1889: Jerusalem = Jewish majority

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    From: Reading Eagle – [Sunday] Aug 18, 1889

    ‘Jews of Jerusalem’
    The Chosen People Returning to Palestine and the Holy City.

    Jerusalem, July — Thirty thousand out of the 40,000 people living in Jerusalem are Jews.
    And the Istaelites bid fair to become the predominant people in Palestine.

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    Jews were a majority of the residents in jerusalem since the 1700s or 1800s as a result of the Chasidim and Litvish who moved there from Europe.

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    True, ujm. The JewishVirtualLibrary has an interesting chart in a page titled:
    ‘Demographics of Israel: Population of Jerusalem
    (1844 – Present)’

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