Arabs of the Jewish Faith

The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria

• Author(s): Joshua Schreier,
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Pages: 256
• ISBN_10: 0813550351
  ISBN_13: 9780813550350
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Modern / 19th Century , Social Science / Jewish Studies ,

Description:... Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.