Index of Voter List in Constantine (Algeria) and its District in 1880

1,778 Records

Name List · Constantine, Algeria · 1880 · The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection

Background

The Jews of Algeria got the French nationality including full civil rights with the promulgation of the Crémieux Decree in 1870.

In view of elections to the French Government to be held on February 15, 1880, the Jewish communities of Constantine and sixteen other localities of the District prepared lists of voters, all written in a single register found at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem, as a part of the Constantine Jewish community records. The localities for which voter lists exist, are:

  • Ain Beida
  • Ainsanna
  • Batna
  • Biskra
  • Bone (now called Annaba)
  • Bordj-Bou-Arrerig
  • Bougie (now Bejaia)
  • Guelma
  • La Calle (now El Kala)
  • Oued Zenati
  • Philippevile (now Skikda)
  • Saint Arnaud (now El Eulma)
  • Setif
  • Souk Ahras
  • Tebessa.

The 1780 voters are all men, except four widows. The alphabetical index is based on these lists and includes: the voters surname and given name, sometimes their father’s name, their age and occupation. According to the French law voters being at least 21 years old, one can assume that they all where family heads. This index is part of The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection.

Source: A single voter register held at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem, as a part of the Constantine Jewish community records.
Fields Recorded

The alphabetical index includes:

Surname — The voter’s surname
Given Name — The voter’s given name
Father’s Name — Sometimes given
Age
Occupation
Research Notes
Remarks about the Name Spellings
  • The official language in Algeria being then French, OU is used instead of U and CH for SH.
  • Sometimes in the middle of the name, there is a double letter and sometimes not, like ALOUCHE and ALLOUCHE.
  • Some surnames beginning with H are found with or without H like: HALIMI and ALIMI.
  • Names beginning with the guttural sound KH that doesn’t exist in French, are found with a KH or with only a K like KHAROUBY or KAROUBY.
  • A surname can be found as such but also with a prefix like A, Ben, Bou, El, Cohen, Le, Levy like ABOULKER or BOULKER, ADDA or COHEN ADDA etc.
Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z”l who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential. Mathilde compiled this index from the voter register held at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) in Jerusalem.

In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.

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Last updated June 2021.
This database is part of The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection at JewishGen.