Mahane Yehuda Market
Mahane Yehuda Market in the Israeli city of Jerusalem is the largest market in Israel with around 200,000 visitors a day. In Hebrew, the market is called שוק מחנה יהודה ( Shuk Mahane Yehuda , hence the short name "shuk").
Location, design
Mahane Yehuda Market borders on the Zikhron Yosef and Nachlaot districts to the south . It is still in the center of Jerusalem, about 1.9 km northwest of the Jaffa Gate , the main entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem . It is delimited to the outside by the streets Jaffa Street in the north, Agrippas Street (also Agripas Street) in the south, Beit Yaakov in the west and Kiakh Street in the east. The actual market streets Mahane Yehuda Street and Eitz Chayim Street (Etz Hayyim Street) run between Jaffa Street and Agrippas Street; to the side and between these two streets are numerous small alleys, which are often named after fruit or nuts. At the northern end, adjacent to Jaffa Street, there is still the so-called Iraqi Market, which was built around 1931 and named after immigrant Iraqi Jews who settled there with their businesses.
Mahane Yehuda Market is partly covered, partly an open-air market. One of the main streets, Eitz Chayim Street, is covered, like most of the narrow cross streets, while the relatively wide Mahane Yehuda Street is a common uncovered street. The roof, which was built at different times, is mostly made of lightweight construction and is completely translucent.
- The roofing of the market
Mahane Yehuda Street, uncovered
Eitz-Chayim-Strasse, roofed through to light
A cross street, non-translucent roof
A cross street, translucent roof
history
At the end of the 19th century, several new districts emerged outside of Jerusalem's old town , including Mahane Yehuda in 1887. This attracted some Arab traders from the old town. At the same time, the Beit Yaakov Market, a market for Jewish traders, which was soon named after the district of Mahane Yehuda, also came into being. The dealer stands were just improvised.
During the Ottoman rule (until around 1917) the market grew quite haphazardly and without infrastructure, and by the end of the 1920s, under the British Mandate (from 1920), the sanitary facilities were in such a desolate condition that the British authorities closed the market cleared. Over the next ten years, the market was gradually expanded and people began to equip it with permanent stands and buildings for the traders. The reopening is given as 1928. The original generous plans of the first governor of Jerusalem Ronald Storrs for a fundamental modernization of the market, which he made after 1920 and with the elaboration of which he commissioned the architect and urban planning consultant Charles Ashbee , active in Jerusalem at that time (1918-1922) , could, however, due to budget cuts cannot be implemented immediately. They were only addressed later and to a limited extent (as were numerous market expansions).
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The current appearance of the market is also influenced by a major restoration and structural redesign after 2000: the structural measures that the dealers took on their own initiative and were initiated by their Mahane Yehuda Merchants Association also concerned the opening of the market to other, medium-sized companies Layers and for the "new generation", as the chairman of the dealers' association intended. However, this has also led to the fact that since then one has also found partly concerned reports about the move into boutiques, delicatessen shops for connoisseurs, unspecific Mediterranean bistros and the like in the media and believes to find the causes for the changes in the character of the market in a "globalization" .
Mahane Yehuda Market has been the target of terrorist attacks several times in the past: on July 30, 1997 with 16 fatalities and 178 injured, on November 6, 1998 with 6 injured and on April 12, 2002 (during the second Intifada ) with 7 dead and 104 Injured.
offer
Mahane Yehuda Market is the largest, busiest, and most ethnically diverse free-standing market in Israel. The market with its dealers, the number of which varies between 250 and 350, is visited by around 200,000 people every day. The offer consists of vegetables and fruit, as well as spices and nuts; Meat and fish offers are also available as well as other foods. Typical products of local cuisine such as baklava , halva , pastries, shawarma , kibbeh , kebab , shashlik, knafeh and other products are offered at many stalls . There are also tea and coffee shops and bars in the market.
Simultaneously with the structural innovations after 2000, the market expanded its range of products to include entertainment areas and became the venue for various festivals, concerts, and cultural and art events that attract a large number of spectators. The well-known ones include the “Balabasta” festival, which has been taking place every Monday night every Monday evening since 2010, with offers of music, dancers, video art, etc. The market is also open during the other nights because of the supply of bars, restaurants and music is now considered a particular attraction of Jerusalem's nightlife.
Web links
- Website of the market (English)
Remarks
- ↑ The Hebrew term for market שוק is usually paraphrased with “shuk”; there are also numerous similar transcriptions from Arabic (or from the Iranian languages) such as "suq", "soq", "souk", "suk", "souq" etc.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Google Maps_Routenplaner, online at: google.de/maps/
- ↑ Machne Yehuda shuk map , online at: en.machne.co.il/.../map
- ↑ a b c Visiting the Mahane Yehuda Open Air Market , In: Arutz Sheva, online at: israelnationalnews.com/
- ↑ a b c The History of Shuk Machane Yehuda , website of the market, online at: en.machne.co.il/.../history
- ↑ Lev Ha'ir (Machane Yehuda and Nachlaot) , online at: jerusalem.muni.il / ... ( Memento from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A market and a bazaar , online (archived) at: go-jerusalem.de ...
- ↑ Shuk Mahane Yehuda - the New Trend in Jerusalem , online at: tiuli.com / ...
- ↑ Market Committee ׳ s Greetings , website of the market, online at: en.machne.co.il / ...
- ↑ a b c Linda Gradstein: Market makeover , The Jerusalem Post, June 12, 2012, online at: jpost.com / ...
- ↑ From cheap to chic - Jerusalem shuk goes upscale , in: jweekly, May 25, 2007, online at: jweekly.com / ... ; Shazif Invades the Shuk , Haaretz, October 12, 2005, online at: haaretz.com / ...
- ↑ Tahel Frosh: Aroma Versus Mahane Yehuda Market . In: Haaretz, July 28, 2008, online at: haaretz.com/
- ^ Victims of Mahane Yehuda Bombing , online at: mfa.gov.il / ... ; Terrorist Bombing in Jerusalem Mahane Yehuda Market , online at: mfa.gov.il / ... ; The Role of Palestinian Women in Suicide Terrorism , online at: mfa.gov.il / ...
- ^ Abigail Klein Leichman: Urban art spices up Jerusalem's famous Machane Yehuda market . Portal Jerusalem21c, October 30, 2011, online at: israel21c.org/
- ^ Abigail Klein Leichman: Gourmands discover Jerusalem's market . Portal Jerusalem21c, April 8, 2012, online at: israel21c.org / ...
- ↑ Jerusalem, Travel Guide, DuMont direkt, page 60, Ostfilden, 2nd edition 2015, online at: books.google.de / ...
- ↑ Mahane Yehuda - The Jerusalem Shuk (Outdoor Market) , online at: fonerbooks.com / ...
- ↑ Events at Shuk Machane Yehuda , website of the market, online at: en.machne.co.il/.../events
- ↑ Abra Cohen: Night Owls: Jerusalem After Dark . In: Time our Israel, May 31, 1914, online at: timeout.co.il/