The containment of the newly classified indigene: Susan Slyomovics, ‘”Other Places of Confinement”: Bedeau Internment Camp for Algerian Jewish Soldiers’, in Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds), The Holocaust and North Africa, Stanford University Press, 2019, pp. 95-112 | settler colonial studies blog

The containment of the newly classified indigene: Susan Slyomovics, ‘”Other Places of Confinement”: Bedeau Internment Camp for Algerian Jewish Soldiers’, in Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds), The Holocaust and North Africa, Stanford University Press, 2019, pp. 95-112

30Nov18

Abstract: A case study of Bedeau Camp for the internment of Algerian Jewish soldiers: During World War II, the violence of French military culture in Algeria was intensified by Vichy-era fascism expanded to the overseas North African settler colony against those racially classed by the colonial bureaucracy as indigènes, or “natives,” a term perennially applied to the Muslim and temporarily, between 1940 and 1943, to the Jew.

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