Fez-born linguist and activist who fought for Moroccan independence and was jailed and tortured in 1965. A professor in Rabat, he led the Foundation of Jewish-Moroccan Cultural Heritage and from 1998 directed the Museum of Moroccan Judaism in Casablanca, the first Jewish museum in the Arab world.
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