The phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Tunisia, as respected Jewish and Muslim historians indicate, was alien to the Tunisian society before the arrival of the French in 1881. What I call the French "Protectorate crisis" not only undermined the relative autonomy the Jews had always enjoyed, but also established an unprecedented concept called 'Jewish element' indigenous Muslims and French settlers were taught to circumvent. Determined to "contain" what...
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