Trial access to Cambridge Archive Editions Online: Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974

UCL has trial access to Cambridge Archive Editions Online: Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974 until 12th June 2022

Minorities in the Middle East: Jewish Communities in Arab Countries, 1841-1974 is the online version of the 6 volume series featuring reports describing the arrangements and conditions for Jewish communities living under Islam, throughout the Arab world, from 1840 to 1974. The situation of Jewish communities has varied according to the country of habitation and the particular time period although it is thought generally to have deteriorated from 1800 with the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Up to 1948 more than a million Jews lived in the Muslim countries of the Middle East. By 1992, excluding the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, the number was only c.20,000. The documents provide a series of snapshots of history from which it is possible to ascertain something of the contemporary position of Jewish communities at particular points. Geographically the collection covers the Arab Middle East and the Maghreb countries, but excludes the (non-Arab) states of Turkey and Iran.

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