ROVING REPORT 9923/A: ALGERIA: JEWISH LEGACY

(4 Jun 1999) SHOWS:
RECENT, VARIOUS, ALGERIA AND FRANCE:
ALGIERS, ALGERIA: panoramic view of Algiers; street scenes; Jewish graves and monument to victims of first world war at St Eugene Cemetery; painting by Alfred Dehodencq: 'La Noce Juive' (Jewish Nuptials); visitors look at paintings in Museum of Arts gallery; painting: 'Les Femmes d'Alger' (The Women of Algiers) by Auguste Renoir, after Eugene Delacroix; Dehodencq's 'La Fete Juive' (Jewish Fiesta); Algerian musician and master of Andalusian music, Sid Ahmed Serri plays the mandolin and sings at home; pictures and certificates on the wall, Sid Ahmed Serri sot, in French with English translation; Old Jewish area in Algiers' Kasbah: market in Chartres Street, a former Jewish market; mosque 'Jamaa El Yahoud' ( meaning: 'Mosque of the Jews'), a former synagogue; street name on plaque; busy market, prayer room inside mosque, star-shaped pattern adorning ceiling; monochrome picture of the same area in the early 1900s; Imam Zein El Din sot, in Arabic with English translation, as he points to picture; SOUTHERN ALGERIA (Adrar region, Sahara): village of Tamentit, defensive walls surrounding village, woman along narrow street, jeweller beating sheet of silver; silver bangles in basket, entrance to local Centre of Traditional Arts , inscription above entrance, ancient stone exhibit, with Hebrew inscriptions; PARIS, FRANCE: monochrome picture of the late Jacob Makhlouf Ben Lalou, a former mayor of the Algerian town of Laghouat, about 400 kilometres south of Algiers; Jean-Paul Lalou, Jacob's grand-son, looking at book in his Paris home; seal bearing name of Jacob Makhlouf Ben Lalou on book page, Jean Paul Lalou sot, in French with English translation; Jewish area of Paris in 'Marais' district: Jewish delicatessen with inscription above door in French and Hebrew, and plaque commemorating victims of a bomb attack in 1982; bookshop; posters of Jewish Algerian musicians on walls; synagogue of Rue des Tournelles, frequented by Algerian Jews; Jewish man arrives, other man runs and enters through side entrance; Benjamin Offman's bar-mitzvah ceremony in progress; Joseph Attali, a Jew from Algeria present at the ceremony, sot in French with English translation; Benjamin Offman and his grandfather David Alimi, Benjamin sot, in French with English translation; North African area in Belleville district: people in street, street plaque, Jewish and Arab shops; Charles Bunan, Head of an Algerian Jewish community in Paris, at home, looking at photographs; monochrome pictures of himself and friends as young people in Algeria; photograph of Great synagogue of Algerian city of Oran, Charles Bunan sot, in French with English translation; old colonial map of Algeria; Bunan sot, in French with English translation; ALGERIA: panoramic view of Algiers, mosque, men in a group, talking, Jewish businessman Elie Cohen sot, in French with English translation; panoramic view of Algiers harbour and town. (APTN)
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[@yohanayahoda868]

Before 1832 Algeria was with very high good education rich well organised very strong in that time Algeria used to fed French when they were hungry and eating 🐀) they refused to pay Debits ( we know the history

[@ricardo-2019-v5]

And we still great 🤟❤️

[@curtisthomas2670]

Jews lived in Algeria for a couple thousand years alongside the Moors/Arabs and others.Many other Jews fled to Algeria along with Moors/Arabs when Spain was recaptured by the Catholis (la Reconquista) and jews and Muslims were killed, forced to convert to catholicism or leave. When France colonised Algeria and Algeria became part of France (departments of France) jews were granted French citizenship but Muslims had to renounce Islam in order to do so (only some did). Thus, Muslim Algerians became non citizens in their own land, as the French set up a type of apartheid system, where the Christian and jewish French citizens lorded over the majority Muslim and other non French population, who were reduced to mainly lowly paid labor and poverty, deprived of much of their property and former freedoms and rights. When Algeria achieved independence from France most of the jews (now considered French citizens) left to France and other places and the Algerian government was also not willing to grant citizenship to French citizens (including jews) still living in Algeria. The Muslims generally considered the jews' participation in the colonisation of Algeria as an act of betrayal and harbored great resentment towards them as a result.
Disclaimer: I am not agreeing with that position, just stating the facts.

[@pablo12113]

Indeed. the Jew were expelled from Spain1300. They fled to North Africa mostly Oran. after they colonized Oran they expelled the Jew again. The King Hassan 2 did the same thing 1954 expelled the Jew from Morocco. Algeria expelled the Jew, rather they fled because they were afraid of the FLN but reality the OAS that spread the fear in the Jewish communities to flee the country. there are a lot Jew still living in Algeria with harmony and respect as long as they do not interfere with the religion difference.

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

well the algerians ignore the fact that the first time jews got equal rights in north africa,by law,not by whim of ruler,was when france took over north africa. why would they risk similar faith like the jews of baghdad suffered in 1936,or the pogroms jews suffered in syria and egypt just few years before?

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

@Mohamed the guy 1)you speak about the jewish musicians? you murdered sheikh raymond...
2)i am sure there was no islamic rulers in algeria....soon you will say the berber coast didnt have hulan trafficking of non muslins as part of the beber piracy....soon you will the mouahidon held equal rights to every member of their kingdom...
3)the jews live in france much better tha algerians ever live in algeria...no islam aleck... over 100 thousand algerians died in war against algerian islamists in the 1990s...

