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Visiting Jewish Sites in London

Discover the rich history that links London and its Jewish community, with this Jewish guide to visiting the capital. Get a feel for the history and spirit of the Jewish community with a visit to the Jewish Museum London. There are lots of kosher places to eat in the capital, and most tend to be located in Golders Green and Hendon, although there are a few restaurants and food places situated in Central London.

Places to Visit with Jewish Connections

The Jewish Museum London:

The Jewish Museum London is located in Camden , and explores the rich history and life of the UK’s Jewish community. It has exhibitions that talks about Jews in Britain over the centuries, and the way the community has contributed to society. Past temporary exhibits have included a family portrait of Amy Winehouse and Yiddish Theatre in London.

Website:  jewishmuseum.org.uk/

Bevis Marks Synagogue:

Bevis Marks is the oldest synagogue in the UK, which was opened in 1701. It’s situated in the heart Central London in a historic building and is the only synagogue in Europe to have held continuous services for over 300 years. Tours are regularly held every Sunday, Wednesday & Friday, explaining the synagogues unique history and impressive architecture.

Website:  sephardi.org.uk/bevis-marks/

JW3 is London’s main Jewish community centre, that hosts a range of cultural events including lectures, arts & crafts and film screenings, along with walks and trips. There’s a vibrant community feel to the place, with Zest, a Kosher restaurant, situated in the heart of the centre.

Website: jw3.org.uk

London’s East End:

London’s East End was once the home of Jewish immigrants who arrived in the UK from Eastern Europe in the late 19th Century. Little remains of this once thriving community, as most Jews since moved out to the suburbs including Golders Green and Hendon. But the heritage lives on, with lots of historical blue placques indicating where former synagogues once stood around Spitalfields Market .

Kosher Places to Eat

There are lots of kosher places to eat in Golders Green and Hendon, two areas with large Jewish communities. In Central London, there are fewer options, with only one restaurant and several supermarkets offering Kosher products.

Central London:

Reubens is the only Kosher restaurant located in the West End (Central London). It’s situated on Bakers Street, close to Madame Tussauds and the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The restaurant serves high end classic Sephardic dishes.

Website:  reubensrestaurant.com

Tish is a Glatt Kosher restaurant located in Belsize Park, and although its outside of Central London, it’s right next to Belsize Park underground station, which means it is very easy to get to from Central London on the Northern Line. Tish serves a pre-paid Friday night dinner and Saturday Lunch menu.

Website:   tish.london

Selfridges:

Selfridges is a luxury department store located on Oxford Street. It has a kosher deli counter where you can buy Hermolis products including sandwiches, schnitzels, spring rolls, kebabs, breaded lamb chops, chicken wings, fish products and salads.

Other Supermarkets:

There are a few supermarkets in Central London that stock kosher sandwiches – Waitrose at the Brunswick Centre (close to the British Museum), John Lewis Food Hall on Oxford Street and Waitrose on Marylebone High Street (close to Madame Tussauds).

Outside Central London

There are lots of Kosher restaurants, delis, butchers and shops located in Golders Green, Hendon, Edgware and Ilford, all areas located in North London. Golders Green is perhaps the most well-known neighbourhood, with lots of Kosher restaurants located along Golders Green Road. The upscale neighbourhood of Hampstead is located nearby, along with Golders Hill Park and Hampstead Heath.

Places to see Further Afield:

The Gardens at Waddesdon Manor

Waddesdon Manor:

Waddesdon Manor was built for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, head of the most famous Jewish family in Britain in the 19th Century. Waddesdon is modelled on the palace of Versailles with extraordinary interiors and exteriors. Displays include a copy of the Balfour Declaration – the letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild. Rothschild was an important figure in British history, serving as a Member of Parliament and the estate was visited by Prime Ministers and Royals including Queen Victoria. During WWII, children from Croydon in London were evacuated and lived on the estate, along with Jewish refugees from Germany.

