WHO ARE THE TUNISIAN JEWS?
Tunisian Jews have always represented a unique culture, due to the the geographical situation of Tunisia as well as by the historical problems encountered by this community. Confronted by rather harsh living conditions, Tunisian Jews have developed along the centuries they spent in Tunisia, a unique and quite interesting personality mainly based on tolerance. Tolerance to ideas and differences, probably due to the situation of Mediterranean crossroads enjoyed by Tunisia and to the multiple influences and invasions endured by Tunisia during the centuries of sojourn of the Jews in Tunisia. If we realize that the Tunisian Jews have lived under the influence of the Spaniards, the Arab conquerors, then under the Turks and the French colonizers, notwithstanding all the different invasions of the Romans, Vandals or Byzantine, then we understand much better their internationalist component. Never exceeding 100.000, among a total population of 5 million people, the Jewish presence in Tunisia ha
