The Jews of the Mzab and the Algerian Sahara

In Ghardaïa, in the Saharan M'zab valley, lived a small, isolated Jewish community that remained outside the emancipation of Algerian Jews (the Crémieux Decree applied there only in 1961). Silversmiths and traders, they preserved Berber customs and a traditional way of life. They left Algeria in 1962, mainly for France.