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🌳 MaghrebiPatronymic
The Alfassi Family
Write the Great Bookאלפסי
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Alfassi lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronyme porté par plusieurs figures juives documentées (Almoravides, Tunisie (Tunis)). Cette fiche regroupe 2 figures du corpus partageant ce nom ; leurs liens généalogiques précis restent à documenter.
Geographic origin: Almoravides, Tunisie (Tunis)
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The Great Book of the Alfassi lineage has not yet been written.
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/alfassiHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/alfassi">Alfassi — Zakhor</a>Citation
Alfassi — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/alfassiVariants of the name (23)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin22
AfasiAl-FasiAlfasiALFASSIAlfasyBen AlfasiBen ElfasiEl FassiEl FassyElfasiElfassiELFASSYELFHASSIELHFASSIFassiFASSYLefassiELFASYAlfassyElfaciElphassyLefassy
עברית · Hebrew1
אלפסי
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Notable figures
- 1.
Isaac ben Jacob Alfassi
Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (1013–1103)
- 2.
Massoud Raphaël Alfassi
Grand rabbin de Tunis, auteur de Mishha de-Rabbuta, commentaire du Choulhan Aroukh.
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 Alfassi.
Search “Alfassi” 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
Alfasi, Isaac ben Reuben
Isaac Alfasi (le Rif)
רי"ף1013–1103
Yitshak Alfassi
né en 1014
Moshe Alfassi
mentionné en 1438
Maimon Alfassi
mentionné en 1729
Massoud Raphaël Alfassi
מסעוד רפאל אלפאסיm. 1776
Messod Alfassi
Maroc (Fès)
Reuben Alfassi
Maroc
Yaakov Alfassi
Maroc
Yitshak Alfassi
mentionné en 1789
Mordekhay Alfassi
mentionné en 1805
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
AlmoravidesTunisie (Tunis)
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Alfassi give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Recorded burials
Alfasi Moshe Yitzhaksuggested match
Cimetière juif d'Otwock · Otwock
Alfassi Maimon
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
Alfassi Messod
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
Alfassi Mordekhay
Cimetière juif Miâara · Marrakech
Alfassi Moshe
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
Alfassi Reuben ben Yitshak (ha-Rif)
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
Alfassi Yaakov ben Yitshak (ha-Rif)
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
Alfassi Yitshak (ha-Rif)
Cimetière juif de Fès · Fès
elfassi halosuggested match
Cimetière juif de Tanger — route de Rabat · Tanger
elfassi hasibasuggested match
Cimetière juif de Tanger — route de Rabat · Tanger
elfassi josphsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Tanger — route de Rabat · Tanger
elfassi meirsuggested match
Cimetière juif Miâara · Marrakech
Bibliography
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Instituto B. Arias Montano, Madrid (1978)
- ALFASI, ISAAC BEN JACOB — JewishEncyclopedia.com ↗
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