Finding Aid for the José Benoliel Papers LSC.1625
Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2021.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2021 January 22.
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: José Benoliel papers
Creator:
Benoliel, José, 1888-1937
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1625
Physical Description:
18.5 Linear Feet
(37 boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1937
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Portions of collection unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source and date of receipt unknown.
Bénoliel was born in 1888 in Tangiers, Morocco; he was educated in Paris and taught French and Hebrew in various colleges
in Lisbon from 1881 to 1921; returned to Morocco in 1921, where he was active in the Jewish Community of Tangiers, serving
as president for several years; was a member of various learned academies and institutes of Spain and Portugal; his major
work was the Dialecto judeo-hispano-marroquí o hakitía; published in the Bóletin de la Real Academia Española, vols. XIII,
XIV, XV, and XXXII (1926-52); he also published a French-Portuguese dictionary, seven volumes of original poetry, critical
studies of Luiz de Camões, and numerous translations both from and into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew, including
a translation of part of The Lusiad into Hebrew; he died in 1937 in Tangiers.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4230369
[Identification of item], José Benoliel papers (Collection 1625). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection consists of biographical and bibliographical material, copies of published books and articles of Bénoliel and
Xavier da Cunha, letters, manuscripts of published and unpublished books, notebooks, clippings, press notices, and manuscripts
of other writers. In addition to Spanish, collection materials are also in Portuguese, French, Hebrew, and Arabic.
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