Joshua Schreier
Biographic Data
| ID | 266818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Schreier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreier |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship
Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel
From Jerusalem, 1929, to Constantine, 1934: Muslim–Jewish Violence and the Anti-Colonial Critique of Sheikh ͑Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs
Sheikh ͑ Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs (1889–1940), the most esteemed Islamic scholar ( ālim ) of interwar Algeria and leader of Algerian Salafist Islamic reform movement, had things to say about Jews and their relationship to Muslims. Writings published in his journal, al-Shihāb (The Meteor) surrounding several incidents of Muslim–Jewish violence in Algeria and Palestine reveal his dual understanding of Jews. He saw Jews as historically woven into the …
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Conclusion: Moralities and Mythologies
Recentering the History of Jews in North Africa
Recent work that readjusts French Jewish historians' lenses to include France's empire in North Africa is essential, but it does not necessarily expand the range of questions beyond the logic or contradictions of empire. Looking at Jewish history from “outside” the empire, in contrast, may de-emphasize the critical focus on the failures of enlightenment, assimilation, or civilization that have been central both to colonialists' self-definition an…
Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
This book recounts the French conquest of Algeria by exploring the world of Oran’s influential Jewish merchants. Jacob Lasry, along with Mordecai Amar, Judah Sebbah and others, established themselves in this Mediterranean port after the Regency of Algiers dislodged the Spanish in 1792. They were part of a settlement hailing originally from Algerian and Moroccan cities and towns, Saharan Oases, and British Gibraltar. In newly Muslim Oran, they fou…
A Jewish Riot against Muslims: The Polemics of History in Late Colonial Algeria
On Rosh Hashanah, 1961, six months before the conclusion of the Evian accords promised independence for Algeria, riots broke out in the city of Oran. Surprisingly to many, the aggressors were overwhelmingly Jews, while those injured or killed were largely Muslims. The events-widely covered in the media but since forgotten-were a product of Oran's particular social chemistry, but were also shaped by far wider set of debates about a chasm that was …
Abdelmajid Hannoum. Violent Modernity: France in Algeria
From Mediterranean Merchant to French Civilizer: Jacob Lasry and the Economy of Conquest in Early Colonial Algeria
The story of the Oran-based Jewish merchant Jacob Lasry (1793–1869) illustrates how preexisting North African business practices survived and adapted to the radical dislocations of the French conquest of Algeria. In the 1830s, French political turmoil and indecision helped foster a chaotic situation where French generals with nebulous goals “outsourced” financing and even military campaigns to local experts in Algeria. Lasry's business success in…
The creation of the 'Israélite indigène' Jewish merchants in early colonial Oran
Jews in pre-colonial and early colonial Oran were a diverse group that not only constituted a significant portion of the population, but a subsection of them was responsible for a great deal of the city's commerce. Contrary to traditional narratives of the French colonial 'civilising mission', wealthy North African Jews helped underwrite the institutions that were putatively imported to help them. These institutions provided a forum for new and p…
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (review)
Reviewed by: A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 Joshua Schreier A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902. By Benjamin Claude Brower. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). The ambitious aim of Brower's impressive study of the Sahara under French rule is "measuring and explaining the violence of Algeria's colonial past" (5). At the same time, …
Napoleon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870
Research Article| February 01 2007 Napoléon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870 Joshua Schreier Joshua Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 77–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-020 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Schreier; Napoléon's Long Shadow: Moral…
Napoleon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870
Research Article| February 01 2007 Napoléon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870 Joshua Schreier Joshua Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 77–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-020 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Schreier; Napoléon's Long Shadow: Moral…
The creation of the 'Israélite indigène' Jewish merchants in early colonial Oran
Jews in pre-colonial and early colonial Oran were a diverse group that not only constituted a significant portion of the population, but a subsection of them was responsible for a great deal of the city's commerce. Contrary to traditional narratives of the French colonial 'civilising mission', wealthy North African Jews helped underwrite the institutions that were putatively imported to help them. These institutions provided a forum for new and p…
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
This book recounts the French conquest of Algeria by exploring the world of Oran’s influential Jewish merchants. Jacob Lasry, along with Mordecai Amar, Judah Sebbah and others, established themselves in this Mediterranean port after the Regency of Algiers dislodged the Spanish in 1792. They were part of a settlement hailing originally from Algerian and Moroccan cities and towns, Saharan Oases, and British Gibraltar. In newly Muslim Oran, they fou…
A Jewish Riot against Muslims: The Polemics of History in Late Colonial Algeria
