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This report gives an overview of December 1941, on the activities of elected Muslim officials, reformist ulama, religious brotherhoods, indigenous Israelites, economic questions, propaganda …

The anti-Jewish repressions carried out by the German occupation authorities in France and published by the local press on December 15, were welcomed by most Muslims, others point out that it is not only the Jews suffer from this situation but all of France. 

The December 3, the press published new laws concerning the status of Jews in France: new prohibited professions, the right of Jews to own property, creation of a “Union of Jews of France”. The reprisals organized by the German authorities in France in Jewish circles dismay their Algerian co-religionists. In Constantine, the arrest of nine large traders involved in the Sayer Brothers affair and who is due to appear before the Lyon court-martial is also worrying Jewish circles. The Chief Rabbi of Constantine, Mr. Jais, orders public prayers in synagogues.

In Algiers, leaflets circulate clandestinely, in Jewish circles, reproducing a letter addressed to Marshal Pétain by the President of the Consistory, another from Rabbi Kaplan de Cusset to Xavier Vallat, Commissioner for Jewish Questions, and an anonymous and undated protest against the repeal of the Crémieux Decree. The Consistory is actively pursuing the subscription in favor of Secours National: a sum of 380,000 francs has already been collected to date.