Background
Grossman, David was born on February 13, 1934 in Turin, Italy. Son of Eliyau Eliezer and Judith (Lichtenstein) Grossman.
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This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing the historical processes which generated them. Using the historical records of Palestine (Eretz Israel), David Grossman reviews the settlement processes of bedouins (sedentarization and nomadization), Arab peasants (settlement fixation, migration, and frontier expansion of fallahin), and early Jewish settlers. Past records are traced back to the biblical period, and a survey of the literature dealing with British evidence of rural processes and settlement in medieval times is presented for comparison--sharpening Grossman's particular approach to the subject. The introduction provides a review of the literature and a discussion of the various approaches to the interpretation of rural spatial processes. It evaluates theoretical models and concludes with a simple model functioning as a hypothetical basis for the rest of the book. The following two chapters are devoted to the British colonization process, which, unlike the Palestinian one, can be traced in a fairly uninterrupted manner to its Anglo-Saxon roots. Next are chapters detailing the settlement processes and process patterns in Palestine, concluding with a reexamination of theoretical models in light of empirical evidence. Rural Process-Pattern Relationships considers subjects central to both historical geography and rural geography, representing a unique approach of interest to a wide range of scholars.
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This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (1917-1948). The book focuses on demography, specifically migrations, population size, density, growth, and the pattern of distribution in rural Palestine before the inception of Jewish settlement (1882). Grossman traces little-known Muslim ethnic groups who settled in Palestine’s rural areas, primarily Egyptians, but also Algerians, Bosnians, and Circassians. The author argues that the Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-third that of the Arab core areas; in the period studied, the decline in per-capita rural Arab farmland was mainly due to overall population growth, not displacement of Arabs; economic development suffered largely because of violent disturbances and natural disasters; the pattern of growth of Egyptian and other Muslim groups was similar to that of the Jews. The main conclusions of this study note that the size of the rural Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-tenth of that which occupied the Arab core zones; most Egyptian settlement areas coincided with those of the Jewish zones; between 1870 and 1945, the decline of Arab farmland was mainly due to Arab population growth rather than Jewish land acquisitions; and most migrants (Jewish and Muslim) settlement zones were leftovers characterized by some form of resource disability.
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Grossman, David was born on February 13, 1934 in Turin, Italy. Son of Eliyau Eliezer and Judith (Lichtenstein) Grossman.
Bachelor of Science, New York University, 1961; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1968.
Instructor geography Hunter College, New York City, 1963-1967. Assistant professor Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 1967-1969. Professor Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, since 1969.
( This volume examines the relationships between rural se...)
( This volume explores the distribution of the rural popu...)
Served with Israeli Army, 1955-1957. Member Association American Geographers, Israel Geography Association (head rural geography section 1987-1990). International Geographic Union (commission member dynamics of marginal and critical regions), Regional Science Association.
Married Marcia Bialick, November 24, 1959. Children: Benjamin D., Hannah E., Ephraim S., Amihai G.