Salim Halali

Salim Halali

Singer · 1920–2005

Sephardi · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Algerian Jewish singer who survived the Nazi occupation of Paris with help from the Grand Mosque, then became a star of North African music and a nightclub owner in Casablanca.

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