From the Pages of the Defter (ص 256)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 256)

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the seed and receive one-fifth of the harvest.*°° This arrangement could have existed
between the Shawars and the villagers in Jamrura whether Hajj Ibrahim was the permanent
or temporary owner of the property. Given the fractional divisions, we can assume that he
possessed the rights to one-fifth of the harvest by himself, and he and each of his brothers
together possessed the rights to another one-fifth of the harvest. Given tacir Hajj Ibrahim’s
brothers’ professions as stated in 1905, it is not unlikely that the Shawars were in the
business of providing villagers with loans to finance their plantings, then buying their
harvests and selling them in Hebron, either in the younger brothers’ stores or to other urban
merchants.
| have not found records to indicate whether this mortgage was repaid or whether
Hajj Ilbrahim and his brothers gained permanent title to these lands and, perhaps, sold them.
It is worthwhile to note that the family has held on to at least some Jamrura property over
the years. According to a news story in al-Ayyam In early 2006, the Shawar family was
among the owners of Jamrura lands who were notified that their olive trees were to be
uprooted so that The Separation Wall could be extended. In an interview, family members
°° Michael Fischbach, “State, society, and land in ‘Ajlun (northern Transjordan), 1850-1950”, PhD
dissertation, Georgetown University (1992): 207.
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