Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
🌳 MaghrebiAttesté au XVIe siècle (liste Tolédano)
The Bonafad Family
Write the Great BookOrigin of the name, history and genealogy of the Bonafad lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Patronyme sans doute d'origine provençale signifiant « bonne fête », traduction du prénom hébreu Yom Tob, autrefois couramment porté en France et en Espagne ; le rabbin Eisenbeth y voit aussi une possible origine arabe, indicative d'un métier, le savetier ou le carreleur. Le nom figure sur la liste Tolédano des patronymes usuels au Maroc au XVIe siècle. La famille a donné des rabbins : rabbi Yehouda Bonafad exerça…
Geographic origin: Maroc — Sefrou, Rabat-Salé (nom sans doute d'origine provençale)
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Bonafad 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.
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History
Patronyme sans doute d'origine provençale signifiant « bonne fête », traduction du prénom hébreu Yom Tob, autrefois couramment porté en France et en Espagne ; le rabbin Eisenbeth y voit aussi une possible origine arabe, indicative d'un métier, le savetier ou le carreleur. Le nom figure sur la liste Tolédano des patronymes usuels au Maroc au XVIe siècle. La famille a donné des rabbins : rabbi Yehouda Bonafad exerça à Rabat-Salé au XVIIe siècle, et rabbi Mimoun Bonafad fut rabbin à Sefrou au XVIIIe siècle. Au XXe siècle, le nom était extrêmement peu répandu, porté semble-t-il uniquement au Maroc, à Sefrou, Rabat et Casablanca, ce qui en fait l'un des patronymes rares dont la trace est essentiellement rabbinique et marocaine.
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Link
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bonafad">Bonafad — Zakhor</a>Citation
Bonafad — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bonafadVariants of the name (1)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
BONFAD
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Notable figures
- 1.
Rabbi Yehouda Bonafad
Rabbin à Rabat-Salé au XVIIe siècle
- 2.
Rabbi Mimoun Bonafad
Rabbin à Sefrou au XVIIIe siècle
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 Bonafad.
Search “Bonafad” 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
Places along the journey
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Bonafad give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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