
Avraham Khalfon
Avraham ben Refael Khalfon (1741–1819) was a Sephardi Jewish community leader, historian, scholar, and paytan in Tripoli, Libya. He researched an extensive history of the Jews of Tripoli that served as a resource for later historians such as Abraham Hayyim Adadi, Mordechai Ha-Cohen, and Nahum Slouschz, and also composed piyyutim (liturgical poems), and qinnot (elegies).
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Alphabetic Acrostic | Libyan Jewry | Maghrebi Jewry | North African Jewry | פיוטים piyyuṭim | 19th century C.E. | 29 Tevet | 56th century A.M.
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