Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Sarah Abrevaya.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Local Subjects:

History.

Summary:

Saharan Jews and the 'Bate of French Algeria unearths the story of the Mzabi Jews, a Saharan group largely forgotten by history who faced remarkably harsher treatment under French colonial rule than their Jewish counterparts to the north. Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Sarah Abrevaya Stein offers a vivid account of colonial imposition on an ancient desert community caught in the throes of Algeria's struggle for sovereignty, and of how their struggles reverberate in the postcolonial era. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Anthropology and the Ghost of the Colonial Past 19

2 Jews Northern and Southern: The French Annexation of the Mzab and the Boundaries of Colonial Law 41

3 Governing Typologies: From the Conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus Affair 57

4 Contested Access: Conscription, Public Health, and Education from the Fin de Siècle through the Interwar Period 75

5 Saharan Battlegrounds: From the Vichy Regime to a Postwar World 95

6 Oil, the Algerian War of Independence, and Competing Stories of Departure 116.

ISBN:

9780226123745

022612374X