Writing Transnational Jewish Visual Histories of the Mediterranean after 1800 through Images of Movement and Acceleration

By Anna Sophia Messner The exhibition “Juifs d'Algérie”, which was dedicated to two thousand years of Jewish history in this southern Mediterranean region of North Africa, was presented at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris from September 2012 to January 2013.[1] The exhibition also traced the various paths of the departure and the exodus of the Jews from Algeria after 1948 and especially after 1962, as well as their arrival and settlement in the northern Mediterranean region...