Messaoud El Medioni, known as "Saoud l'Oranais" ( Oran, 25 November 1886 –

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As an ...

after 23 March 1943) was a reputed Jewish-Algerian band leader and proprietor of the original Café Oran. He was the uncle of French-Algerian pianist Maurice El Mediouni. Around 1938, the mother of a 13-year-old blind girl from

Tiaret Tiaret ( ar, تاهرت / تيارت; Berber: Tahert or Tihert, i.e. "Lioness") is a major city in northwestern Algeria that gives its name to the wider farming region of Tiaret Province. Both the town and region lie south-west of the capital o ...

, Sultana Daoud, sent her to study with "Saoud l'Oranais" - this girl was later to become famous as

Reinette L'Oranaise Sultana Daoud (also known as Reinette l'Oranaise; 1918 in Tiaret, French Algeria – 17 November 1998, in Paris) was an Algerian Jewish singer, who helped preserve Arab-Andalus music, as well as introducing the genre to European audiences. Early l ...

, the most prominent of all Jewish Algerian singers. Medioni was arrested by the Germans in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

in January 1943 and sent to Sobibor extermination camp, where he was murdered in the gas chambers on 23 March 1943.Hatikvah Music (selections #4 and #5)
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