Tzarfat
{{Short description|Biblical placename}}
{{redirect|Zarfati|people with the surname|Tzarfati (surname)}}
Tzarfat ({{langx|he|צרפת|Ṣārp̄aṯ}}, {{IPA|he|tsaʁˈfat|label=Israeli pronunciation:}}) is a Biblical placename that may refer to Sarepta in Lebanon. From Medieval Hebrew and into Modern Hebrew, it has come to be identified with France. The modern term evolved from the medieval Zarfat, as seen in Joseph ha-Kohen's Dibre ha-Yamim le-Malke Zarfat we-'Otoman (Chronicles of the Kings of France and the Ottoman Empire).
The epithet tzarfati ({{lang|he|צרפתי}}) was frequently applied in rabbinical literature to Jews of French birth or descent{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Ẓarfati, Ẓarefati ("French")|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15172-zarfati-zarefati|first1=S.|last1=Kahn|first2=Isaac|last2=Broydé|first3=Richard|last3=Gottheil|no-prescript=1}} and it has become a surname variously spelled as Tzarfati, Sarfati, etc.
References
{{Reflist}}
Sources
- {{cite book|title=A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews|author=Falk, A.|date=1996|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=9780838636602|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z10-Xz9Kno4C&pg=PA364|page=364|accessdate=2015-11-09}}
- {{cite book|title=Rashi: Interpreter of the Biblical Letter|author=Banitt, M.|date=1985|publisher=Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MPYAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2015-11-09}}
{{bible-stub}}