The Jews live altogether in the city of Algiers, and the towns along the coast; they are the most debased wretches I have ever seen, and have not a characteristic worthy of man; they purchase their right of existence by an oppressive apitation tax—but whenever there arises a tumult, the soldiers, if they can find no other object to exercise their rage on, murder and rob the Jews.They are a most strange people—they delight in living where there is most misery and danger, and they manage to preserve, wherever they go, their religious rights....Two years since 600 of them were murdered, and yet strange as it may appear, the brothers, sisters, &c. remain, to perhaps in three or four more years, undergo the same fate.
The piece was also antisemitic, referring to Jews' "disposition to usury, trade and extortion."
But once again, the idea that Jews in Muslim lands lived in much better conditions than the Jews of Europe is shown not to be true at all. There were also major murderous pogroms in Algiers in 1805 and 1815, the 1824 event is not as well known.
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