Lyn Julius
Jews of Algeria
Summary
2022 marks 60 years since the great exodus of Jews from Algeria. Some 130,000 Jews were forced to flee after a bloody war. Over 95% fled to France in 1962 when Algeria achieved independence. Lyn Julius explains why this happened and where these Jews went.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return (www.jewishrefugees.org.uk). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress.
Well, I still don’t think that people know about them. There was a film made a few years ago called Night of Fools, which tried to showcase the story of the Algerian resistance. And I don’t know if that had much effect, but certainly I think more people do know about it.