Three-quarters of Algerian Jews were Arabized natives who considered themselves Algerians

Evidence

Alongside the two large categories of Jewish tradespeople and civil servants, there is the great majority, a floating, highly Arabized mass having only a poor knowledge of French, considering itself by tradition and sometimes by dress as authentic “natives.” This mass represents three-fourths of the Algerian Jewish population. They are in the Algerian territory the homologues of the Tunisian Jews of the Moroccan Djerba or the mellah. For these Jews, there is no problem: they are Algerians. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 502

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the common conflation of all Algerian Jews with the pied-noir settler class; connects to studies of North African Jewish identities. — connects to: Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs; Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds; Settlers feared that without wine and radio they would become Arabized — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 262 (+4 more)

Related

• Algerian Jews were caught between European and Muslim worlds (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian Jews were indigenous North Africans, not European settlers (similarity 0.87)
• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.87)
• Pro-FLN Algerian Jews were expelled alongside the pieds noirs (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle (similarity 0.85)
• The Crémieux Decrees of 1870 conferred French citizenship on Algerian Jews (similarity 0.84)
• Fanon asserted that Jews were not categorically aligned with colonialism (similarity 0.83)
• Racist colonial hierarchy led some Jews to humiliate Algerians to gain standing. (similarity 0.83)
• Most French Algerian settlers were actually Spanish and Italian immigrants. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria expelled its century-old Jewish community despite their F.L.N. sympathies (similarity 0.82)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless (similarity 0.82)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.81)
• The Crémieux Decrees granted Jews citizenship while denying it to Muslims (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Crémieux Decrees of 1870 conferred French citizenship on Algerian Jews #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 171
• Algerian Jews publicly repudiated French nationality to join the independence struggle #contradicts (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 519
• Algeria’s Jewish community was fatally divided and then wholly expelled regardless #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1262
• The F.L.N. pressured Algerian Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions to declare loyalty. #complicates (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1257