ABSTRACT
Slightly more than 800 Jews live within the perimeter of the eruv of Hara Kebira, and approximately 280 inhabit Hara Sghira. Work and leisure, the dietary and vestimentary rules, the system of private and institutional education, social relations, everything bears the imprint of religious law. In Jewish law, the duty of prayer is incumbent only on men. According to Jewish law, if the first fruit of the womb is a male child, it must be given to God. The situation in the Jewish settlements of southern Tunisia and the battle which had been undertaken to introduce new rules of hygiene and nutrition. Like the other Tunisian communities, the Jews of Jerba shared certain customs with their Muslim neighbors. The Jews wage a constant preventive war against the inara by filling their lives with the protective symbols to which have already alluded. The Jew was always subject to humiliations, to wrath, to false accusations.