[@user-ui3yp4lc5j]

Are you kidding? Before the French occupation, a Muslim could not buy two chickens without the presence of a Jew. The Jews were the ones who controlled Algeria. ​@@user-we4ih1tp7n

[@RamiAzzedine]

I AM A JEWISH ALGERIAN

[@zo62]

Rami Azzedine are you expecting a prize

[@appleusable]

Are you proud? Your Ancestors were Psychopathic killers.

[@zo62]

appleusable how are they psycho killers?

[@appleusable]

Research your history. Know thyself. Why do you think the Algerian Jews were allowed to move, live, and receive French citizenship.

[@appleusable]

Algerian Jew, Colonization has deprived all of these countries of thriving in the future. Google it if you don't want to research it. 13 African countries signed a treaty with France which included a Tax and reparations paid to France in order to receive their Independence. Especially Algeria. You must be brainwashed. I understand. I used to think like yourself

[@K24-]

For those who have a genuine and unbiased interest to learn about Algeria, below are some facts to reconcile the different and sometimes conflicting narratives of the main media and/or the opinion makers.
First, the Algerian, regardless of their religion or spoken tongue are berbers. This fact is recently lifted from any speculation by the genetic results on Algerians. The DNA results show that all Algerians, regardless of their claimed ethnicity; being Arab or Berber, carry more than 75% of pre-Neolithic genes ( typically 70-80% of Berber markers (E) and 5-10% of Iberic marker). As a matter of fact the Middle Eastern market counts for less than 3-5% at most, which compared to the10-15% of European markers, makes the Algerian labelling as Arab is very strange to say the least.
Second,similarly with Arab speaking Algerian, the Algerian Jews are berbers. If you exclude their religion, Algerian Jews share the same ethnicity, the same culture( music, food, clothes, celebration dates et events, if I exclude those related to religion). As a matter of fact I completely sympathise with the person (4:50) sense of belonging when he speaks about the « Arab ». The reason is that the people he labels Arab are berbers like him; carrying, since millennia, the same ways of eating, singing and clothings. The dissonance stems from the mislabelling. Oddly, we call North African Arabs but they don’t have any link with Arabs, excluding religion.
Consequently, it would be good that objective and neutral media start to inform people by this flaw in describing North Africa, starting from this misleading title of « legacy of Jews » as if they are an exogenous entity to Algeria whilst in fact they are the same people practicing a different religion, but singing the same music, eating the same food and dressing the same clothes as any Algerian of the same region. No legacy, no exogenous input.

[@rayyoubi]

But the Jews of Algeria betrayed her, and they were originally not from us, but from the French who came after 1832.

[@K24-]

@@rayyoubi Nop, you are misinformed. Most of North African and Andalusian are of berber stock. They are as Algerian as most of the population. The non-berber Jews were a minority in the same way as the Arabs (ethnically speaking), and there is no Jews in the french invaders. Regarding the betrayal, it is true that the people behind the debt scam were Jews, but this doesn’t mean all Jews. FYI, there were Jews among the November 54 fighters.

[@rayyoubi]

@@K24- We do not hate ordinary Jews, we hate Zionists, French Jews and even Americans, and let you know that it was the innocent Algerians who paid the price. Judeo-Christian France killed at least twenty million Algerians and Algerians in the period of one century, and Algeria expelled the Jews from it because most of them cooperated With the French against the Mujahideen and the Algerian martyrs, there is no place for Christ and the Jews in Algeria, Algeria is an Arab Muslim country forever

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

it was shown that most north african jewish people ancestry is levantine,north semitic people(see wikipedia article of "berber jews").north africa had large jewish-hebrew popualtion since roman times(like they had other larage northern semitic population of levantines-phoenicians of carthage). but sure things could gave been just fine without the extremism of the fln and some pan arab govs who even tried to repress berber snd blsck arab identities in algeria,not just the jews

[@user-we4ih1tp7n]

@@rayyoubi jews lived in north acrica for centuries since roman times,many more came during ottoman times.
and if the algerians have give jews eqaul rights before the french occupation,the jews wouldnt support the french that much ...

[@SonzOfEnoch]

My Family are Berbers from Tizi Ouzou but but Born in Kasbah Alger Before Arab Islamisation my father's Tribe were Jews before Islam Arab Conversion' our Tribe is Yacef which is from the Hebrew Yosef' some Berber were Jews and Christians before Islam.

[@jamillamosta0ha833]

Hhhhhhhh liar

[@ricardo-2019-v5]

What a joke

[@BrinTo9999]

our music was taken from Algeria to Spain not the oposite

[@tinaghecil2507]

Why ethnic Arabs lol what about the Berbers .

[@La_illah_ila_allah2]

Majority arabs
And berbers speak arabic

[@tinaghecil2507]

@@La_illah_ila_allah2 Alors la .....

[@La_illah_ila_allah2]

@@tinaghecil2507 مش رح تعود فرنسي
حبس ما تتلزق فيهم

[@tinaghecil2507]

@@La_illah_ila_allah2 😐😐😐 تتلزق هههه والله مشي اللغه العربية هذي أتعلم كيف تتكلم لغتك قبل من بعد النقد ساهل في وقتنا الحاضر هههه

[@La_illah_ila_allah2]

@@tinaghecil2507 تتلزق تتصلق. زي بعضاهم
كاين عرب يقولو صغير زغير
انا أشير للقمر و الاحمق ينظر لاصبعي

[@azedinebensalem7701]

Looking at the cars,it was end 80s.

[@__Man__]

No, 1999. Read the description

[@artemis2545]

Ché amie il vous ont oubliées votre existance et l'existance des autres aussi mes salutations

[@SHAUL-YIRAH-MAAMIN.]

GOOD REPORT!

[@regularguy2807]

Lol others you mean most.