Creator Bio
Henri Chemouilli
1891–1981
Henri Chemouilli was an outspoken Jewish leader during the War of Algerian Independence, arguing that French Jews had colonized the Algerian Jewish community just as France had colonized the wider region. Nevertheless, believing that French rule protected the Algerian Jews, Chemouilli supported the Organisation armée secrète, a violently anti-independence group. In the years following the war, Chemouilli wrote extensively about Algerian Jewish life and history, making claims of Jewish indigeneity in the region.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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L’Arche, Dictionary of French Judaism, “North African”
One must hurry to grasp it; yesterday, it did not exist; tomorrow it will be no more. Yesterday there were Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, discovered by…
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The Repatriated Ten Years Later
We had more or less forgotten them. We wanted to convince ourselves, without really trying to find out, that the march of time had left them satisfied, happy, at peace. The quarrels provoked by…