Home›Sources›Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970SourcesJews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970Renzo De Felice, University of Texas Press, 1985Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/de-felice-jews-in-an-arab-land-libya.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/de-felice-jews-in-an-arab-land-libyaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-jews-in-an-arab-land-libya-1835-to-1970, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835 to 1970}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/de-felice-jews-in-an-arab-land-libya}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA 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.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (30 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1A 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.CitationAuthorWell-attestedRenzo De Felice 1PublisherWell-attestedUniversity of Texas Press 1Publication YearWell-attested1985 1Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monograph 1Cross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithLibya, Countries Well-attested 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..."Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Claims 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.Disposition By TopicWars & 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.Well-attested20ArticlesA Slow Administration and the Slow Decline It Set in MotionThe 1945 Tripolitania Pogrom, Five Days of Violence Against Libyan JewsWars & ConflictsThe 1945 Tripolitania PogromScholarly debate2Wars & ConflictsThe 1945 Tripolitania PogromConnected5ArticlesA Slow Administration and the Slow Decline It Set in MotionThe 1945 Tripolitania Pogrom, Five Days of Violence Against Libyan JewsWars & ConflictsThe 1945 Tripolitania PogromGeneral References3ArticlesA Slow Administration and the Slow Decline It Set in MotionThe 1945 Tripolitania Pogrom, Five Days of Violence Against Libyan JewsWars & ConflictsThe 1945 Tripolitania PogromComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year