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Auteur(s) : Schreier, Joshua (1969-....)
Titre(s) : The merchants of Oran [Texte imprimé] : a Jewish port at the dawn of empire / Joshua Schreier
Publication : Stanford (CA) : Stanford university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-199 p.) : illustrations, cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Lien à la collection : Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Lasry, Jacob (1793-1869)
Commerçants juifs -- Oran (Algérie) -- 20e siècle
Juifs -- Oran (Algérie) -- 19e siècle
Commerce -- Algérie -- Oran (Algérie) -- 20e siècle
Administration -- Oran (Algérie) -- 20e siècle
Relations interethniques -- Oran (Algérie) -- 19e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780804799140. - ISBN 0804799148. - ISBN 9781503602168 (erroné). - ISBN 1503602168. - ISBN 9781503602168 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454760373
Notice n° :
FRBNF45476037
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Mediterranean Oran ; Rebuilding Oran : Jews, beys, and commerce, 1792-1830 ; Making money in a time of conquest ; Struggles for and between the merchants of Oran ; Jacob Lasry and the business of conquest ; From "Juifs de Gibraltar" and "Algerine Jews" to Israélites indigènes ; Conclusion : merchants, moralities and mythologies.
