Esther Benbassa

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Esther Benbassa (2011)

Esther Benbassa (born March 27, 1950 in Istanbul ) is a French historian , university professor and politician ( Greens ).

Life

Benbassa comes from a wealthy family of Sephardic Jews in Istanbul. Her mother, with whom she spoke in Ladino , was one of the few survivors of the genocide of the Jews of Thessaloniki committed by the German occupiers in World War II from 1943 onwards . In 1965, Benbassa emigrated from Turkey to Israel at the age of 15. In 1972 she graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in Philosophy and French Literature . In the same year she began to continue her studies at the University of Paris VIII . In 1975 she graduated with a master's degree . In 1978 she received her PhD from the University of Paris VIII.

In 1987 he completed his doctorate at the University of Paris III . 1988–89 post-doctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1989 to 2000 she worked as research director at the renowned Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

In 1996 she was a visiting scholar at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam .

In 2000 she appointed the Sorbonne professor of modern Jewish history, where she taught until September 2011.

In 2002 she founded the Center Alberto Benveniste d'études sépharades et d'histoire socioculturelle des Juifs , which she has also directed ever since. She is also doing research at the Center Roland Mousnier (CNRS University Paris IV ).

On October 1, 2011, she was elected as a senator from the list of the French Green Party, Europe Écologie-Les Verts , in the 2nd Chamber of the French Parliament .

She is the author of numerous works on Jewish history and the comparative history of minorities. Her works have been translated into more than ten languages. Esther Benbassa was involved in the Jewish-Islamic dialogue and on issues of racism and discrimination . Again and again she analyzes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its repercussions on Europe. She has repeatedly spoken out against uncritical support for Israel's politics by Jews in the diaspora and against the tendency she laments to abuse the Holocaust as a religious cult or to instrumentalize it politically in a “war of memories”.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

There are translations of some of Esther Benbassa's books in German:

  • Be a Jew to Gaza . Les Éditions du Crieur Public in collaboration with the tredition publisher, Hamburg 2010
  • The history of the Sephardic Jews. From Toledo to Saloniki . Winkler Verlag, Bochum 2005 (with Aron Rodrigue)
  • Do the Jews have a future? Chronos, Zurich 2002 (with Jean-Christophe Attias)
  • History of the Jews in France . Philo-Verlag, Berlin 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esther Benbassa: "Je suis une juive du monde", in: Villa Voice of November 28, 2014, accessed on January 7, 2015 (French)
  2. ↑ Esther Benbassa: How One Becomes a Traitor (PDF), in: Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (ed.): Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, New-York & London, Routledge, 2010, pp. 232–249 (English )
  3. ↑ Esther Benbassa: À qui sert la guerre des mémoires? (PDF), in: Pascal Banchard et Isabelle Veyrat-Masson (eds.): Les Guerres de mémoires. La France et son histoire , Paris, La Découverte, 2008, pp. 252–261. (French)
  4. ^ Center Alberto Benveniste , accessed June 7, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Benbassa, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul