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The Merchants of Oran - (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) by Joshua Schreier (Hardcover)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Joshua Schreier is Professor of History at Vassar College.
  • 216 Pages
  • History, Jewish
  • Series Name: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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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.



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"Against a rising tide of large-scale histories of empire and colonization, Joshua Schreier's book calls attention to the compelling perspectives offered by individuals. Brought to life through Schreier's tenacious research, the Jewish merchant Jacob Lasry and his contemporaries give the reader a refreshing vantage point from which to rethink French colonialism in the western Mediterranean."--Benjamin Claude Brower "The University of Texas at Austin"

"In this eloquent evocation of the era of French colonization of Algeria told through the life of a Jewish merchant and community leader, Jacob Lasry, Joshua Schreier challenges the monolithic French colonial representation of 'indigenous' Jews as oppressed, backwards, and isolated--awaiting to be emancipated--by revealing how Algeria's cosmopolitan Jews were active agents in shaping and transforming Jewish society under French rule in Algeria."--Daniel J. Schroeter "University of Minnesota"

"Joshua Schreier challenges the conventional narrative of Jewish emancipation in Algeria at the hands of the French that began with the conquest in 1830, continued through the Crémieux Decree, and ended with the departure of Algeria's Jews for l'Hexagone during the Algerian War....Schreier not only exposes the contradictions inherent in the new colonial order but also shows how the habits and practices of Oran's merchant elite formed prior to the French conquest allowed its members, like Lasry, to adapt and to thrive under the new regime."--Jonathan G. Katz "H-Judaic"

"Schreier raises questions of great importance which deserve further exploration....[T]he history of French Algeria becomes much richer and much clearer when space is allowed for more than one perspective."--Julie Kalman "Journal of Modern History"

"This is an important and thought-provoking contribution to the history of Oran and its Jewish mercantile elite; a study that will interest scholars of empire, France, Jewish history, as well as those curious about the economies of port cities amid chaotic shifts in imperial governance."--Rachel E. Schley "H-France Review of Books"



About the Author



Joshua Schreier is Professor of History at Vassar College. He is the author of Arabs of the Jewish Faith (2010).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .92 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 216
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Jewish
Series Title: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Joshua Schreier
Language: English
Street Date: May 16, 2017
TCIN: 94401418
UPC: 9780804799140
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-5022
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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