Les juifs d'Algérie du décret Crémieux à la libération.
By: Épilogue par Pierre Paraf. Préf. du professeur Henri Aboulker. Postface de André Philip.
Publisher: Éditions du Centre
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Jews -- Algeria -- History
Description: Discusses the background to the Crémieux Decree (1870), which granted Algerian Jews French citizenship; anti-Jewish demonstrations between 1871-1900; the rise of antisemitism in the 1930s; the abrogation of the decree in 1940 by the Vichy regime; the expulsion of Jewish teachers and pupils from Algerian schools; the Vichy government's attempts to turn the Jews into a national minority; the application of the law on the status of the Jews in Algeria; Jewish youth in Algiers and the uprising of November 1942; Jewish internment camps in Algeria and Morocco; and the reintroduction in 1943 of the Crémieux decree. Notes the reluctance of the French High Commissioner, Henri Giraud, to implement the act with vigor.