Princes ROad Synagogue, Liverpool

Founded in the late 1860’s this is the perhaps the most beautiful synagogue in the UK (pictured at the start of the article), and has influenced synagogue designs around the world, as far away as in Sydney, Australia. Visiting the synagogue can be arranged via a tour, and a time can be set up by calling the synagogue office on +44(0)1517093431

Website: princesroad.org

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Welcome to the Jewish Museum London!

Welcome to the Jewish Museum London, a museum that tells the story of the history and heritage of Jews in Britain through universal themes of migration, family, faith and culture. We exist for all people from all backgrounds and celebrate diversity in all its forms.

Our four permanent galleries showcase the vibrancy of Jewish life in Britain, including a recreation of London’s East End and rare items from our Designated collection of Jewish ceremonial art. Don’t miss our partnership changing gallery on the ground floor, or our brand new research and digitisation space on the third floor.

We have a cloakroom for small bags and coats but we are unable to store large bags and luggage. The cloakroom is available to all visitors and is free of charge.

If you are travelling with large or multiple suitcases, please note that our complimentary cloakroom has a limited capacity. We would advise that you leave your luggage at a suitable destination prior to visiting the museum.

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The museum is fully accessible. Lifts serve all floors of the building and accessible toilets are available on all floors. See our access page for further information.

We also have one wheelchair available for use, which can be accessed on arrival. Please book this in advance on 020 7284 7384.

We love having families visit and the museum is packed full of hands-on interactive displays and fun activities .

Food and Drink

Food is a big part of Jewish tradition and the same is true at the museum.

Our warm and welcoming café operates a fish-vegetarian menu that includes seasonal soup as well as fresh bagels and delicious cakes. The café does not operate under Kosher supervision.

Check out our list of unmissable things to see and do in the permanent displays at the Jewish Museum London.

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UK: A free new “Jews of London” self-guided walking tour launched

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• Posted on: April 28, 2021

Just in time — United Synagogue, the British orthodox synagogue umbrella, has launched a free new smartphone self-guided walking tour of historic Jewish London .

The Jewish of London tour is organized around 15 thematic “stops” in central London and the East End.

It is not a downloadable app, like so many self-guided tours.

Instead, it is based on  podcasts about the places and their history, which users must contact on the spot via smartphone data.

The podcasts last around four to six minutes and are accompanied by a picture and text, as well as a map of the “stop” location and directions how to walk there.

Sometimes the podcast will be about a broad period or area of Jewish history in London, and the picture or text will focus on something narrower. Sometimes, the document or text will be about something seemingly unrelated to the podcast, but we hope it will give you context.

The walk is connected through a web site, which also has an overall map — and you can also listen to the podcasts and read the textual material in your browser.

The web site advises:

The tour begins at the Barbican and ends at Fournier Street, Spitalfields.

​ Walking at the pace used by Google Maps to calculate distances and timings, if one walked from the first stop at Barbican to the last stop in Fournier Street, Spitalfields, it would take 52 minutes to cover the distance of just under 2.5 miles.

However, each podcast is 5 or 6 minutes long, and there are fifteen of them. That adds an hour and a half to the tour, not including any detours, loo breaks, coffee stops or avoidance of rain.

Not all destinations are equally-distanced. The last six or seven destinations in particular, are closer to each other than the others.

All in all, we hope that a fit walker who is keen but not so uncurious that they won’t be distracted by anything, might comfortably complete the tour in under four hours, taking some time for something to eat and without rushing. This doesn’t include travel time to or from the start (nearest tube: Barbican) or the end (nearest tube: Aldgate).

You might find the walk easier if you don’t do it all on one day, or even if you use a bicycle or a scooter between stops.

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Ian Fagelson, from London, is a volunteer tour guide who has led virtual Jewish history tours of London for over 900 people since October, raising £15,000 for charities 'Norwood' and 'World Jewish Relief' in the process.

Ian’s digital tour, ‘London’s Jews: A Thousand Years of History in One Hour’, takes people on a trip through London’s Jewish heritage, starting with the arrival of a small Jewish community from Normandy in 1066 and ending at the Kindertransport statue on the forecourt of Liverpool Street station, marking the arrival of Jewish children rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe between 1938-1940.

