ABSTRACT
In time and place, Israel Dov Frumkin would have been a leading member of the Nahalat Shiva generation. The half generation that separated Frumkin from Rivlin and the other native Prushis was just enough to create subtle but significant differences in their perceptions of the Yishuv. Despite signs of economic development, the central reality of Yishuv life remained its dependence upon the outside world and primarily upon its European "hinterland." By 1875 significant demographic and economic changes had altered communal relationships in Jerusalem. By the 1860s and 1870s Jerusalem was becoming a decent-sized town with a modest, though much improved economy. Because Jerusalem would certainly be a major tourist destination, the authorities drafted thousands of villagers living along the Jaffa-Jerusalem route to smooth and widen the road and to build bridges and other earthworks over streams and valleys. Tiferet Yerushalayim represented the first attempt of the Havatzelet Camp to organize in a formal and public way.
