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November 20th, 2020. Shabbat is almost here\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

And we’ll learn about an artist\u00a0in whose biography myth blends with facts. Born in Algeria in 1920, settled in Paris\u00a0during the occupation of the\u00a0nazis, he would later be called the “King of Shaabi”: he is Salim (Simon) Halali.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Hello! How are you? I hope well. In this occasion I want to say thanks to Patricia \u00c1lvarez<\/a>. She is a friend of mine from Madrid, a wonderful dancer and a culture enthusiast, especially from the Mediterranean basin, the Balkans and the Middle East. She introduced me to the work of Salim Halali.\u00a0So,\u00a0thank you, Patricia!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this bio of Salim (super large, and I still would have been able to follow many more threads) there are\u00a0facts and tales<\/strong>, that you can believe or not. I will explain the sources and you can judge by yourself but… do you know? The stories are worth of it. I hope you’ll like them.<\/p>\n

? And remember, there are previous editions of MBS about\u00a0Algerian Jews<\/strong>:\u00a0Reinette L’Oranaise<\/a>,\u00a0Saoud L’Oranaise<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cheik Zouzou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Please, if you like this, share it with your friends.<\/span>\u00a0Thank you in advance.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Algerian Jewish boy who\u00a0wanted to be a flamenco singer<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Shlomo or Simon Halali was born in B\u00f4ne, currently Annaba, in 1920, from a family from Souk-Ahras. His father was a Turkish and his mother was a Berber-Jew. He left the country very soon, at his just 14 years old, searching for a career in music (even when he didn’t have any education in music). He wanted to be a flamenco singer.<\/p>\n

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So in 1934 he got to\u00a0travel\u00a0to Marseille, as a stowaway on a ship.\u00a0Some time after,\u00a0he went to Paris, where the International Expo would take\u00a0place in 1937, with the hope to get a job at the Algerian pavilion. There, he found some compatriots, like\u00a0Mahieddine Bachtarzi<\/strong>, who was the director of the first Andalusian music association of the Maghreb: El Moutribia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

?\u00a0Listen to Mr. Bachtarzi,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Simon would later be renamed as Salim and he would reach high recognition.<\/p>\n

Continue below, under this picture of the H\u00f4tel de Ville of B\u00f4ne:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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About\u00a0Souk-Akhras<\/strong>, in ancient time it was\u00a0Thagaste, a very important Roman city, the birthland of\u00a0S<\/a>aint Augustine<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World<\/em>\u00a0edited by Norman A. Stillman,\u00a0the modern town began in the 1850s as a French military post, and by 1856 it had a permanent Jewish settlement. Some of the Jewish inhabitants were Ba\u1e25u\u1e63im, semi-nomadic Jews from the surrounding region who adopted a sedentary lifestyle in the new town. Others were Jews of Livornese descent (from the city of Livorno, in the North coast of Italy to the Tyrrhenian sea).<\/p>\n

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And this is the H\u00f4tel de Ville of Souk-Akhras <\/strong><\/span>(picture kindly released for public domain by the author,\u00a0Abdallahdjabi<\/a>):<\/strong>
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But let’s stop and hear a story. Believe it or not. You decide.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Sources for Salim<\/strong>‘s bio:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n