Prior to providing virtual tours due to the pandemic, Ian also fundraised through his on-the-streets tours, raising over £20,000 between 2018 and 2020 for a variety of charities. Ian’s support for ‘Norwood’ charity, a Jewish charity which supports vulnerable children and their families, adults with learning disabilities and autism, and children with special educational needs, comes from his involvement in setting up ‘The HOPE Charity’ in the 1990s as a parent of a child with learning disabilities, and which later merged with ‘Norwood’ in 2008. As part of this, Ian has led mountaineering challenges around the world, raising money for the charity.

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“As we mark the end of Chanukah, allow me to thank you for your free tours of London’s Jewish heritage, cherishing what is not just Jewish history but British history and the fantastic contribution of our Jewish community to our great capital city.

“You have inspired hundreds of families and raised thousands of pounds since going virtual this year, supporting two brilliant charities in “Norwood” and “World Jewish Relief”.

“I also want to express my admiration for all you have done – inspired by your son Jonathan – to establish “The HOPE charity” to support families with children with special needs.”

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‘top ten’ tour guide offers a charitable view of london.

Ian Fagelson's Jewish history, Shakespeare and 'sex and vice in Covent Garden' tours have proved a huge hit with Trip Advisor reviewers. And he's raised more than £25,000 for Norwood and World Jewish Relief

BY Rosa Doherty

When Ian Fagelson retired from his job as a partner in a City law firm, he wanted to keep his mind active.

The North Londoner completed a Master’s degree in history and took a cookery course. But then an advert for tour guide training caught his eye.

Two years of study qualified him as a City of London and Westminster tour guide. Eighteen months on, the 68-year-old has made it into Trip Advisor’s top ten London tour guides from a list of close-on 1,400.

As a history buff and “people person”, Mr Fagelson had decided it “might be fun” to design and lead tours with the proceeds going to charity. To date, they have raised more than £25,000 for Norwood and World Jewish Relief.

He is out in all weathers — most recently during the Ciara and Dennis storms — with “enthusiasm” and “expert knowledge” that has impressed Trip Advisor reviewers.

His tour topics include Jewish history, Shakespeare and the “quite popular” sex and vice in Covent Garden, which focuses on the on sex industry in the 1660s.

“At the time, Covent Garden was the red light district where all sorts of things would go on,” Mr Fagelson explained. “On the tour, we visit pubs and cover their various sordid histories. For some reason, people seem to quite like that one.”

His Jewish tour was different to others in that “I deliberately don’t cover the East End — there are loads of great tours in that area that people can already do. But there is a Jewish history all over London that people don’t know about.”

The £15 tour covers almost 1,000 years of Jewish history, from the arrival of a Jewish community from Normandy in 1066 to the child Kindertransport refugees of 1938.

“On our journey from Bank to Liverpool Street, we encounter the Jews of medieval London, the unfortunate Jewish doctor who inspired the creation of Shylock, Queen Victoria’s favourite prime minister, the Jewish stockbroker who saved the British economy during the 1745 Jacobite rising and the Protestant rabble-rouser who became an Orthodox Jew.”

Mr Fagelson — who lives in Hampstead Garden Suburb and is a New North London Synagogue member — is “delighted” to have made Trip Advisor’s top ten.“It is a really nice feeling to know people have gone online to make the effort.”

For him, the best thing about the tours is the opportunity “to meet people from all over the world. It takes all sorts but there is something about walking tours — the people who take them are always nice.”

One Chinese woman was so enamoured by the Jewish history tour that she invited him to see Fiddler on the Roof with her to explain what was going on. “I get a lot of bookings from Chinese tourists who are fascinated with Jews and Jewish history.”

He enjoys “researching bespoke tours for people who are interested in specific things” and recently designed a medical research tour of London for a group of doctors.

“I love taking people to places they have never been before and people love the fact that the money goes to charity.”

