Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria : The Anti-Jewish Uprisings in Constantine (August 1934)
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Joshua Cole, « Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria : The Anti-Jewish Uprisings in Constantine (August 1934) », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire, ID : 10670/1.efe8ae...
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The anti-Semitic riots in Constantine in August 1934 emerged from a dynamic in local politics brought by the French colonial regime’s attempt to offer a limited form of political citizenship to Algeria’s Muslim colonial subjects in the years after World War I. The effect of these reforms was to exacerbate local tendencies to think of political and social interests in ethno-religious terms, and to make social conflicts more likely. The government’s official reports in the aftermath of the riots nevertheless attributed the violence to the atavistic hatreds between Muslims and Jews that were allegedly a permanent part of the social landscape in North Africa. From the perspective of the colonial state, such an interpretation had the advantage of obscuring the fact that anti-Semitism was built into the political process in Algeria.
