Photo Album: Jaffa’s Sea
Jaffa was a port town already during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The sea made Jaffa and there’s no Jaffa without its Mediterranean. Jaffans call their hometown “Mother of Strangers” because the city embraced everyone, including all the strangers who arrived at its shores. There’s the sea with fishermen and sailors, there’s Jaffa’s port with pilgrims, tourists and the export of Jaffa oranges. And then there is the beach that followed the blooming of business and growth of the urban city, the beach became a place of leisure. Jaffa’s port turned into the place where Jaffan were pushed to flee, and the spot of the turn of Jaffans to refugees.
A rare photograph treasure from Palestine: Frank Scholten was a wealthy Amsterdammer who traveled to Palestine between 1921-1923. He mainly stayed in Jaffa and his collection holds over 13.000 photographic prints. This archive is a high resolution an open source, feel free to use.
Jaffan fishermen, son and father and a group in a cafe by the sea, 1930 source Women for Palestine
Inherited craftsmanship means that the Jaffans have been fishing, boat designing and building, and sailing experts for about 5,000 years.
Miko Schwatrz, Haifa University Database, 1939-45
Sailing boat permission for small craft. The permit allows to sail in the Suez Canal, and Port Said. This permission was given to 56-year-old Musa Hassan Habakzeh, ‘Captain on a sailing boat’, a Palestinian man from Jaffa, 9 August 1943
Jaffa and its fishermen were cosmopolitan. The same Palestinian’s (captain of a sailboat in Yaffa/Jaffa) passport. Moussa Hassan Habkzeh and his wife marked here as Dilber Kridley (maiden surname) and their 3 children, February 4th, 1935
Postcard views from Jaffa
Postcard views from Jaffa
Postcard views from Jaffa
Building boats by hand in Jaffa by Miko Schwartz, Haifa University Database, 1939-1945
Old Jaffa Map, Palestine Remembered
A Palestinian boy in the water in Sarona, a suburb of Jaffa source Jaffa Mother of Strangers
Ottoman Imperial Archives, Jaffa, Palestine, 1677
Jaffa 1880, Palestine Remembered
Jaffa Port, Getty Image, 1898
Jaffa and Palestinian fish, source Facebook
Matson Collection Jaffa, before 1914
Ottoman Imperial Archives, Jaffa, 1916
Jaffan boat builder and fisherman, Miko Schwartz, Haifa University Database, 1939-45
Jaffa Ottoman Imp Archives, 1898
Drawing of Venice from an account of a journey from Venice to Palestine. The British Library. H/t the Public Domain Review.
Jaffa, Palestine
“Large photograph of Jaffa (1848) – This is believed to be the first photograph of the city of Jaffa”
Harbor of Jaffa, 1936
A 4-master, 2-funnel P.&O. liner of the type that Mabel’s trips to Palestine (www.simplonpc.co.uk) Mable Bent was among the passengers of the P.&O. Britannia (6525 tons) having been launched in 1887. “Mabel is on her way to Palestine again; the Holy Land being almost exclusively her focus after the death of her husband, the explorer Theodore Bent, in 1897.”
Lloyd’s Shipping Lines installed its agencies in 1853 in Palestine, and a British shipping company served Jaffa from 1848 to 1851.
“Al Audja Stream, Jaffa, 1880”
Al Auja River pours and meets the Mediterranean
Fishermen mending their nets. Source Palestine Remembered
Source Palestine Remembered
Jaffa’s northern beach, before 1914, source Jaffa48
Jaffa’s beach near the old town, 1923 source Jaffa48
Jaffa 1921-23 Frank Scholten, NINO
Jaffa Port, 1930, Palestine Remembered
Palestine Remembered
source Palestine Remembered
source Palestine Remembered
Jaffa Port, circa 1921-1926. (Courtesy of Nazarian Library, University of Haifa)
Jaffa, Frank Scholten 1921-23, NINO
Al Manshiyya Neighborhood, 1932
Leather processing by the sea was problematic because it produced a bad smell. The tanners had to move from the part in front of the living areas further away when the city needed its beaches.
Source Palestine Remembered
Occupation on the sea-route during the Big Revolt in 1936
Sea route of commerce going north Yaffa48