From North Africa to Europe: The Jewish Integration after Decolonizations

Abstract

The objective of this article is to offer a development of the historical circumstances that made possible the emigration of the Jewish communities of the Maghreb towards Europe, as well as the characteristic features of their insertion in it. We
will start from the processes of colonization and decolonization in the mid-twentieth century in three key countries of North Africa - Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria - because, although their historical developments were particular, as far as the Jewish group shared a common phenomenology. In this way, it is possible to shape the emigration of communities to countries such as France, England or Germany and the way in which they are integrated and assimilated into a new non-Arab-speaking economic, social and cultural environment, previously favored by participation and education offered by the Universal Israelite Alliance, to which they transfer their own legacy and cultural code.