Shavu’a Tov [prayers and songs for the end of Sabbath].
AUCTION 54 |
Wednesday, March 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 11
(ALGERIA).
Shavu’a Tov [prayers and songs for the end of Sabbath].
Oran: E. Cerasinti 1884
Est: $600 - $800
Oran is located along the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria. Jews began settling the area in 1391, the population swelling in 1492 and 1502, when Oran afforded refuge to Jewish expellees from Spain in the wake of the fall of Granada. Centuries later, following the Algerian uprising against French colonial rule in the 1950’s this community that at its height reached numbers of nearly 150,000, severly dwindled. Today, there are no Jews resident in Oran at all.