Contradiction between sources Hi all For now I ve removed this In 1840 an orthodox Jewish community constituted the largest single religious group in the city Grenville John Ashley Soames A history of the world from the 20th to the 21st century Routledge 2005 pg 456 ISBN 0415289556 I can not access the text and would like to see it I also think picking 1840 is arbitrary This source which provides a population table for Jerusalem from 1806 1945 on page 28 indicates that in 1838 the population was 11 500 people 4 500 Muslims 3 500 Christians and 3 000 Jews in 1846 the population was 17 173 6 100 Muslims 3 558 Christians and 7 515 Jews and that in 1851 it was 25 354 12 286 Muslims 7 488 Christians and 5 580 Jews Given the city had become an important administrative capital for the Ottoman empire in the 19th century its not suprising that there were new arrivals all the time from all three religious groups I don t think we need to focus on 1840 in isolation talk