The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 101)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 101)

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As for Ruppin’s estimate of about 85,000 Jews in 1914, McCarthy again
shows that these numbers were not based on Ottoman figures as Ruppin asserts,
who, as McCarthy suggests, had “little understanding of the Ottoman registration
system.”*? Moreover, McCarthy suggests that perhaps Ruppin, being a Zionist
colonization official, had a vested interest in inflating Jewish numbers. McCarthy’s
own estimate, reached by correcting Ottoman statistics for undercounting and a
critical analysis of the number of Jewish migrants and deportees, whose numbers
were exaggerated by Ruppin, derives a total figure of 57,000 Jews in 1914. This
includes the 39,000 Jewish citizens and the 18,000 estimated noncitizens. In other
words, Jews in 1914 represented 7.7 percent of the total population of about
740,000 (McCarthy’s estimate of 722,000 plus the 18,000 noncitizens).
Nonetheless, the number of European Jewish settlers (i.e., excluding the
Palestinian Jewish citizens) was too insignificant to have any meaningful impact on
the socioeconomic structure of the country. However, their impact, because of
their demand for land, was instrumental in the commoditization of land. These
early settlers, moreover, provided, by their trials and errors, important lessons for
subsequent settlers as to the appropriate forms of settlement conducive to their
goals.
“For a full analysis of these issues, see McCarthy, 17-24.
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