An added incentive is Mr Fagelson’s personal connection to Norwood as the charity has supported his son Jonathan, who has a learning disability, since birth.

“Norwood has been wonderful to my family, which is why I am very active in fundraising for it and always have been,” he said. “They have helped Jonathan enormously with his self-confidence and cognitive abilities.”

His 30-year-old son is currently involved in Norwood’s Sara’s Kitchen project, which offers young adults courses in catering and barista training, while also developing their independence and social skills.

As well as raising money for Jewish charities, Mr Fagelson has designed tours to support other good causes including Child.org, which works to lift people and communities out of poverty.

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Establishing a Jewish East End in London, 1880-1914

The East End has a long association with immigration, offering a first home to many new arrivals to London. From the end of the 19th century the settlement of thousands of Jewish families fleeing persecution in east Europe transformed Whitechapel and Spitalfields into a cosmopolitan, vibrant district where Yiddish could be heard on every street.

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Between 1880 and 1914, London’s small Jewish community was transformed by the arrival, into the UK, of 150,000 East European and Russian Jewish refugees. Fleeing economic hardship and religious persecution, up to 70% of the new immigrants settled in London’s East End swelling an already well-established Jewish neighbourhood concentrated in the area between Spitalfields and Whitechapel.

Jews coming in to London, 1902-1903

An illustration from ‘Sweated London’ by George Sims , an essay on the experiences of immigrant Jews when they land in London. (ID no.: LIB5332/MH2)

This district of London had long been associated with immigration primarily due to its proximity to the docks and Liverpool Street railway station, the point of disembarkation for those entering the capital via the port of Harwich. Arriving with little apart from the name of a relative or friend with whom they could find temporary shelter, the new immigrants were encouraged to settle in the area due to the availability of cheap housing, cultural and social networks, and plentiful work opportunities.

Where did Jewish people initially settle in London?

The impact of mass Jewish immigration on an already overcrowded East End raised some concerns amongst the authorities as well as the established Anglo-Jewish community and overstretched charity workers. To outsiders, the Jewish East End seemed an alien ghetto populated by “strange exotics”. Their unfamiliar language, diet and religion could raise suspicion and crimes that appeared to be “foreign to the English style”, including the Jack the Ripper murders, were often falsely blamed on the new arrivals.

It was against this growing climate of concern that George Arkell was, in 1899, commissioned to create a map illustrating the spatial distribution of the growing Jewish community in the Spitalfields and Whitechapel area. The map was published in The Jew in London: a study of racial character and present-day conditions , alongside essays by Cyril Russell and Harry Samuel Lewis that aimed to “describe the Jewish community in London”, and assess the social and economic impact of the new arrivals on the capital. Arkell adapted the method of colour coding used in Charles Booth’s 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty to identify levels of poverty to illustrate, in this case, the density of Jewish residency in each street.

Jewish East London, 1899: a map by George Arkell

The map uses colour-coding to show the proportion of the Jewish population to other residents of East London. (ID no.: LIB26770)

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The colour key to George Arkell’s 1899 map, with blue representing highest density of Jewish population, and red, the least. (ID no.: LIB26770)

Jewish families were identified by their names, their schools and the observance of Jewish holidays. However, the Jewish East End was not a segregated ‘ghetto’, and Jews and non-Jews lived side by side. Christian children known as ‘Shabas goy’ would be employed to light fires in Jewish homes on the Sabbath and many non-Jewish women were employed as cleaners and took in washing for their wealthier Jewish neighbours.

In his introduction to The Jew in London , Samuel Barnett expresses the hope that the publication will “do away with the prejudices which are founded either on the selfishness which is jealousy of the Jews’ success or on the ignorance which is irritated at their different habits and opinions” and “dissuade any attempt to check by law the entry into England”. Just five years later, however, the government passed the UK’s first immigration act.

