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Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970

Renzo De Felice, University of Texas Press, 1985

A scholarly history of the Jewish community of Libya under Ottoman, Italian and independent rule, by the Italian historian Renzo De Felice, covering the community's legal and social position under Italian colonization, the November 1945 anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania and their location-by-location toll, and the community's eventual near total emigration by 1970. Drawn from Italian colonial and Libyan Jewish community archives.

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A peer-reviewed academic monograph by an Italian historian specializing in the period, drawn from Italian colonial and Libyan Jewish community archives, and treated in later scholarship (including Yad Vashem's own history pages) as the standard documentary source for the 1945 Tripolitania pogrom's location-by-location death toll.

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Author

Renzo De Felice 1

Publisher

University of Texas Press 1

Publication Year

1985 1

Source Type

academic monograph 1

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Libya

This source names Libya directly: "history of the Jewish community of Libya under Ottoman, Italian and independent rule, by the Italian historian Renzo De Felice, covering the community's legal and social position under Italian..."

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Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)

This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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Wars & Conflicts, 16 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 3 connected, 1 general references.
Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.