Haim Zafrani

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1922 – 2004

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Who was Haim Zafrani?

Haim Zafrani was a Moroccan scholar and writer.

Zafrani is particularly noted for having collected and preserved much or the music and oral poetry of the Jews of Morocco. He recorded, and thereby preserved, the melodies of Rabbi David Buzaglo, widely acclaimed as the greatest paytan of his time.

Zafrani, was also a leading scholar on the history of the Jews of Morocco. His best-known book is 2000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco.

Zafrani began his career as a teacher and became a school inspector in charge of the teaching of Arabic in the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools in Morocco. Later, Zafrani moved to Paris, France, where he was a professor and head of the Department of Hebrew language and Jewish civilization at the University of Paris. He was member of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Semitiques of College de France, a member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He was awarded the Irving and Bertha Neuman Distinguished Scholar Award, the Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi prize, the Grand Atlas prize, and the Prize of Maghreb.

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Born
1922
Essaouira
Also known as
  • Haïm Zafrani
Died
2004

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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