Petticoat Lane Market in Middlesex Street, east London, 1909-1910

A postcard showing crowds in Petticoat Lane, a centre for the manufacture and trade of garments. The area housed a high proportion of Jewish immigrants. (ID no.: NN16332)

The Aliens Act of 1905 aimed to restrict immigration solely to refugees fleeing religious or political persecution. It was also meant to allay fears of the existing population that Jewish immigrants were taking jobs from locals and keeping wages low whilst pushing up rents in the area. But while anti-Jewish sentiment could flare up in street fights and also found an official voice in the anti-alien pressure group British Brothers League, established in 1901, anti-Semitism was not a mass movement within the East End at the turn of the 20th century. Most non-Jews living in the East End within the area accepted the ways of their immigrant neighbours.

The Jewish East End was a vibrant, self-contained neighbourhood. Throughout the working week community life focused on Wentworth Street or ‘The Lane’, which resounded with the sounds and activity of Yiddish-speaking traders. On Saturday evenings, social activity transferred to the wide pavements of the Whitechapel Road as Jewish families celebrated the close of the Sabbath by partaking of ‘The Saturday Walk’. Although Polish, Russian and Eastern European Jews were culturally diverse the Yiddish language was a common bond uniting all new arrivals.

Jewish tailors in London

Many Jewish immigrants found local employment in the clothing industry which, by the 1880s, was dominated by the ‘sweating’ system of small workshops and the subdivision of labour into unskilled or semiskilled tasks. In 1889, Charles Booth’s researchers counted 571 workshops making men’s coats in less than one square mile in and around Whitechapel. Most employed fewer than 10 workers confined for long hours in cramped, damp and steamy workrooms, an ideal breeding ground for tuberculosis.

Schneiders Garment Factory, Durward Street, Stepney, c1917

Workers operating in cramped conditions at a clothing factory in Stepney owned by the Jewish Schneider family. (ID no.: IN3853)

Whilst the clothing trade dominated the Jewish East End employing up to 70% of its workforce, others found employment as local market traders and shopkeepers providing the services essential for maintaining the Jewish way of life. Jewish grocery stores, bagel bakeries and kosher restaurants thrived and by 1901 there were 15 kosher butchers in Wentworth Street.

The immigrants maintained religious traditions by attending small, self-administered synagogues based on the old village communities of Eastern Europe . Initially housed in homes and workshops, many of these smaller congregations amalgamated within the Federation of Synagogues but the East End synagogues remained small in contrast to the larger cathedral style synagogues preferred by the established Anglo-Jewish community.

Education was regarded as a means to economic and social advancement and most Jewish parents applied to send their children to the voluntary aided Jews’ Free School in Bell Lane which, by 1900, had over 4,000 pupils and was the largest school in Europe . Here the emphasis was on integration. Pupils were encouraged to discard the Yiddish language and focus on becoming little English men and women. After school, children attended Hebrew classes in small cheders (rooms in the home of the religious teacher) or at larger religious schools such as The Talmud Torah in Brick Lane, where classes often had over 100 pupils. Many also joined Jewish youth clubs that aimed to help Jewish youths straddle the bridge between Jewish and English cultural traditions by ironing out the “ghetto bend” in immigrant lads.

The varied activities of the children in the Jews' Free School

Images from an article in The Sphere magazine, 1 February 1908. It describes the work of the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields. (ID no.: 2006.79/25)

Creating a supportive Jewish community in London

The established Anglo-Jewish population supported the new arrivals through charitable assistance and advice. Jewish immigrants received help from a large network of relief agencies, including the Jewish Board of Guardians, which gave loans for the purchase of sewing machines, and the Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter on Leman Street, which offered board and lodging for the first two weeks of arrival.

A young Anglo-Jewish couple on a Jewish New Year greetings card , 1891-1910. (ID no.: IN4925)

Wealthy Anglo-Jewish families, including the Rothschilds, also supported the building of affordable living accommodation for skilled Jewish workers. The first tenement block built primarily for Jewish immigrants, the Charlotte de Rothschild Dwellings , opened in 1887 in Flower and Dean Street. A second estate soon opened in Brady Street and the Nathaniel Dwellings, accommodating up to 800 Jewish workers, were completed in 1892. There was a strong sense of community within the Rothschild buildings. Many had young families and by the 1890s there was a birth in the Buildings every nine or ten days.

