“Jewish Algeria today is English Algeria tomorrow”

Abstract The history of the Dreyfus Affair, and the anti-Semitic movement that gripped France and Algeria, is well-documented. Though scholars have demonstrated that anti- Protestantism and Protestants were central to the Affair's metropolitan context, few have examined anti-Protestantism in the empire. This article explores the untold story of two British Protestant clerics, Arthur Liley and Frederick Yandell, who were accused of undermining French Algeria, amid charges of espionage and sedition in the press and in the Chamber of Deputies. By restoring the Liley and Yandell scandals to a shared context with both the Dreyfus Affair and the history of fin-de-siècle Algeria, we see that outrage about these two figures underscored anxieties about French colonial rule, as well as frustrations with French liberalism.

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Journal
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Published
2025-02-18
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https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2025.510106
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Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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“Jewish Algeria today is English Algeria tomorrow”

Rachel Eva Schley
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Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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“Jewish Algeria today is English Algeria tomorrow”

Rachel Eva Schley
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Abstract

Abstract The history of the Dreyfus Affair, and the anti-Semitic movement that gripped France and Algeria, is well-documented. Though scholars have demonstrated that anti- Protestantism and Protestants were central to the Affair's metropolitan context, few have examined anti-Protestantism in the empire. This article explores the untold story of two British Protestant clerics, Arthur Liley and Frederick Yandell, who were accused of undermining French Algeria, amid charges of espionage and sedition in the press and in the Chamber of Deputies. By restoring the Liley and Yandell scandals to a shared context with both the Dreyfus Affair and the history of fin-de-siècle Algeria, we see that outrage about these two figures underscored anxieties about French colonial rule, as well as frustrations with French liberalism.

Historical Reflections/Réflexions HistoriquesVol. 51(1)
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Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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