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excluded from the statistics, or why Jerusalem’s many districts were excluded from the
Jerusalem province’s grain count discussed above. Neither author was aware of these facts.
Both Ruppin and Granott concluded that this data as they understood it was
evidence that affirmed that the majority of fallahin in the Jerusalem province (and all of
Palestine ) by this time were sharecroppers, and the majority of farmland in the hands of
718 The significance of this interpretation has been twofold. First, it relates
large landowners.
to the economic well-being of farmers. The claim that the majority of villagers were
subsistence farmers will be discussed in this chapter. Second, it refers to the degree of
desolation of the land and, concomitantly, the room available for Zionist immigration and
settlement on the land on the one hand and, on the other, the gap between Zionist and
Palestinian levels of production. Granott’s argument is clear: “...it was a predominantly
agricultural country with a backward system of tillage, whether from the point of view of the
exploitation of the soil or of the low standard of life it provided for the majority of its
inhabitants. ... the inhabitants were poor and few in numbers, and were not able to till more
than a portion of the land which was available for sowing. Large areas were, therefore, left
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desolate without any occupation ... In the following section, we will examine registered
agricultural holdings of Hebron’s villages according to the Emlak register of 1876.
*18 Granott (1952), 38-39.
219 Ibid., 34-35.
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