Language:
French
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,2 (2012) 107-128
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Examines the relations between Jews and Muslims in Algeria between 1940-43, as portrayed by Vichy's vigilant intelligence service. The security branch of the police force kept an eye on the activities of the local European, Muslim, and Jewish communities, focusing on their relations, especially those between Jews and Muslims, in order to prevent their deterioration, which might trigger general unrest. Conscious of the misery and frustration of the Muslim majority and the distress of the Jews in the face of Vichy's antisemitic policy, the French colonial authorities tried to cool things down and prevent all kinds of incidents. They feared confrontations between between Jews and Muslims, but also collusion. Shows that, with the exception of a few humantarian leaders, the Muslim population reacted with silence to the anti-Jewish measures imposed by Vichy. The abrogation of the Cremieux decree in 1940, the laws on the status of Jews in 1940-41, and the Aryanization in 1941-42 found an echo among Muslims only to the degree that they could hope to gain from them. Muslim opportunism, however, limitied itself to demands and did not express itself in violence.
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