Ottoman period In 1799, in the late
Ottoman period, Um Junieh was noted as "ruins" on the map of
Pierre Jacotin. In 1875,
Victor Guérin noted Um Junieh as a village. In the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine in 1881 Umm Junieh was described as having 250 inhabitants, all Muslim. They noted that it was possible that Umm Junieh was the place which
Josephus called Union. In the 1880s the land of Khirbat Umm Juni and Al-Manshiyya was bought on behalf of the
Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the
Baháʼí Faith. The Arab inhabitants continued to farm the land as
tenant farmers.
Degania In 1905-1907 the land was resold to the
Jewish National Fund. What were to become
Kibbutz Degania was established at Umm Juni, in part using existing Arab-made mud huts and for a while the Arab village and the Jewish one coexisted.
British Mandate era In the
1922 census of Palestine, there were 79 Muslim residents in Khirbat Umm Juneh, while no number is available for Al-Manshiyya.
Post 1948 In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is covered with grasses and a few palm and eucalyptus trees; no traces of buildings remain. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israelis." ==See also==