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Saharan Jews and the fate of French Algeria /

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 this book, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Sarah Abrevaya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: The lost archive
  • Introduction: inventing indigeneity
  • Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past
  • Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law
  • Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair
  • Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period
  • Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world
  • Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure
  • Conclusion: colonial shadows
  • Epilogue: dark matter.