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Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of Constantine on August 3-5, 1934.  The Constantine riots were an important event in Algerian, French, and Jewish history but their origins have been the subject…