Fully in French, published in 1985 by Hachette. Titled, Histoire des Juifs en Afrique du Nord, which translates to History of Jews in North Africa, authored by Andre Chouraqui. First Edition, in GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION. Dust jacket with small chips and a few tears along the top edge, fully intact and now handsomely portrayed in a mylar jacket. Clean dark blue cloth boards with a small gauge where front board meets spine near the top (seen in listing photo). No interior marks, 620 clean and solidly bound pages, two sections of glossy plates.
This is a single complete volume. There was a 2-Volume set published in 1998 by Editions de Roucher, available in softback, with the same title and author, with the individual volumes titled, Tome 1: En exil au Maghreb (In Exile in the Maghreb; 293 pp) and Tome 2 : Retour en Orient (Return to the East; 340 pp). Given the page numbers add to 633, and the book here is 620 pages, it may be that this is simply a split published a Second Edition - its unclear to me.
I found this somewhat rambling online description of this book online, which seems like it was written by the author, seemingly as a preamble to the 2-Volume set published in 1998, translated from the French:
"The history of the Jews in North Africa never ceased to fuel my curiosity from my early childhood. Everything challenged me in the universe where I was born. He presented himself to me under three violently contrasting shutters, the Muslim and the Christian, with between them the Jewish world to which I belonged. To convince me, my mother flooded me with her prayers. The house was forever inhabited by the Hebrew Bible, read, proclaimed in its original language, Hebrew. Israel was so present in our lives that it was impossible to escape its presence. Everywhere, we religiously remembered the glorious past of our ancestors. Exiled from our land, Judea, in our exiles we had only one mission, that of preserving the memory of our past of which we cultivate the memories, and that one goal, to see our people revive one day on their land. Thus, my long road dotted with books led to this final edition, in two volumes, of the History of the Jews in North Africa. A story born from a single questioning and the same anxiety: where do we come from and where are we going? On the threshold of the atomic era, most Jews have returned to the land of Israel from which they left two millennia ago. In North Africa, nothing remains of them except their cemeteries. These pages tell their singular history which, part of the Maghreb, is reborn in its sources, under the sky of Jerusalem."
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