Kerem Avraham
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Kerem Avraham (lit. Avraham's Vineyard) is a neighbourhood in central Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1852.
Kerem Avraham had its beginnings in a training farm for Jews established by James Finn, British Consul in Ottoman Palestine, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Finn. Finn, a devout Christian, did not engage in missionary work during his years in Palestine, but he was a great believer in productivity, an ideology that was very much in vogue at the time. At this farm in Kerem Avraham, the Jews would be trained in agriculture and become productive citizens, rather than relying on the halukka, i.e., the distribution of charity from abroad, which was the norm in Jerusalem in those days.[1]
Israeli novelist Amos Oz grew up in Kerem Avraham in the 1940s. Most of the residents of Kerem Avraham today are ultra-Orthodox[2]
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