Ezra Zion Melamed

Rabbi Ezra Zion Melamed (Hebrew: עזרא ציון מלמד, also ע"צ מלמד, November 22, 1903[1]  March 9, 1994[2]) was an Israeli biblical and Talmudic scholar, and lexicographer of Aramaic language.[1] He was born in Shiraz, Persia in 1903.[3] He won the 1987 Israel Prize for his work in Biblical interpretation and Rabbinical literature.[4] He was the rabbi of the Persian Jewish community in Jerusalem, succeeding his father's position.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 "הרב פרופ' ע"צ מלמד בן תשעים" (PDF). Akadem (אקדם) (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language) (2): 2. January 1994. ISSN 0793-0593. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  2. "פרופ' ע"צ מלמד ז"ל" (PDF). Akadem (in Hebrew) (3): 3. June 1994. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  3. Who's Who Israel. 1968. p. lxxviii. OCLC 1769848.
  4. Safrai, Shmuel (1987). Betsalel, Yitshak, ed. "הרב פרופסור עזרא ציון מלמד" (PDF). Pe'amim (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Mekhon Ben-Tsvi) (31): 154–155. ISSN 0334-4088. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
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