René-Samuel Sirat

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René-Samuel Sirat
Sirat in 2019
Chief Rabbi of France [fr]
In office
1981–1988
Preceded byJacob Kaplan [fr]
Succeeded byJoseph Sitruk
Personal details
Born(1930-11-13)13 November 1930
Bône, French Algeria
Died10 February 2023(2023-02-10) (aged 92)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityFrench
OccupationRabbi

René-Samuel Sirat (Hebrew: רנה-שמואל סירא; 13 November 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a French rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of France [fr] from 1981 to 1988.[1] He was also a director of the Hebrew studies department at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.

Biography

Early life and family

Born in Bône, French Algeria on 13 November 1930, Sirat was the son of Ichoua Sirat and Oureida Atlan.[citation needed] His two brothers died at a young age; one was killed by a drunk driver on the Champs-Élysées, and another was killed in the Algerian War in 1962.[citation needed] He had three children, Hélène, Gabriel, and Annie, from his first marriage to Colette Salamon, whom he divorced in 1973.[citation needed] He was remarried to Nicole Holzmann in 1978.[citation needed] After his retirement, he moved to Jerusalem.

Career

In 1952, Sirat became a rabbi in Clermont-Ferrand, then Toulouse.[2] He was elected Chief Rabbi of France in 1980, serving his mandate during the term of President François Mitterrand.[3] He did not stand for re-election in 1987.[4] During his time as Chief Rabbi, he served as co-moderator of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. He participated in the first Incontro interreligioso di Assisi [it] in 1986 alongside Pope John Paul II.[5] In 1997, he called for the abolition of the party-list proportional representation system in Israel.[6] In 1999, he co-founded the Fondation pour la recherche et le dialogue interreligieux et inter-culturels in Geneva alongside Joseph Ratzinger and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.[7]

In 2000, Sirat gained the attention of President of the United States Bill Clinton for the foundation of the Faculty of Book Religion at the University of France of Morocco.[8] He was the founding director of the UNESCO committee "Knowledge of the Religion of the Book and Education for Peace".[5] He was founding president of the Institut universitaire européen Rachi de Troyes,[9] which he co-founded alongside Robert Galley, Mayor of Troyes from 1972 to 1995, and to which he donated his Talmudaic library in 2017.[10] He was a supporter of UNESCO's Project Aladdin.[11] He was a member of the Israelite Central Consistory of France and president of the Académie Hillel.[5]

Death

René-Samuel Sirat died in Jerusalem on 10 February 2023, at the age of 92.[12]

Decorations

Publications

  • La joie austère (1990)
  • La tendresse de Dieu (1996)
  • Héritages de Rachi
  • Juifs, chrétiens, musulmans : lectures qui rassemblent, lectures qui séparent (with Olivier de Berranger & Youssef Seddik, 2007)

References

  1. ^ Bevilacqua, Arnaud (10 February 2023). "L'ancien grand rabbin de France René-Samuel Sirat est mort". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Grand Rabbin René-Samuel Sirat, La joie austère, éd Cerf, 1990". Pages feuilletées (in French).
  3. ^ "À PARTIR DU 1er JANVIER 1981 M. René Sirat succédera à M. Jacob Kaplan comme grand rabbin de France". Le Monde (in French). 10 June 1980. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  4. ^ "M. Jo Sitruk est élu grand rabbin de France Un sépharade de choc". Le Monde (in French). 16 June 1987. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  5. ^ a b c Bourdin, Anita (16 March 2018). "Le pape François reçoit le rabbin français René-Samuel Sirat". Zenit News Agency (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Interview René-Samuel Sirat". Le Point (in French). 8 March 1997. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  7. ^ Hoffner, Anne-Bénédicte (11 September 2008). "René-Samuel Sirat : « Benoît XVI est un pionnier du dialogue avec la culture »". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Letter of René-Samuel Sirat to Mr. Bill Clinton" (PDF). Washington Post. 23 November 2000.
  9. ^ "Séance d'ouverture - Allocution du Grand Rabbin Sirat". World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace (in French). 27 December 2007. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  10. ^ Chalautre, Olivier (16 September 2017). "Troyes redevient la ville de Rachi". The Times of Israel (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  11. ^ "Le message du Grand Rabbin René Samuel Sirat, ancien Grand Rabbin de France" (PDF). Project Aladdin (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013.
  12. ^ "Décès de l'ancien Grand Rabbin de France René-Samuel Sirat". The Times of Israel (in French). 10 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Décret du 31 décembre 1998 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance (in French). 1 January 1999.
  14. ^ "René Samuel Sirat honoré". Centre communitaire de Paris (in French). Archived from the original on 28 June 2013.
  15. ^ "Décret du 14 mai 2010 portant élévation aux dignités de grand'croix et de grand officier". Légifrance (in French). 15 May 2010.
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