David Cazès
{{Short description|Moroccan-Jewish educator (1851–1913)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = David Cazès
| birth_date = 1851
| occupation = {{Cslist|Writer|educator}}
| birth_place = Tétouan, Morocco
| caption = Educator David Cazes (beyond the desk) and a group of teachers and rabbis, Tunis, 1887.
| image = David Cazes.png
| death_date = 1913
| subject = Jewish diaspora
| years_active = 1869–1913
| education = Alliance Israélite Universelle
}}
David Cazès (1851, Tétouan, Morocco – 1913) was a Moroccan Jewish educator and writer.
Early life
Sent to Paris in his early youth, Cazès was educated by the Alliance Israélite Universelle,{{Cite book |last=Laskier |first=Michael M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxZE3-K3AR4C |title=The Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862-1962 |date=2012-02-01 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-1-4384-1016-6 |language=en}} and at the age of 18 was commissioned to establish and direct several primary schools in the East; namely, at Volos in Thessaly (1869), at Smyrna (1873), and at Tunis (February 1878–1893). In each of these places he took part also in the organization of the Jewish communities. At Tunis, especially the official organization of Judaism by the government of the French protectorate, was his work. There he was founder and principal of several elementary schools.{{Cite web |last=Kazez |first=Daniel |date=2005 |title=Kazez family |url=https://www.benkazez.com/dan/kazez-cazes.html |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051004005514/https://www.benkazez.com/dan/kazez-cazes.html |archive-date=2005-10-04 |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=benkazez.com}}
In 1893 he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, serving as a member of the administrative committee of the colonization fund founded by Baron Maurice de Hirsch under the name of the Jewish Colonization Association.{{Cite book |last=Lehmann |first=Matthias B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaB1EAAAQBAJ |title=The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century |date=2022-08-23 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-1-5036-3228-8 |language=en}}
Career
In 1878, Cazès was appointed an officer of the Order of Nichan Iftikhar of Tunis. The French government in 1886 awarded him academic laurels, and in 1889 the rosette of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.{{Cite book |last=Gottreich |first=Emily Benichou |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45exFa6wDIIC |title=Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa |last2=Schroeter |first2=Daniel J. |date=2011-07-01 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00146-7 |pages=249 |language=en}}
He was the author of many works regarding the Jewish diaspora in Northern Africa, including:
- {{Cite book |last=Cazès |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/essaisurlhistoi00cazgoog |title=Essai sur l'histoire des Israélites de Tunisie : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a l'établissement du protectorat de la France en Tunisie |publisher=Librairie Armand Durlacher |year=1888 |location=Paris |language=fr |trans-title=Essay on the history of the Israelites of Tunisia: from the earliest times to the establishment of the French protectorate in Tunisia |oclc=7711661 |ol=20602266M}}{{Cite book |last=Behar |first=Moshe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4W9AgAAQBAJ |title=Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958 |last2=Benite |first2=Zvi Ben-Dor |date=2013 |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-61168-386-8 |pages=5 |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Cazès |first=David |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1269236d |title=Notes Bibliographiques sur la Littérature Juives-Tunisienne |publisher=Imprimerie Intérnationale |year=1893 |location=Tunis |language=fr |trans-title=Bibliographical Notes on Jewish-Tunisian Literature}}
- {{Cite book |last=Halévy |first=Fabian S. |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/manuscripts/NNL_ALEPH990001265880205171/NLI#$FL28732848 |title=Ḥizayon beʿad yalde bet ha-sefer |last2=Cazès |first2=David |year=1907 |language=he |trans-title=A vision for schoolchildren |oclc=1300226464}}
The latter book was one which gave an exact picture of the literary life of the Jews of Tunis. He also contributed a large number of articles to the Revue des Etudes Juives and other Jewish periodicals.
Sources
- Joseph Tolédano, La Saga des Familles les Juifs du Maroc et Leurs Noms, 1983
References
External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=David Cazès}}
{{JewishEncyclopedia|article=Cazès, David|author=Isidore Singer and M. Franco|url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=286&letter=C&search=David%20Caz%E8s}}
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Category:19th-century Moroccan Jews
Category:Argentine people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Category:Jewish Argentine writers
Category:Jews and Judaism in Tétouan
Category:Moroccan emigrants to Tunisia