Saharan Jews and the Fate 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 a desert community caught in the throes of Algeria’s struggle for sovereignty, and explores how their struggles reverberated in the post-colonial era.
Panel commentary by Joshua Schreier, Dept. of History, Vassar College and Aomar Boum, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA.
Panel moderated by Susan Slyomovics, CNES Interim Co-Director
A 2015-2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. Her award-winning scholarship includes Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Sephardi Lives: a documentary history, 1700-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2014), and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008). Stein’s forthcoming book is Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2016). With the support of the Guggenheim Foundation, she is now working on Family Papers: a Sephardi Journey Through the Twentieth Century.
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Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies