For nearly two millennia, Jewish communities have dotted the North African coastline that constitutes present-day Tunisia. Medieval manuscripts refer to Jewish quarters and markets established in Tunis/Carthage, but also in the urban centers of Jerba, Sousse, Mahdia, Monastir, Gabes, Bizerte, and Sfax. Periodic European persecutions spurred Jews from the Iberian or Italian peninsulas to take up residence in North Africa’s port cities throughout the early modern era, and these European migrations…