Haim Zafrani (Arabic : حاييم زعفراني), 10 June 1922 in Essaouira – 31 March 2004), was a Moroccan-born French scholar and writer.
[1] Zafrani is particularly noted for having collected and preserved much of the music and oral poetry of the Jews of Morocco.
He recorded, and thereby preserved, the melodies of Rabbi David Buzaglo (1903–1975), widely acclaimed as the greatest paytan (author of Jewish liturgical poem) of his time.
His best-known book is 2000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco (translated from French and published in an English edition).
Le Prix Haïm Zafrani is a prize given to creators of works of literary, scientific or artistic merit by the Institut Universitaire Elie Wiesel.