Paul Sebag

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Paul Sebag ( Arabic بول صباغ; born September 26, 1919 in Tunis ; died September 5, 2004 in Paris ) was a Tunisian - French sociologist , historian and journalist .

Life

Paul Sebag was born in Tunis in 1919 as the fourth and youngest son of a Tunisian-Jewish lawyer. His mother came from the Sephardic community, which had settled in Livorno after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and had established trade relations in Tunis since the early 17th century.

After studying law and philosophy in Paris in the late 1930s, interrupted by World War II and the anti-Jewish laws of the Vichy regime , Sebag returned to Tunisia and took part in underground communist (PCT) actions against supporters of the Vichy regime. He was arrested and tortured and sentenced to life forced labor by a Bizerte court, but only spent ten months in prison. Immediately after the Allied landings in North Africa, on November 8, 1942, he resumed his illegal activities with the PCT.

After the surrender of the Axis powers in the Tunisian campaign in 1943 and the ensuing liberation , Sebag became a journalist and editor of the party newspaper. He then finished his studies and taught literature from 1947 to 1957 at the French school abroad Lycée Carnot in Tunis. At the same time he published several studies on urban sociology , whereupon he received a teaching position at the University of Tunis . When his teaching license was not renewed by the Tunisian authorities in 1977, he moved to Rouen University , where he worked for two years before retiring. Now he has published historical works, especially on the history of Tunis and the history of the Jews in Tunisia .

He had two daughters with his wife Diana, whom he married in late 1943.

In 1994 he was awarded the Tunisian Order of Merit for Culture ( Ordre du Mérite culturel ).

In 2008 a collection of posthumous homages to Sebag was published under the title From Tunis to Paris .

In an unpublished letter to his friend Claude Roy , Paul Sebag defines himself as "Jew ... not practicing, not believing ... French through the registry office ... through the culture ... through the feelings ... Marxist ... communist ... anti-imperialist ... Tunisian patriot ... rooted in his homeland ... ”.

Works (selection)

As a writer

As an employee

  • Paul Sebag, Tawhida Benzina-Ben Cheikh, M. Lahmi, B. Lazar, J. Lévigne, H. Nizard, Jean Poncet, M. Turki: Enquête sur les salariés de la région de Tunis  (= Publications de l'université de Tunis . Mémoires du Center d'études de sciences humaines). Presses universitaires de France , Paris 1956, p. 79.
  • Paul Sebag, Robert Attal: La hara de Tunis  (= Publications de l'Institut des hautes études de Tunis. Mémoires du Center d'études de sciences humaines). Presses universitaires de France , Paris 1959, p. 92.
  • Paul Sebag, Jean Claudian, Mustapha Ben Salem, Hannah Taïeb: Un faubourg de Tunis  (= Publications de l'université de Tunis. Mémoires du Center d'études de sciences humaines). Presses universitaires de France , Paris 1960, p. 90.
  • Claude Roy , Paul Sebag: Tunisie  (= Neuf). Delpire, Paris 1961, p. 160.
  • Paul Sebag: La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan  (= Le génie du lieu). Delpire, Paris 1963, p. 123.
  • Pierre Grandchamp: Études d'histoire tunisienne  (= Publications de l'université de Tunis. Histoire). Presses universitaires de France , Paris 1966, p. 200.
  • Paul Sebag, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Carmel Camilleri: Les préconditions sociales de l'industrialisation dans la région de Tunis  (= Cahiers du CERES. Série sociologique). Center d'études et de recherches économiques et sociales, Tunis 1968, p. 191.
  • Paul Sebag: Toute la Tunisie . Cérès Productions, Tunis 1968, p. 111.
  • Jean-Pierre Allali, Annie Goldmann, Paul Sebag: Les Juifs de Tunisie . Éditions du Scribe, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-86765-011-9 , p. 263.

As editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Sebag: Histoire des Juifs de Tunisie: des origines à nos jours pp. 80–81.
  2. ↑ Claude Nataf (éd.): De Tunis à Paris  (= Bibliothèque des Fondations). Éditions de l'Éclat, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-841-62172-9 , p. 174.
  3. ^ De Tunis à Paris Mélanges à la mémoire de Paul Sebag
personal data
SURNAME Sebag, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES بول صباغ (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian-French sociologist, historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2004
Place of death Paris