Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Maghrebi
The Aflalo Family
Write the Great Bookאפללו
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Aflalo lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Meaning of the name: place names: Assif Afella Draa, Ksar Afelilou or Oulad Ifli (Tafilalet), Morocco — source: Dafina, « Les noms des Juifs du Maroc ». Surname of Berber origin, probably indicative of an origin: the fortified ksar of Afelilo, in the valley of the Oued Outat in the Souss (southern Morocco), formerly with a large Jewish population. David Corcos also links the name to the village of Oufran…
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Aflalo lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
Web research
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
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In the meantime
This book tells the story of the Aflalo. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
History
Meaning of the name: place names: Assif Afella Draa, Ksar Afelilou or Oulad Ifli (Tafilalet), Morocco — source: Dafina, « Les noms des Juifs du Maroc ».
Surname of Berber origin, probably indicative of an origin: the fortified ksar of Afelilo, in the valley of the Oued Outat in the Souss (southern Morocco), formerly with a large Jewish population. David Corcos also links the name to the village of Oufran, considered to have housed the first Jewish community of Morocco. — Source: J. Toledano, « Une histoire de familles : les noms de famille juifs d'Afrique du Nord ».
To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Aflalo, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/aflaloThe address zakhor.ai/aflalo leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/aflaloHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/aflalo">Aflalo — Zakhor</a>Citation
Aflalo — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/aflaloVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin6
AfflaloAflalouben aflaloAFILALOAFRALOALALOU
עברית · Hebrew1
אפללו
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In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Aflalo.
Search “Aflalo” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Notable figures of the lineage
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Aflalo give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Madrid (1978)