Front Matter
Assan, Valérie
Front Matter - 2024.
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What were the trajectories and migratory experiences of the Jews who, at the end of the Algerian War of Independence, abruptly and definitively left their country? Historiography has associated their migration with the history of repatriation to the former colonial power. However, a significant proportion of the flows – around 9 % – went to the State of Israel. This article examines how, during the Algerian War, France’s Jewish institutions helped to strengthen national ties between Jews living on both shores of the Mediterranean and, conversely, kept them from emigrating en masse to Israel, to the great displeasure of the Jewish Agency, kept them from emigrating en masse to Israel, as was the case for Tunisian and Moroccan nationals at the time. What’s more, a comparison of public policies to assist migration and resettlement in the two countries reveals two forms of state intervention: protective in the case of France, and segregative in Israel. Using serial sources, this article focuses on the construction of the migratory project of Algerian Jews, the administrative practices that surrounded them and, through an unprecedented cartography, the places of their migration, all of which helped to mark their entry into the postcolonial era.
Front Matter - 2024.
13
What were the trajectories and migratory experiences of the Jews who, at the end of the Algerian War of Independence, abruptly and definitively left their country? Historiography has associated their migration with the history of repatriation to the former colonial power. However, a significant proportion of the flows – around 9 % – went to the State of Israel. This article examines how, during the Algerian War, France’s Jewish institutions helped to strengthen national ties between Jews living on both shores of the Mediterranean and, conversely, kept them from emigrating en masse to Israel, to the great displeasure of the Jewish Agency, kept them from emigrating en masse to Israel, as was the case for Tunisian and Moroccan nationals at the time. What’s more, a comparison of public policies to assist migration and resettlement in the two countries reveals two forms of state intervention: protective in the case of France, and segregative in Israel. Using serial sources, this article focuses on the construction of the migratory project of Algerian Jews, the administrative practices that surrounded them and, through an unprecedented cartography, the places of their migration, all of which helped to mark their entry into the postcolonial era.
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