315394A.077-petition
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Cohen, Henry, Reverand
label: Collection Donor
content: Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015
label: Collection Donor
content: Harris, Michael
label: Collection Donor
content: Deinard, Ephraim
label: Collection Donor
content: Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940
label: Collection Donor
content: Luchs, Leopold
label: Collection Donor
content: Lipkowitz, Sylvia E.
label: Collection Donor
content: Marks, Michael Neil
label: Collection Donor
content: Marks, Cara Goldberg
label: Collection Donor
content: Howland, S. S.
label: Collection Donor
content: Hartogensis, Henry S.
label: Collection Donor
content: Krauss, S., Father
label: Collection Donor
content: Kantrowitz, J.H.
label: Collection Donor
content: Neeman, Zipora
label: Collection Donor
content: Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923
label: Collection Donor
content: Sulzberger, S.
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content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection
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content: Division of Cultural History Judaica Collection / Series 1: Documents
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919
container: label: Container
content: Box 12, Folder 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A petition, dating from April-May 1919, written by impoverished Jews of Jaffa to American philanthropists asking aid (from American philanthropists or Palestine settlement organization) in the construction of housing for the poor of the cityt.  The petitioners state that they are obliged to move monthly, the rents keep going up and there are no lodgings to be had because of the influx of new and old settlers.  According to the letter on back, the letter was handed to David Menahem Deinard for translation to his brother (cousin?) Ephraim Deinard.  David M. Deinard notes that rents are up many times what they were before the war and that property owners rent by the month and then double the price. The authorities are indifferent. He wonders whether shelters for the poor could not be built in Jaffa as they were (by wealthy Russians) in Jerusalem (or some kind of low-cost housing) before the city is inundated by Romanian and Russian immigrants and land values get out of reach. D. M. Deinard concludes by asking whether other things mailed the precious month were received. Thirty signatories to petition.