Bracha zefira biography template
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Bracha Zefira was born in Jerusalem in 1910. Her father emmigrated from Yemen in 1887, and settled in the then Yemenite neighborhood of Nahalat Tsvi, in Jerusalem, and married Na’ama Amrani, Bracha Zefira’s mother.
Bracha zefira biography template
Zefira’s mother died while giving birth to her, and her father died from typhus when she was three years old. After the death of her parents, she was brought to live with her uncle in Jerusalem, but fled from his house at the age of five and was placed with a family in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem.
This area of the city was inhabited by immigrants from Bukhara, Tashkent, Samarkand, and Persia. After three years, her adopted family left the city, and Brakha was placed with a widow in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, where most of the residents were Sephardic Jews from Salonika.
As she moved from one neighborhood to the next, Bracha was attracted to the songs she heard.
The synagogue played a central role in the lives of the families she grew up with, and in