A comment in The New Encyclopædia Britannica is enlightening: “The chief centres of Jewish population outside Palestine were in Syria, Asia Minor, Babylonia, and Egypt, each of which is estimated to have had at least 1,000,000 Jews. ”
ويقدَّر ان الجالية اليهودية في كل من مراكز التجمع السكاني هذه كانت تعُدّ مليون نسمة على الاقل » .‏