The Hara of Tunis: The Evolution of a North-African Ghetto

Paul Sebag

1959

Chapter II

The Old Jewish Quarter

The Jews of Tunis have not been confined to the hara for a long time now. Since the end of the last century, those acquiring a degree of ease have abandoned it and established themselves in the new city being built at the gates of the old one. Indeed, the only ones who remained were those bound by poverty to its…
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Paul Sebag

1919–2004

Paul Sebag was a historian and sociologist, born and raised in a middle-class family in Tunis. Trained in law and philosophy in Paris, Sebag returned home to join the antifascist resistance as a member of the Tunisian Communist Party, to which he remained loyal through his imprisonment and liberation. He was later employed at the University of Tunis, where the twin foundations of his academic career were urban sociology and the history of Tunisian Jewry.

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