Tuesday 20 May, 7 pm UK, 9 pm Israel, 2 pm ET, 8 pm Europe. For seven months during WWII, the 100,000-member Jewish community of Tunisia came under direct Nazi  rule. They had already been subject to anti-Jewish Vichy laws. Now they were exposed to the whims of German SS Officers led by Einsatzgruppen commander Walter Rauff. Did Germany have a policy to annihilate all the Jews of North Africa? Although thwarted by the Allied invasion, what first practical steps were taken to implement the systematic extermination of the Jews of Tunisia?

Shaul Bartal has been gathering evidence based on interviews with survivors, contemporary songs by Tunisian Jews as well as other studies, some based on Tunisian archival sources. He is Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar–Ilan University and at Instituto do Oriente (IO), Universidade de Lisboa. He is the author of The Fedayeen Emerge: The Palestine-Israel Conflict, 1949-1956 (AuthorHouse, 2011); Jihad in Palestine: Political Islam and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2016); New Forms of Palestinian Terror Against Israel: A Profile of Al-Quds Intifada (Edwin Mellen Press, 2017). He is the co-author of Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel (Routledge, 2018) and has written several articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict and Tunisian politics. Recording here.

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