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221:. It was the first such congress held in Africa, and the first in a Muslim-majority country. Ahmed Bey reluctantly agreed to serve as Honorary President of the Congress, which was partly paid for with 2 million francs worth of funds from the Tunisian government, raised in taxes on Tunisia's Muslim population. The event, with some participants dressed as Crusaders and others using it as a platform for speeches hostile to Islam, caused a furore in the 262:
The Bey made very limited efforts to resist these demands, but eventually signed a decree on 3 October 1940, which excluded Jews from the civil service and from professional roles connected to press, radio, theatre and cinema, while also allowing the publication of a 'Journal israélite de Tunisie'
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Ahmed Bey signed another decree on 5 June 1941 dissolving Jewish youth groups, and a further one on 29 September 1941 dissolving the Jewish Community Council in Tunis and replacing it with an appointed body. His decree of 26 June 1941 ordered a census of the Jews.
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on the liberal professions, although it was never put into effect in some fields, including medicine, where instead Jews were forbidden from treating anyone other than other Jews.
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Party claimed that the Bey's involvement demonstrated his subservience to the French and abandonment of the defence of his people's interests.
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Paul Sebag, Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie : des origines à nos jours, éd. L’Harmattan, Paris, 1991 pp. 222–227
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Abdelaziz Barrouhi, 'Moncef Bey, les juifs, l’Axe et les Alliés', Jeune Afrique, 13 August 2006 accessed 2/5/2017
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Paul Sebag, Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie : des origines à nos jours, éd. L’Harmattan, Paris, 1991 p.230
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Paul Sebag, Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie : des origines à nos jours, éd. L’Harmattan, Paris, 1991 p.225
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In the period of Ahmad's reign, the nationalist movement grew in political importance. The
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Kenneth Perkins, A History of Modern Tunisia, Cambridge University Press, 2014 p.96
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Kenneth Perkins, A History of Modern Tunisia Cambridge University Press 2004 p.79
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video clip of Ahmad Bey welcoming the French President on his visit to Tunisia
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in France led to the appointment of a new Resident General, Admiral
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David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires OUP 2014 p.90
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from 11 February 1929 until his death. He was the son of
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Ahmad II had ten sons and eight daughters, including
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Bey of Tunis
Muhammad VI al-Habib
Muhammad VII al-Munsif
La Marsa
Beylik of Tunis
French protectorate of Tunisia
Dynasty
Husainides
Islam
Arabic
Arabic
ruler of Tunisia
Ali Muddat ibn al-Husayn
Dar al-Taj Palace
La Marsa
Bey al-Mahalla
Bey
Muhammad VI al-Habib
International Eucharistic Congress
Carthage
French conquest of Algeria
Tunisian national movement
Destour
History of the Jews in Tunisia
Vichy regime
Jean-Pierre Esteva
Vichy anti-Jewish legislation
numerus clausus
burials issue

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