Block (now known as Temple Square). Mormon immigrants from the East and Europe flocked to the “New Jerusalem,” the “City of the Saints,” in the Provisional State of Deseret (aBook of Mormonword interpreted as “honeybee”). TheCalifornia Gold Rushof 1849 contributed to the city’s ...
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It is followed by New York, with 1.9 million, Haifa 655,000, Los Angeles 621,000, Jerusalem 570,000, and southeast Florida 514,000.In 2001, 8 countries had a Jewish population of 100,000 or more; another 5 countries had 50,000 or more. There is not a single Diaspora country where ...
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Throughout almost 1900 years of exile, the Jewish people yearned to return to Israel, rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and restore the Temple service. Three times a day, observant Jews pray, "May the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily and in our day." Although Jewish people have always lived ...
the works of Johann Büssow12and Michelle U. Campos13on late Ottoman Jerusalem based on the censuses of the 1880s and early 1900s housed in the Israel State Archives; Daniel Ohanian, M. Erdem Kabadayı, and Mehmet Başkurt’s article14on c. 1907 Armenian census of Istanbul based on th...
estimated that the population of the city increased 10-fold between the early 1930s and early 1970s, and the city’s area grew to three times the size it had been in 1900. By the 1950s few traces of the old city were left, and most of those were destroyed in the 1975–90 civil ...