Effacement et résurgence d’une mémoire juive d’Algérie

Abstract

This article returns to the gradual formation of the history of the Jews in France as a the field of knowledge, backed by authentic documents, throughout the nineteenth century. Inspired by the methods developed by historians of the “archival turn”, this contribution aims to capture the way documents kept in the major French archives and libraries were progressively identified and interpreted as “sources for the history of the Jews in France”. In so doing, these scholars sought to build a history, no longer “separate” but “integrated”, of the Jews, particularly in medieval France.