Jacob Hassan, PhD (11 June 1936 – 13 August 2006) was a Spanish
philologist
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of Sephardic Jewish descent from
Ceuta
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, North Africa.
Biography
Hassan was born to a
Sephardic
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
Jewish family in Ceuta.
Hassan was a member of the Jewish Community of Madrid, a scientific researcher of the
Higher Council for Scientific Research (ILC), and, among other things, founder and promoter of the
Spanish School of Sephardic Studies
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, renowned in Spain and abroad. On 13 September 2012, a passageway near the town hall of
Estella
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People
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, Spain was officially named after him.
[http://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/viewFile/421/515 ]
References
1936 births
2006 deaths
Spanish people of Jewish descent
People from Ceuta
European Sephardi Jews
Linguists of Judaeo-Spanish
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