The Great Synagogue of Oran, left.
At the time of the French entrance to Oran in 1831 the great majority of the city population was Jewish. According to a census conducted by the French there were about 2,800 Jews in Oran, well ahead of the local Christians and Muslims who together amounted to about 1,000 inhabitants...By the mid 19th century there were about 5,000 Jews in Oran...The years that followed WW2 saw the breakout of the Algerian struggle for independence....The city's Jewish community of almost thirty thousand people continued its regular life, but in February 1956 rioters attacked Jewish property...
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I was very pleased to find your post on the Great Synagogue of Oran - not too many bloggers have mentioned it at all. I wanted to read the rest of the article, but it gave me an error reading :(
Anyhow I have created a link to your blog, many thanks
Hels
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