| IF MY MEMORY DOES NOT BETRY ME, THE FIRST QUARTER TO BE BUILT OUTSIDE
THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM WAS "YEMIN MOSHE", THE QUARTER BUILT BY THE
PHILANTROPIST SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE; YEMIN MOSHE IS "THE RIGHT HAND
OF MOSHE" AND WAS NAMED SO AFTER MOSES MONTEFIORE. THIS WAS BEGUN
IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, BY 1880 APPROX.
A FEW YEARS LATER, "MEAH SHEARIM" (100 GATES) WAS BUILT AND WAS
A VERY INNOVATIVE QUARTER, IT WAS UNHEARD OF EXTREME RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
TO SETTLE OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CITY; TODAY MEAH SHEARIM IS PERHAPS
THE MOST ULTRACONSERVATIVE QUARTETR OF JERUSALEM.
BOTH YEMIN MOSHE AND MEAH SHEARIM WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT ALMOST AS
FORTRESSES, WITH HIGH WALLS SURROUNDING THEM AND IRON GATES, WHICH
SHOWS THE CONDITIONS OF THE LIFE OUTSIDE THE CITY'S WALLS, THE TURKISH
GOVERNMENT THEN WAS VERY INNEFFECTIVE IN KEEPING ORDER AND SAFETY
OF THE CITIZENS. THE MOVE TOWARDS SETTLEMENT OUTSIDE THE OLD CITY
WALLS WAS PROMOTED BY THE SANITARY CONDITIONS WITHIN.
REGARDS,
JUAN-CARLOS
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| My apoloigies to you all for the supposed "shouting".
Here, in Israel, we are used to use our keyboards in Uppercase for
English letters and Lowercase for Hebrew. As a habit, I begun typing
UPPERCASE, but with no shouting intentions, as you can understand
from the text. If you'd like, think I was trying to talk with someone
hard of hearing....
Regards,
Juan-Carlos "Shouting" Kiel
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