On Rosh Hashanah, 1961, six months before the conclusion of the Evian accords promised independence for Algeria, riots broke out in the city of Oran. Surprisingly to many, the aggressors were overwhelmingly Jews, while those injured or killed were largely Muslims. The events-widely covered in the media but since forgotten-were a product of Oran's particular social chemistry, but were also shaped by far wider set of debates about a chasm that was …
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Recentering the History of Jews in North Africa
Recent work that readjusts French Jewish historians' lenses to include France's empire in North Africa is essential, but it does not necessarily expand the range of questions beyond the logic or contradictions of empire. Looking at Jewish history from “outside” the empire, in contrast, may de-emphasize the critical focus on the failures of enlightenment, assimilation, or civilization that have been central both to colonialists' self-definition an…
From Mediterranean Merchant to French Civilizer: Jacob Lasry and the Economy of Conquest in Early Colonial Algeria
The story of the Oran-based Jewish merchant Jacob Lasry (1793–1869) illustrates how preexisting North African business practices survived and adapted to the radical dislocations of the French conquest of Algeria. In the 1830s, French political turmoil and indecision helped foster a chaotic situation where French generals with nebulous goals “outsourced” financing and even military campaigns to local experts in Algeria. Lasry's business success in…
Napoleon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870
Research Article| February 01 2007 Napoléon's Long Shadow: Morality, Civilization, and Jews in France and Algeria, 1808-1870 Joshua Schreier Joshua Schreier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 77–103. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-020 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Joshua Schreier; Napoléon's Long Shadow: Moral…
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (review)
Reviewed by: A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 Joshua Schreier A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902. By Benjamin Claude Brower. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009). The ambitious aim of Brower's impressive study of the Sahara under French rule is "measuring and explaining the violence of Algeria's colonial past" (5). At the same time, …
From Mediterranean Merchant to French Civilizer: Jacob Lasry and the Economy of Conquest in Early Colonial Algeria
The story of the Oran-based Jewish merchant Jacob Lasry (1793–1869) illustrates how preexisting North African business practices survived and adapted to the radical dislocations of the French conquest of Algeria. In the 1830s, French political turmoil and indecision helped foster a chaotic situation where French generals with nebulous goals “outsourced” financing and even military campaigns to local experts in Algeria. Lasry's business success in…
The creation of the 'Israélite indigène' Jewish merchants in early colonial Oran
Jews in pre-colonial and early colonial Oran were a diverse group that not only constituted a significant portion of the population, but a subsection of them was responsible for a great deal of the city's commerce. Contrary to traditional narratives of the French colonial 'civilising mission', wealthy North African Jews helped underwrite the institutions that were putatively imported to help them. These institutions provided a forum for new and p…
Abdelmajid Hannoum. Violent Modernity: France in Algeria
A Jewish Riot against Muslims: The Polemics of History in Late Colonial Algeria
On Rosh Hashanah, 1961, six months before the conclusion of the Evian accords promised independence for Algeria, riots broke out in the city of Oran. Surprisingly to many, the aggressors were overwhelmingly Jews, while those injured or killed were largely Muslims. The events-widely covered in the media but since forgotten-were a product of Oran's particular social chemistry, but were also shaped by far wider set of debates about a chasm that was …
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
This book recounts the French conquest of Algeria by exploring the world of Oran’s influential Jewish merchants. Jacob Lasry, along with Mordecai Amar, Judah Sebbah and others, established themselves in this Mediterranean port after the Regency of Algiers dislodged the Spanish in 1792. They were part of a settlement hailing originally from Algerian and Moroccan cities and towns, Saharan Oases, and British Gibraltar. In newly Muslim Oran, they fou…
Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities
Conclusion: Moralities and Mythologies
Recentering the History of Jews in North Africa
Recent work that readjusts French Jewish historians' lenses to include France's empire in North Africa is essential, but it does not necessarily expand the range of questions beyond the logic or contradictions of empire. Looking at Jewish history from “outside” the empire, in contrast, may de-emphasize the critical focus on the failures of enlightenment, assimilation, or civilization that have been central both to colonialists' self-definition an…
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel
From Jerusalem, 1929, to Constantine, 1934: Muslim–Jewish Violence and the Anti-Colonial Critique of Sheikh ͑Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs
Sheikh ͑ Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs (1889–1940), the most esteemed Islamic scholar ( ālim ) of interwar Algeria and leader of Algerian Salafist Islamic reform movement, had things to say about Jews and their relationship to Muslims. Writings published in his journal, al-Shihāb (The Meteor) surrounding several incidents of Muslim–Jewish violence in Algeria and Palestine reveal his dual understanding of Jews. He saw Jews as historically woven into the …
Colonial Algeria and the Politics of Citizenship
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