Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria
French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 8 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350534223
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 0 bw illus 700
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Short description:
A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.
MoreLong description:
Did Jewish scholars develop new strategies of applicability and governance to adapt to and survive in French-colonial Algeria? How did indigenous rabbis respond to changes in their socio-political environment? Did it affect the way in which they understood and addressed their juridical roles and, if so, to what extent?
This study explores these questions and furthers the growing discourse about indigenous Jews in colonial Algeria. Vered Sakal adopts a Halachic perspective to examine the transition from Muslim-Ottoman to French-liberal-colonial politics.
Sakal considers how 19th century Algeria was an environment in which Jews are both colonizers and colonized, and in which colonial officials actively intervene with the communal and private lives of indigenous Jews, and the way they practice their Jewishness - at the home, the school, and the synagogue.
Through the analysis of several historical sources, such as French legislation and scholarship from the colonial era, a survey written by two French Jews about the Jews of Algeria, and the Halachic writings of indigenous Algerian rabbis, the varied genres covered in this book come together to portray a unique religio-political environment.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Evaluations and Coerced Religious Revolutions - the Altaras and Cohen Report
2. Legislation and Coerced Religious Revolutions
3. A Critical Reading of Abraham Ankawa's Kerem Hemer
4. Synagogue and the [Colonial] City: A Responsum by Rabbi David Mu'ati
Conclusion
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