Shavu’a Tov [prayers and songs for the end of Sabbath].

(ALGERIA).

E. Cerasinti

Oran

1884

North African rite. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

Friedberg, Shin 259.

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.