Arabs of the Jewish faith : the civilizing mission in colonial Algeria / Joshua Schreier.
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, actua...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Jewish cultures of the world.
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Table of Contents:
- Jews, commerce, and communities in early colonial Algeria
- Revolution, republicanism, and religion: responses to civilizing in Oran, 1848
- Synagogues, surveillance, and civilization
- Teaching civilization: French schools and Algerian midrashim, 1852-1870
- From Napoleon's Sanhedrin to the Cremieux decree: sex, marriage and the boundaries of civilization.