The arrival of the Jewish immigrants transformed Whitechapel and Spitalfields into a cosmopolitan, vibrant district filled with extended families. Despite high levels of poverty, many who grew up in the Jewish East End, such as artist Mark Gertler, comedian Bud Flanagan, diamond merchant Berney Barnato and writer Israel Zangwill found the area also provided inspiration for success in later life. Although many immigrants arrived penniless, their hard work and drive to improve their lives ensured that the East End Jewish population was socially more upwardly mobile than the surrounding non-Jewish population.

This is an edited excerpt of the essay ‘The Jewish East London, 1899’ published by Old House Books in 2012.

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Maurice El Medioni, Pianist Who Fused Jewish and Arab Music, Dies at 95

An Algerian, he combined the music of his Sephardic roots with Arab traditions, incorporating boogie-woogie and other influences to create a singular style.

By Adam Nossiter

Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who fused Jewish and Arab musical traditions into a singular style he called “Pianoriental,” died on March 25 in Herzliya, on Israel’s central coast. He was 95.

His death, at a nursing home, was confirmed by his manager, Yvonne Kahan.

Mr. Medioni was one of the last representatives of a once vibrant Jewish-Arab musical culture that flourished in North Africa before and after World War II and proudly drew from both heritages.

In Oran, the Algerian port where he was born, he was sought after by Arabs and Jews alike to play at weddings and at banquets in the years between the war and 1961, when the threat of violence and Algeria’s new independence from France drove Mr. Medioni and thousands of other Jews to flee.

With his bounding octaves, his quasi-microtonal shifts in the style of traditional Arab music, his cheeky rumba rhythms learned from American G.I.s after the 1942 Allied invasion, and his roots in the Jewish-Arab musical heritage called andalous, Mr. Medioni had honed a distinctive piano style by his early 20s.

The singers he accompanied often alternated phrases in French and Arabic in a style known as “Françarabe.” His uncle Messaoud El Medioni was a famous musician known as Saoud L’Oranais , a leading practitioner of andalous, who was deported by the Germans to the Sobibor death camp in 1943 and killed there.

The Medioni style remained buried and nearly forgotten for four decades as Mr. Medioni pursued his trade as a men’s tailor. He kept it alive in private, performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs after he was forced to flee to France. Then, in 1996, when he was 68, he released a breakthrough album, “Café Oran.” Its success led to a belated second life as a star of so-called world music — concert tours in Europe, appearances in documentary films and a major role as mentor to a new generation of Israeli musicians anxious to recover the musical heritage of their Sephardic heritage.

In 2017, he published “ A Memoir: From Oran to Marseilles (1938-1992) ,” which reproduces Mr. Medioni’s cursive scrawl in French, alongside a printed English translation.

Mr. Medioni has “come to symbolize something, the last of his generation,” said Christopher Silver, a specialist in the Jewish musical tradition of North Africa, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.

The British radio broadcaster Max Reinhardt wrote in the introduction to the memoir, “Maurice is a compulsive and innately hip musician, always searching for other music and musical styles, part of a group of Muslim and Jewish musicians who quite naturally in the 1940s and ’50s forged a new music together in North Africa.”

Two events were decisive in the shaping of Pianoriental, and both occurred early in Mr. Medioni’s life, as he grew up poor in Oran’s Jewish quarter, Derb. (“One shared toilet for our whole floor on which there were six apartments,” he wrote in his memoir.)

The first was his encounter with the American G.I.s in occupied Oran on Nov. 8, 1942, when he was 14. “From the moment the Yanks arrived in Oran, our family’s way of life completely changed,” he wrote.

The Americans introduced him to a rollicking boogie-woogie style that pushed the French pop songs on which he had been raised to the background.

A street-smart young teenager, he became indispensable to the Americans, taking them to bars and brothels.

