Saharan Jews and the fate of French Algeria / Sarah Abrevaya Stein.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.

The lost archive -- Introduction: inventing indigeneity -- Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past -- Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law -- Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair -- Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period -- Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world -- Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure -- Conclusion: colonial shadows -- Epilogue: dark matter.