Jacob Hassan, PhD (11 June 1936 – 13 August 2006) was a Spanish

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of Sephardic Jewish descent from

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, North Africa.

Biography

Hassan was born to a Sephardic 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, renowned in Spain and abroad. On 13 September 2012, a passageway near the town hall of

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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 {{Judaism-bio-stub