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Zakhor
HistoryFigure1858–1938

Region: Tunis (famille originaire de Djerba)

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Master ceramicist of Tunis (workshop in the Place des Potiers, from approximately 1880; tiles adorning Tunis, Sidi Bou Saïd, La Marsa). Concurrently a man of letters: from 1878 he pursued for more than thirty years a career as journalist and actor in the rise of Tunisian Judeo-Arab literature; legal representative to the Beth Din of Tunis and founding member of the Jewish Hospital of Tunis.

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