Books

A collection of translated sources and documents on the status and treatment of Jews in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia under Muslim rule from the medieval period to the twentieth century.

A collection of essays by Albert Memmi, the Tunisian Jewish writer, arguing that Jews in Arab lands lived as an oppressed minority and presenting Zionism as a movement of Jewish national liberation.

A scholarly study of the Judeo Arabic press, poetry, fiction, and translations produced by Tunisian Jews between 1850 and 1950, showing how print culture reflected their encounter with modernity and French colonial rule.

Albert Memmi's 1957 classic, written from his experience as a Jew in French colonial Tunisia, analyzes how colonialism shapes and damages both colonizer and colonized; essential background for understanding North African Jews caught between French rule and Arab nationalism.

A study of the Jews of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia under Vichy French rule and German occupation in World War Two, examining anti Jewish laws, internment, and the impact of the Allied landings.

Albert Memmi's semiautobiographical novel about Alexandre Mordekhai Benillouche, a poor Jewish boy from the Tunis hara who struggles to reconcile his Jewish, Arab, and French identities under colonial rule and during World War II.

Journalist Massoud Hayoun retells the lives of the grandparents who raised him, who grew up in Egypt and Tunisia and later moved through France to Los Angeles, to argue for an Arab Jewish identity he sees as erased by colonialism.