Not only our memories but the things we have forgotten are 'housed'. Our soul is an abode. And by remembering 'houses' and 'rooms', we learn to 'abide' within ourselves.     Gaston Bachelard, The Poetic Space

Quoted in THE ARCHITECTURE of MEMORY: A Jewish-Muslim household in colonial Algeria, 1937-1962 By Joëlle Bahloul, La maison de  memorie (1992), translated Cambridge University Press, 1996


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The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962

Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multi-voice microhistory of a way of life that came to an end in the early l960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbors constantly refer back to the architecture of the home itself, which, with its internal boundaries and shared spaces, structures their memories. Here, in miniature, is a domestic history of North African Muslims, Jews and Christians living under French colonial rule.

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