The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

196 · Rachel Simon

3. Simon, “The Jews of Libya,” 31–32.


4. Renzo De Felice, Jews in an Arab Land: Libya, 1835–1970 (Austin: University
   of Texas Press, 1985), 168ff.


5. Ibid., 185ff.


6. A. L. Arbib, The Legal Status of the Jews in Libya (Bat-Yam: Association of
   Libyan Jews in Israel, 1984), 5, 19–20 (Hebrew).


7. Simon, “The Jews of Libya,” 8–9.


8. Hacohen, Higgid Mordecai, 168–69; Frigia Zuaretz et al., eds., Yahadut Luv
   (Tel-Aviv: Committee of Libyan Communities in Israel, 1982), 71; Simon, “The
   Jews of Libya,” 8, 10.


9. Rachel Simon, “It Could Have Happened There: The Jews of Libya during
   the Second World War,” Africana Journal 16 (1994): 394–96.


10. De Felice, Jews in an Arab Land, 191–92.


11. Arbib, Legal Status, 5; Report, 25 February 1949, British Public Records
    Office (PRO), Foreign Office (FO), 371/73793.


12. Yalquṭ ha-Mizraḥ ha-Tikhon, September/October 1949, 20.


13. Arbib, Legal Status, 6.


14. I. Eisenberg, “The Worsening Condition of Libyan Jews,” Bi-tefuṣot ha-
    golah (September 1961): 52; De-Felice: 267–68.


15. Simon, “The Jews of Libya,” 29; The Jew (Hebrew periodical published in
    London), 22 November 1906, 18 July 1907.


16. The Jew, 19 June 1906.


17. Simon, “The Jews of Libya,” 29–31.


18. Ibid., 19, 25–26; A. Almaleh, “Among the Cave Dwellers of Tripolitania”
    (Hebrew), Hed ha-Mizraḥ (26 March 1943): 8.


19. Almaleh, “Cave Dwellers,” 1943: 8; A. Almaleh, “The Pogrom Towns in
    Tripolitania” (Hebrew), Hed ha-Mizraḥ (23 November 1945): 6–7 (21 December
    1945): 8, (28 December 1945): 9.


20. Simon, “It Could Have Happened There,” 392–93, 396–98.


21. De Felice, Jews in an Arab Land, 192 ff.; Zuaretz et al., Yahadut Luv, 207–27;
    PRO, FO 371/45394, 371/45395, 371/45396, 371/53509, 371/69374; Central Zi-
    onist Archives (CZA) S5/797, S5/1396, S25/5217, S25/6457, Z4/15169.


22. Sh. Auerbach, 4 July 1948, CZA, S32/1069; Report from 21 June 1948,
    PRO, FO 371/69422, 160/98; De Felice, Jews in an Arab Land, 223–25.


23. Dr. I. Schwarzbart, Report, 10 May 1949, CZA, S20/556.


24. Ha-Ṣofeh, 21 and 22 November 1949; Eisenberg, 53.


25. Report from 21 June 1948, PRO, FO 371/69422, 160/98; ha-Ṣofeh, 18, 21,
    and 22 November 1949.


26. Zuaretz et al., Yahadut Luv, 262–96; Rachel Simon, “From ‘Zion Circle’ to
    Realized Zionism: Jewish Emigration from Libya during the Twentieth Cen-
    tury,” Shorashim ba-Mizraḥ 3 (1991): 306.


27. Simon, “From ‘Zion Circle,’“ 307; British Foreign Office to the governor
    of Benghazi, 31 January 1949, PRO, FO 371/73906.


28. Simon, “From ‘Zion Circle,’“ 332; ha-Ṣofeh, 18 November 1949.