Saharan Jews And The Fate Of French Algeria
by Sarah Abrevaya Stein /
2014 / English / PDF
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The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the
perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to
some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the
south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In
The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the
perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to
some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the
south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. InSaharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah
Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria’s south were
marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the
sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been
in the postcolonial era.
, Sarah
Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria’s south were
marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the
sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been
in the postcolonial era.
Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries,
Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert
community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for
centuries. She paints an intriguing historical pictureof an
ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps
during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and
the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and
decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French
Saharan one,
Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries,
Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert
community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for
centuries. She paints an intriguing historical pictureof an
ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps
during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and
the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and
decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French
Saharan one,Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of
colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations,
which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of
colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations,
which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