“I would crisscross the nine piano bars,” Mr. Medioni told an interviewer in 2015 . “When one of the pianos was free, I would play all the American hits which I’d learned, and that would attract the G.I.s.”

He recalled being awed by the Black American jazz musicians he saw perform. “I saw them improvise. I was open-mouthed,” he said. “When I came home I would try to reproduce what they did.”

The second decisive event occurred in 1947, when three young Arab musicians walked into a bar where he was drinking, and they all began to sing and play together.

“That was how the first modern Arabic music group was born, a group which would make me the most popular Jewish guy amongst all the Muslims in the whole Orani province,” Mr. Medioni wrote. His synthesis of jazz, boogie-woogie, andalous and Arab rai and chaabi — two forms of Algerian popular music from the streets, in some cases characterized by lengthy narrative song — was born.

“There are few figures that are trying to play this oriental piano,” Mr. Silver said. “Medioni is doing it very well, with the left hand and the right hand. He is trying to update, modernize, and still have it be oriental or Arab music.”

Maurice El Medioni was born on Oct. 18, 1928, in Oran, in what was then French Algeria. His father, Jacob Medioni, ran the Café Saoud with his brother Messaoud and died when Maurice was 7, leaving the boy’s mother, Fany Medioni, to raise four children — three boys and a girl — in poverty.

His musical gifts were apparent early; almost entirely self-taught, he honed his skills on a piano that his brother had brought home from a flea market. The war intensified the family’s hardship, and all the Jewish children were expelled from Oran’s schools by the French authorities. “We were short of everything,” Mr. Medioni wrote.

The invasion by the Americans in 1942 was “a deliverance for all the Jews of North Africa,” he wrote. And by the mid-1950s, he was not only a successful tailor among Oran’s Muslims but also a much sought-after musician, as was his brother Alex. “All the Arab orchestras wanted to work with me,” he wrote. “‘These are our guys,’ is what they used to say.”

But as Algeria’s war of independence intensified, one of his original Arab music partners was shot by revolutionaries, and Mr. Medioni stopped playing at Arab celebrations.

In the spring of 1961, he and his young family boarded a boat for Israel; six months later, they left for France. Years of struggle followed, as Mr. Medioni established tailor shops, first in Paris and then in Marseille. But he continued to play at weddings and galas with stars from the Jewish-Arab North African music scene that had by then been transplanted to France. They included Lili Boniche, Line Monty, Reinette l’Oranaise and Samy Elmaghribi.

At the end of the 1980s, Mr. Medioni recorded himself on a cassette in his living room in Marseille and sent it to a producer at Buda Musique, a specialist record label in Paris. That was the beginning of his revival.

After the “Café Oran” record, there was a concert at the Barbican in London in 2000 with Mr. Boniche; a tour with a well-known British Klezmer band, Oi Va Voi; and an album recorded in New York with the Cuban percussionist Roberto Rodriguez. Mr. Medioni played a leading role in “El Gusto,” a 2012 documentary and album project about the reunion of an orchestra of older Jewish and Arab musicians from Algeria.

In 2011, he moved to Israel with his wife, Juliette (Amsellem) Medioni, to be close to his children. He continued to record and perform, notably with the Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra Ashkelon.

His wife died in 2022. He is survived by his children, Yacov, Marilyne and Michael, and five grandchildren.

Mr. Medioni was acutely aware that he might very well have been the last of his breed. In a 2003 interview included in the appendix of his memoir, he told the British musician Jonathan Walton that he doubted andalous would survive him.

“It won’t,” he said. “Maurice Medioni is telling you that it won’t. It will only be listened to from time to time by people who have some nostalgia, and by youngsters who love their parents.”

Adam Nossiter has been bureau chief in Kabul, Paris, West Africa and New Orleans, and is now a Domestic Correspondent on the Obituaries desk. More about Adam Nossiter

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London police to meet with Jewish leaders as protests spark concerns about the safety of Jews

FILE - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks in London, Nov. 9, 2023. London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday April 22, 2024 after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish’’ man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators. (James Manning/PA via AP, File)

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LONDON (AP) — London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish’’ man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators.

