement in Palestine, his proposal to the Ottoman government in 1879 on this issue is explained in some detail, based primarily on Ottoman ar- chival documents. T