The history of the Jews in Libya stretches back to the 3rd century BCE, when Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, a part of the ...

Not a single Jew remains in Libya today. Though Libya had been home to a Jewish community for thousands of years, and though the Jews had lived under Greek, ...

In 1911, when Ottoman rule over Libya ended and Italian control began, the Jewish population there numbered 20,000 people.

Once home to a large and thriving Jewish community, Libya is now empty of Jews due to anti-Jewish pogroms and immigration to Israel.

Italian Libya had two large Jewish communities, one in the western district of Tripolitania, and mainly in its capital Tripoli, and the other in the eastern ...

In the late 1940s, the Jewish community of Libya was the smallest in the North Africa. An estimated 30,000 Jews lived in the Tripolitanian region and some 6,000 ...

Although all populations of our study are very closely related, we report that the Libyan Jews have been genetically isolated from other Jewish groups, ...

29 авг. 2023 г. · While Jews were persecuted and subjected to antisemitic laws under dictator Benito Mussolini — Libya was an Italian colony — and around 700 died ...

In mid-twentieth century, about 38,000 Jews lived in Libya: approximately 32,000 in Tripolitania and the rest in Benghazi and other coastal towns of Cyrenaica.

The Jewish community of Libya traces its origin back to the third century BCE, at which time Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, ...