Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing

Did Jewish scholars develop new strategies of applicability and governance to adapt to and survive in French-colonial Algeria? How did indigenous rabbis respond to changes in their socio-political environment? Did it affect the way in which they understood and addressed their juridical roles and, if so, to what extent?

This study explores these questions and furthers the growing discourse about indigenous Jews in colonial Algeria. Vered Sakal adopts a Halachic perspective to examine the tran...