Tighrinna

Tighrinna, also known as Harit il Yhud (The Jewish Quarter), was a Jewish village located in the Gharyan District of northern Libya. Several hundred metres separated it from Menzel Tighrinna, where the Muslim population lived.^[1] In 1943 there were 343 Jews living in the village, which had two synagogues and Jewish cemetery.^[1] The population lived in underground caves.^[2] In 1943, the British occupied the region. Soon after, events in Palestine sparked rioting by local Muslims who looted and burnt of Jewish homes.^[3] This led to the depopulation of the village, with refugees fleeing to Israel between 1948-51.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Harvey E. Goldberg (1972). Cave dwellers and citrus growers: a Jewish community in Libya and Israel. CUP Archive. p. 12. ISBN 9780521084314. http://books.google.com/books?id=2w49AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
2. ^ From the Ottoman conquests to the present time. BRILL. December 1981. p. 174. ISBN 9789004062955. http://books.google.com/books?id=idEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174. Retrieved 6 March 2011. 
3. ^ Shmuel Spector; Geoffrey Wigoder (2001). The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J. NYU Press. p. 429. ISBN 9780814793763. http://books.google.com/books?id=MFn3KeENnA0C&pg=PA428. Retrieved 6 March 2011.