Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Maghrebi
The Kalfon Family
Write the Great Bookקלפן
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Kalfon lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Meaning of the name: from Arabic: sovereign, substitute or replacement (successor who ensures the lineage) — source: Dafina, "The names of the Jews of Morocco."
Geographic origin: Libye (Tripoli)
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Kalfon 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
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Kalfon. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Kalfon, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/kalfonThe address zakhor.ai/kalfon 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/kalfonHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/kalfon">Kalfon — Zakhor</a>Citation
Kalfon — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/kalfonVariants of the name (10)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin9
CalfonCalfounGhalfonHalfonHalfounKalfounKalfouneKhalfonHALLON
עברית · Hebrew1
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Notable figures
- 1.
Abraham Khalfon
Dirigeant communautaire, historien et poète liturgique de Tripoli ; auteur de Hayyei Avrah
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 Kalfon.
Search “Kalfon” 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
Works & texts (2)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
fin XVIIIe s.
Histoire des Juifs de Tripoli (manuscrit)
Abraham Khalfon
Manuscrit (chronique historique) de Abraham Khalfon. (fin XVIIIe s.)
rédigé v.1780, imprimé à titre posthume en 1826 par son fils Rahamim
Hayyei Avraham
Abraham Khalfon
Commentaire halakhique (sur les mitzvot du Choulhan Aroukh, Orah Hayyim et Yoreh Deah, appuyé sur Talmud et Zohar) de Abraham Khalfon. (rédigé v.1780, imprimé à titre posthume en 1826 par son fils Rahamim)
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
Libye (Tripoli)
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Kalfon give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day
Bibliography
- Abraham I. Laredo, Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Madrid (1978)
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