Azoulay, sometimes spelled Azoulai, Azulai or Azulay (), etc. is a
Sephardi Jewish
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 ...
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
, common among Jews of
Moroccan descent. It is assumed that the family name Azulai is an acronym of the biblical restriction on whom a Kohen may marry: אשה זנה וחללה לא יקחו (Leviticus, 21:7) and, thus, indicating priestly descent. The Hebrew phrase ''ishah zonah ve'challelah lo yikachu'' means "a woman of ill repute or divorced
sraelite womanshall not he
he Kohentake".
People
Azoulay family of Fes
Azoulay, is the name of a notable Jewish family descended from Spanish exiles who, after the
expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and following decades, settled in the city of
Fez, Morocco
Fez () or Fes (; ) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fez-Meknes, Fez-Meknes administrative region. It is one of the List of cities in Morocco, largest cities in Morocco, with a population of 1.256 million, according to ...
. The family includes:
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Abraham Azulai
Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) () was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fez, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Ottoman Palestine and settled in Hebron.
Biography
In Hebron, Azulai wrote a commentary on the ''Zohar'' under the ...
( 1570 – 1643) – Kabbalistic author and commentator best known for his ''Chessed le-Avraham''
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Chaim Yosef David Azulai
Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Yitzhak Zerachia (; 1724 – 1 March 1806), commonly known as the Hida (also spelled Chida, the acronym of his name, ), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication o ...
(1724–1807) – a rabbinical scholar and a noted bibliophile, who pioneered the history of Jewish religious writings.
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Raphael Isaiah Azulai (died 1830) – rabbi and writer.
Others
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André Azoulay
André Azoulay (, , , born 17 April 1941) is a Moroccan politician, activist and diplomat. He is a senior adviser to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Mohammed VI of Morocco. Azoulay previously advised Mohammed's father, king Hassan II of Morocco, Ha ...
– Senior adviser to King Mohammed VI of Morocco
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Audrey Azoulay
Audrey Azoulay (; born 4 August 1972) is a French Jew of Moroccan descent, French Civil Service, civil servant and politician who has served as the 11th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN ...
– French Minister of Culture
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Blanche Azoulay – Algerian lawyer
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Daniel Azulay – Brazilian visual artist, comic book artist, and educator
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Shay K. Azoulay
Shay K. Azoulay () is an Israeli writer who writes in English and Hebrew.
Plays
Azoulay's debut play, "The Platoon", a satire about the IDF, won first place in the 2012 staged reading festival "Zav Kriah". The play was staged in Tel Aviv's Tzav ...
– Israeli writer
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Jean-Luc Azoulay
Jean-Luc Azoulay also known by the pseudonym Jean-François Porry (born 1947 in Sétif, then French Algeria) is a French television producer. He was born in Algeria to a Sephardic Jewish family.
In 1987, with the ''Club Dorothée'', he develope ...
– French filmmaker, see
AB Disques
Mediawan Thematics (formerly known as AB Groupe) is a French television channel business and audiovisual distribution group in the field of broadcasting that is owned by Mediawan.
History
Mediawan Thematics had its roots under the name of AB Pr ...
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Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (; born Tel Aviv, born February 21, 1962) is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature ...
– Israeli scholar and documentarian, see
Herzliya Biennial
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Jom Tob Azulay
Jom Tob Azulay (born 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a filmmaker and former diplomat. He has taught film at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Career
From 1971 to 1974, he served as deputy-consul of Brazil in Los Angeles whi ...
– Brazilian film producer and director
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Simon Azoulay Pedersen – Danish football player
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Yinon Azulai
Yinon Azulai (; born 10 July 1979) is an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Shas.
Political career
Azulai was sixteenth on the Shas list for the 2015 Knesset elections, but failed to become a Knesset member when Sh ...
– Israeli politician
See also
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Azoulay v. The Queen'', landmark 1952
Canadian Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; , ) is the Supreme court, highest court in the Court system of Canada, judicial system of Canada. It comprises List of justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate a ...
case, wherein Dr. Leon Azoulay was accused of murder after the death of a patient receiving an abortion
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The Policeman
''The Policeman'' () is a 1971 Israeli feature film, written, directed and co-produced by satirist Ephraim Kishon. The touching protagonist `The Policeman Azoulay` is played by Shaike Ophir (credited as Shay K. Ophir), in what is considered one of ...
'', Hashoter Azoulay was the original title of the Israeli film ''The Policeman''
References
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Surnames of Sephardic origin
Surnames of Maghrebi Jewish origin
Surnames of Moroccan origin
Kohenitic surnames