ABSTRACT

This article discusses the offer made by Cemal Pasha in 1915 to Albert Antébi to sell the area in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem in order to dismantle the nearly thirty houses owned by the Moroccan inhabitants of the Maghrebi Quarter and create a space ‘reserved for the prayers of the Jewish people’. European Jews had already sought to purchase the same area from the Ottomans for several decades but had been denied, a situation that did not change under British rule despite the support given to the Jews with the Balfour Declaration. After the 1929 riots in Palestine, any possibility of acquiring the Western Wall or converting the Maghrebi Quarter into a plaza was postponed. This article will address relevant correspondence available at the Zionist Archives that chronicles this decades-long effort and discuss the questions relating to failure and secrecy. The individuals involved took an oath promising never to discuss this business out of concerns about revealing divisions among Zionists in relation to holy places and symbols.

中文翻译：

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世纪交易？1916 年 Cemal Pasha 试图出售西墙

摘要

这篇文章讨论了 Cemal Pasha 于 1915 年向 Albert Antébi 提出的出售耶路撒冷西墙前的区域的提议，以拆除马格里比区的摩洛哥居民拥有的近 30 所房屋，并为犹太人的祈祷”。几十年来，欧洲犹太人已经寻求从奥斯曼帝国购买同一地区，但遭到拒绝，尽管贝尔福宣言给予犹太人支持，但在英国统治下这种情况并没有改变。1929 年巴勒斯坦骚乱后，任何获得西墙或将马格里布区改建为广场的可能性都被推迟了。本文将讨论犹太复国主义档案馆提供的相关信件，这些信件记录了这一长达数十年的努力，并讨论了与失败和保密有关的问题。由于担心暴露犹太复国主义者之间在圣地和象征上的分歧，相关人员宣誓承诺永远不会讨论这件事。