The first occurred in 1870, when the Crémieux decree separated the Jews from the rest of the Algerian population and turned them into French citizens in their own country the second in 1940, when the Vichy government revoked this decree and French citizenship along with it. As you noted in your 2006 book The Three Exiles of Jews from Algeria, two other exiles preceded this one. I was born in 1962, the year the war ended, when my family, yours, and 140,000 other Jews were forced to leave Algeria as the direct consequence of its long colonization.
Like you, I have a personal stake in these matters. We can say that we are of Algerian origins, but colonialism destroyed the shared world in which this identity materialized.
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