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Jun 10, 1922 Essaouira, Marrakesh Safi, Morocco Died on 31 Mar 2004 (aged 81)
Scholar of Moroccan history
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About Haim Zafrani
- Haim Zafrani (Arabic : ????? ???????), born in 1922 in Essaouira-2004), was a Moroccan born French 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 (1903–1975), 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 (translated and published in an English edition). 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, (1982–1983), the Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi prize (1985), the Grand Atlas prize (1999), and the Prize of Maghreb (2001). Haim Zafrani wrote fifteen books and more than a hundred articles covering Jewish culture, languages, and literature in the Muslim countries of North Africa, especially Morocco, as well as the history of the Jews in Muslim Spain.
