Ticho House (Hebrew: בית טיכו, Beit Tikho) is a historical home in Jerusalem, now a memorial house administered as part of the Israel Museum and also hosting temporary exhibitions, which also houses an Italian café. It was one of the first homes built outside the Old City walls in the 19th century.[1][better source needed]
History
editThe Aga Rashid villa, as it was originally known after the man who built and owned it, was raised in the early 1860s outside the Old City walls. It was typical of the urban Ottoman architecture of the time, with vaulted ceilings, thick walls and a large central hall flanked by side rooms. It was surrounded by a spacious garden. Over the years, rooms were added and the house was extended at the front and back.[1]
Among its first occupants was the family of the antiquities dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira, whose daughter Myriam Harry described growing up there in her memoir, "La petite flle de Jerusalem."[1] The family lived there between 1873 and 1883.[2]
In 1924, Dr. Abraham Albert Ticho, an ophthalmologist, and his wife, Anna Ticho, an artist, bought the house.[3] Dr. Ticho was stabbed and seriously wounded during the 1929 Palestine riots.[4] Thousands of Jews, Christians and Arabs prayed for his recovery. When he was able to return to work, he opened a new clinic on the first floor of Beit Ticho and continued to take patients there until his retirement in 1950.[5] Trachoma was widespread in Jerusalem at the time, and he often treated hundreds of patients per day.[6]
The Tichos hosted local and British government officials in their home, as well as artists, writers, academics and intellectuals.
Anna Ticho bequeathed the house and its contents, including her husband's Judaica collections and library, to the Israel Museum.[6]
See also
edit- Street of the Prophets and Jaffa Road, important nearby thoroughfares
References
edit- ^ a b c Ticho House, Jerusalem at israel-in-photos.com. Re-accessed 28 May 2024.
- ^ Hershel Shanks (2002). "Fakes!". Archaeology Odyssey 5:05, Sep/Oct 2002. Biblical Archaeology Society. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
- ^ Peeking through the highrises: famed Jerusalem street's old architectural glories, Moshe Gilad for Haaretz, Aug 29, 2012 (subscription needed as of 2024).
- ^ Physicians group protests Ticho attack, 19 Nov 1929, JTA. Re-accessed 28 May 2024.
- ^ Ticho House - Israel Museum Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b The days and years of the Tichos, Judy Siegel-Itzkovich for The Jerusalem Post, 21 February 2015. Re-accessed 28 May 2024.
External links
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- Official website (active, May 2024)
- Guide with photos, map, café and museum details etc., at israel-in-photos.com (active, May 2024)