Jews in the 1930s

At a first glance, the Jewish experience in the 1930s seems similar to that of other non-Muslims. Like the Armenians and other Eastern Christians, the number of Jews also declined in the 1930s: while there had been 81,872 Jews in Turkey in 1927, ¹ there were 78,730 in 1935. ² Whereas the country’s overall population increased by 22.2 percent during this period, the Jewish population decreased by 2.6 percent. Many Jews left the country each year for the Americas, Palestine, or France.