Richard Ayoun (born 23 January 1948 in Algeria, died on 30 May 2008 in Paris, France) was a professor at University of Paris, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Jewish historian and lecturer in Sephardic language and civilization. Works consulted Typologie d’une carrière rabbinique L’exemple de Mahir Charleville, in Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1993, 2 vol., 1004 p. Les Juifs de France de l’émancipation à l’intégration (1787–1812), in L’Harmattan, coll. « Judaïsmes », 1997, 320 p. Un Grand rabbin au XIXe siècle : Mahir Charleville 1814-1888, in Cerf, 1999, 545 p. The Judeo-Spanish people : Itineraries of a community, Paris, in JEAA, March 2003, 82 p. References External links Photo of Prof. Ayoun 1948 births 2008 deaths French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians 20th-century French male writers