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The Merchants of Oran - A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Hardcover)
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The Merchants of Oran - A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a
Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile
elite during the transition to French colonial rule. Through the
life of Jacob Lasry and other influential Jewish merchants, Joshua
Schreier tells the story of how this diverse and fiercely divided
group both responded to, and in turn influenced, French colonialism
in Algeria. Jacob Lasry and his cohort established themselves in
Oran in the decades after the Regency of Algiers dislodged the
Spanish in 1792, during a period of relative tolerance and economic
prosperity. In newly Muslim Oran, Jewish merchants found
opportunities to ply their trades, dealing in both imports and
exports. On the eve of France's long and brutal invasion of
Algeria, Oran owed much of its commercial vitality to the success
of these Jewish merchants. Under French occupation, the merchants
of Oran maintained their commercial, political, and social clout.
Yet by the 1840s, French policies began collapsing Oran's diverse
Jewish inhabitants into a single social category, legally
separating Jews from their Muslim neighbors and creating a racial
hierarchy. Schreier argues that France's exclusionary policy of
"emancipation," far more than older antipathies, planted the seeds
of twentieth-century ruptures between Muslims and Jews.
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