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North Africa
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Jews of Algeria: From Ancient Presence to French Citizenship to Exile
The story of Algerian Jewry — ancient roots, French colonization, the Crémieux Decree, Vichy betrayal, independence in 1962, and the mass exodus that erased a community.
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Jews of Libya: From Ancient Cyrene to Final Exile
The story of Libyan Jewry — ancient Greek-era origins, Italian colonial rule, WWII under the Axis, pogroms of 1945 and 1948, expulsion after 1967, and a diaspora that remembers.
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Jews of Tunisia: One of Africa's Oldest Jewish Communities
From the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba to the French protectorate and beyond, Tunisian Jewry maintained one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world — until most emigrated to Israel and France.
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