Diploma in classic Arabic given to mr Zafrani by Moroccan arts Academy in 1955

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Haim Zafrani (Arabic : حاييم زعفراني), 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 (author of Jewish liturgical poem) of his Bayt Dakira or the House of Memory is a Jewish museum located in the Jewish quarter "Mellah" of Essaouira's old medina in Morocco. The museum aims to be a spiritual space dedicated to the Jewish community of the city. It plays an important role in the preservation and valorisation of the Moroccan Jewish memory.

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Location: Bayt Dakira, Museum in Essaouira, Morocco
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