THE JEWS OF NORTH AFRICA IN FACE OF NAZI GERMANY

Was there a “Shoah” involving Jews from North Africa?

People are generally surprised to hear of the Shoah in relation to the Jews of North Africa, as the Nazis occupied only part of this region, the rest being in the hands of the Allies. For the Jews, the war was indeed short, and extermination measures were nonsystematic. Nonetheless, here too they experienced persecution.

No previously published work had examined the issue in its entirety. Dan Michamn and Haim Saadoun, have brought together the top international specialists to treat this question. This book examines Nazi ideology in North Africa and the extent of antisemitism before and during the war, then analyzes the behavior of local populations towards Jews in order to answer this central question: was there a “Shoah” for the Jews of North Africa?

Israeli historian, professor at the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at Yad Vashem, Dan Michman is the author of many noted books, including De la mémoire de la Shoah dans le monde juif (The Memory of the Shoah in the Jewish world, CNRS Editions, 2008) and The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Israeli historian, professor of history at the Free University of Tel Aviv, Haim Saadoun was a contributor to Le monde sépharade, histoire et civilisation (The Sephardic world, history and civilization, Seuil, 2006)

Published with the support of Yad Vashem and the Ben-Zvi Institute.