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 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

Harvey E. Goldberg (1972). Cave dwellers and citrus growers: a Jewish community in Libya and Israel. CUP Archive. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-521-08431-4. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
From the Ottoman conquests to the present time. BRILL. December 1981. p. 174. ISBN 978-90-04-06295-5. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
Shmuel Spector; Geoffrey Wigoder (2001). The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J. NYU Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8147-9376-3. Retrieved 6 March 2011.

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[Goldberg1972-1] Harvey E. Goldberg (1972). Cave dwellers and citrus growers: a Jewish community in Libya and Israel. CUP Archive. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-521-08431-4. Retrieved 6 March 2011.

[From_the_Ottoman_conquests_to_the_present_time-2] From the Ottoman conquests to the present time. BRILL. December 1981. p. 174. ISBN 978-90-04-06295-5. Retrieved 6 March 2011.

[SpectorWigoder2001-3] Shmuel Spector; Geoffrey Wigoder (2001). The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J. NYU Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8147-9376-3. Retrieved 6 March 2011.