Les Juifs de Sfax

Sfax, a major port in southern Tunisia, was home to a Jewish community of local Sephardic tradition, active in trade, crafts, and commerce centered on olive oil, almonds, and the region's agricultural products. Under the French Protectorate, its members benefited from the education provided by the Alliance israélite universelle and opened themselves to French culture. During the Second World War, the city experienced, like the rest of Tunisia, German occupation and the imposition of forced labor measures on Jews. After independence, the community dispersed primarily to France and Israel in the mid-twentieth century.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan