page_title: Zikhron Tuvya
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Zikhron Tuvya / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Beit Knesset HaBushim (Courtyard of the Bushrim Synagogue), 12 Zikhron Tuvya Street, Jerusalem, Israel
context_page_description: Zikhron Tuvya, also spelled Zichron Tuvia, is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem. Founded in 1890, it was the twenty-third Jewish neighborhood to be established outside the Old City walls. The neighborhood consisted of parallel row-houses facing each other across a wide street, today named Zikhron Tuvya Street. Initially populated by tradesmen and workshops, it became a residential neighborhood after the 1920s. It is now part of the larger Nachlaot neighborhood.
context_section_description: Zikhron Tuvya was founded in 1890. It was the twenty-third Jewish neighborhood established outside the Old City Walls, and the eleventh neighborhood founded by Yosef Rivlin. Other founders included Rabbis Nota Zvi Hamburger, David Boymgarten, Shmuel Zukerman, and Mechel Leib Katz. Moshe Meltzer Kantrowitz purchased the land from the Arabs of Lifta.
  The initial plan called for the construction of 100 homes, but in the end only 30 to 40 were completed. The neighborhood, designed by Conrad Schick, was laid out as two parallel rows of single-family houses fronted by small courtyards, with the entrances to the houses facing each other across a wide expanse.
  By 1897 the neighborhood had 30 houses. A 1916 survey reported 92 houses and 298 residents in Zikhron Tuvya.
  In its early years, Zikhron Tuvya was home to tradesmen rather than families. Workshops of "tailors, tinkers, locksmiths, shoemakers and blacksmiths" filled the street. Business was brisk, while to the north, in an empty lot next to the Beit Ya'akov neighborhood on Jaffa Road, a "disorganized" shuk (open-air market) of Arab vendors operated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When this shuk was turned into a permanent Jewish market known as Mahane Yehuda Market in the late 1920s, business slowed in Zikhron Tuvya. Eventually the workshops closed and families took up residence on the street.
  Kollel Reisin from White Russia purchased the courtyard at number 35 for occupancy by 18 people. The words חצר כולל רייסן (Courtyard of Kollel Reisin) are engraved on the lintel of the gate to the courtyard.  Today the apartments in this courtyard are rented from the kollel by Haredi families.
  The Bushrim Synagogue, founded in 1904 on behalf of olim from Bushehr, Persia, still operates at 12 Zikhron Tuvya Street. The room for the synagogue was part of the apartment of Rachel bat Shlomo, who moved into another room in her courtyard after donating this space. The Torah ark in this synagogue faces south rather than the traditional eastern orientation.
caption: Courtyard of the Bushrim Synagogue
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