Amid calls for his resignation, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is also expected to meet with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary James Cleverly, who together are responsible for law and order in the city.

“We remain focused on doing everything possible to ensure Jewish Londoners feel safe in this city,” the Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement Sunday. “We know recent events and some of our recent actions have contributed to concerns felt by many.”

The meeting comes as London police struggle to manage tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war , with some Jewish residents saying they feel threatened by repeated pro-Palestinian marches through the streets of the U.K. capital.

The marches have been largely peaceful. However, many demonstrators accuse Israel of genocide and a small number have shown support for Hamas, the group that led the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and which has been banned by the U.K. government as a terrorist organization.

The Metropolitan Police force has deployed thousands of officers during each of the dozen major marches as it seeks to protect the rights of the pro-Palestinian protesters and prevent clashes with counterdemonstrators and Jewish residents.

In addition to meeting with leaders of the Jewish community, senior police officers wrote to the man at the center of the latest controversy, offering to meet with him to apologize and discuss what more could be done to “ensure Jewish Londoners feel safe.″

Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap when he was stopped by police while trying to cross a street in central London as demonstrators filed past on April 13.

One officer told Falter he was worried that the man’s “quite openly Jewish” appearance could provoke a reaction from the protesters, according to video posted on social media by the campaign group. A second officer then told Falter he would be arrested if he refused to be escorted out of the area, because he would be “causing a breach of the peace.”

Metropolitan Police initially apologized for the language the officer used in describing Falter’s appearance, but said counterdemonstrators had to be aware “that their presence is provocative.”

The department later deleted that apology from its social media accounts and issued a second statement.

“In an effort to make a point about the policing of protest we caused further offense,” the force said on Friday. “This was never our intention. ... Being Jewish is not a provocation. Jewish Londoners must be able to feel safe in the city.”

London police to meet with Jewish leaders as protests spark concerns about the safety of Jews

London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish″ man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators

LONDON -- London's police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an "openly Jewish'' man's presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators.

Amid calls for his resignation, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is also expected to meet with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary James Cleverly, who together are responsible for law and order in the city.

“We remain focused on doing everything possible to ensure Jewish Londoners feel safe in this city,” the Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement Sunday. “We know recent events and some of our recent actions have contributed to concerns felt by many.”

The meeting comes as London police struggle to manage tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war, with some Jewish residents saying they feel threatened by repeated pro-Palestinian marches through the streets of the U.K. capital.

The marches have been largely peaceful. However, many demonstrators accuse Israel of genocide and a small number have shown support for Hamas, the group that led the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and which has been banned by the U.K. government as a terrorist organization.

The Metropolitan Police force has deployed thousands of officers during each of the dozen major marches as it seeks to protect the rights of the pro-Palestinian protesters and prevent clashes with counterdemonstrators and Jewish residents.

In addition to meeting with leaders of the Jewish community, senior police officers wrote to the man at the center of the latest controversy, offering to meet with him to apologize and discuss what more could be done to “ensure Jewish Londoners feel safe.″

Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, was wearing a traditional Jewish skullcap when he was stopped by police while trying to cross a street in central London as demonstrators filed past on April 13.

One officer told Falter he was worried that the man’s “quite openly Jewish” appearance could provoke a reaction from the protesters, according to video posted on social media by the campaign group. A second officer then told Falter he would be arrested if he refused to be escorted out of the area, because he would be “causing a breach of the peace.”

Metropolitan Police initially apologized for the language the officer used in describing Falter’s appearance, but said counterdemonstrators had to be aware “that their presence is provocative.”

The department later deleted that apology from its social media accounts and issued a second statement.

“In an effort to make a point about the policing of protest we caused further offense,” the force said on Friday. “This was never our intention. ... Being Jewish is not a provocation. Jewish Londoners must be able to feel safe in the city.”

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