Tunis Jewish Community
15 rue du Cap Vert
Tel: 282-469 & 287-153. [October 2000]
Chief Rabbi: Rabbi Haim Madar
26 rue de Palestine
Tel: 282-406 & 283-540. [October 2000]

http://www.amyisrael.co.il/africa/tunisia/index.htm

is the website of the Jewish Community of Tunisia, most of the population of 2,000 residing in Tunis but some in the small communities of Djerba, Sfax, Sousse and Nabeul.

http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/040/9.html

"THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF TUNISIA" by Alexander Rosenzweig

http://www.haruth.com/JewsTunisia.html [October 2000]

http://www.harissa.com/accueileng.htm:

Homepage of the Tunisian Jews in English [October 2000]

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shaked/Tunisia/Jews.html
          Case study: The Tunisian Jewish minority in the face of oppression - The end of one of the oldest Jewish Minority in Tunisia, 1881-1967 by Edith Haddad Shaked [May 2006]
 

http://www.ifrance.com/cohenhadria/histoire/originetunis.htm:

in French [October 2000]

http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/communities/wjcbook/tunisia/index.htm - link no longer available

"The largest communities are in Tunis and on the island of Djerba (Hara Keriba and Hara Sghira). There are also approximately 200 Jews living in the Sousse-Monastir region on the Gulf of Mammamet". [October 2000]

Headstones with Stars of David on gravesites are maintained abroad by The American Battle Monuments Commission. Source: Commission sheet entitled "Headstones Emplaced at Grave Sites (World Wars I and II"; dated 9 May 1994): W.W.II-North Africa (nr. Carthage, Tunisia). 56 headstones. Source: Jonathan L. Eisenberg, Minnetonka, Minnesota; eisjon@email.briggs.com or c/o SEisenbrg@aol.com [1998]

HARA KEBIRA:
      " There are as many as 11 synagogues here, and close to 1,000 Jews…"  I-CIAS Website


HARA SGHIRA:


TUNIS:

• AB Military Cemetery: Some Jewish personnel are buried there. Contact Dr. Robert Warren, CFE at email: reconditenotes@aol.com for information. [January 2002]
• There was a large cemetery in the middle of town that was moved after independence. The old cemetery is now a park in the middle of town and the tombstones and graves have been moved to an area not far from downtown. Many of them appear to have been carelessly thrown together. One headstone simply states “here lie the remains of tzadikim (from the old cemetery) whose names could not be remembered.” This is a paraphrase, but I have a photo to confirm. Several great rabbis are buried there in addition to a monument honoring fallen Jewish soldiers from World War I. Source: Haim Malka, Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, hmalka@csis.org. [June 2005]

Revised Wednesday February 18 2009