Esther Benbassa

Esther Benbassa (born 27 March 1950) is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She is the author of many books of Jewish studies. She serves as a member of the French Senate, where she represents Val-de-Marne.

Esther Benbassa
Member of the French Senate for Val-de-Marne
Assumed office
1 October 2011
Personal details
Born (1950-03-27) 27 March 1950
Istanbul, Turkey
NationalityFrench
Political partyEurope Ecology - The Greens
Alma materTel Aviv University (B.A)
University Paris-VIII (PhD)
University Paris-III (PhD)
INALCO

Early life

Esther Benbassa was born on 27 March 1950 in Istanbul, Turkey.[1][2] She immigrated to Israel at age 15 and graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1972.[3][4] She moved to France in 1972 and became a French citizen in 1974. She earned two doctorate from the University Paris-VIII and University Paris-III and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3] She holds Turkish, Israeli and French citizenships.[2]

Career

Benbassa is the author of many books about Jewish history. In 2002, she founded the Centre Alberto-Benveniste; she serves as its director.[3]

Benbassa has served as a member of the French Senate since 2011, where she represents Val-de-Marne.[1] In 2011, she supported a bill to let foreign residents in France vote in French elections.[2]

Benbassa is a Knight of the National Order of Merit.[3] She was awarded the Prix Seligmann from the Fondation Seligmann in 2005 and the Prix Guizot from the Académie française for La Souffrance comme identité in 2008.[5]

Works
  • Benbassa, Esther (1990). Un grand rabbin sépharade en politique, 1892-1923. Paris: Presses du CNRS. ISBN 9782876820418. OCLC 21920341.
  • Benbassa, Esther (1993). Une diaspora sépharade en transition. Paris: Editions du Cerf. ISBN 9782204046688. OCLC 29798950.
  • Benbassa, Esther (1997). Histoire des Juifs de France. Paris: Éditions du Seuil. ISBN 9782020295048. OCLC 416080177.
  • Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries with Aron Rodrigue, (University of California Press, 2000)[6]
  • Benbassa, Esther (2004). La république face à ses minorités : les juifs hier, les musulmans aujourd'hui. Paris: Mille et une nuits. ISBN 9782842058319. OCLC 54513001.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2007). La Souffrance comme identité. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 9782213632537. OCLC 393199351.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2009). Être juif après Gaza. Paris: Presses du CNRS. ISBN 9782271068873. OCLC 690373648.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2012). De l'impossibilité de devenir français : nos nouvelles mythologies nationales. Brignon: Les Liens qui libèrent. ISBN 9782918597384. OCLC 801088376.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2012). Égarements d'une cosmopolite. Paris: François Bourin éditeur. ISBN 9782849413531. OCLC 820122522.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2015). Istanbul : la sépharade. Paris: Presses du CNRS. ISBN 9782271083265. OCLC 903119331.
  • Benbassa, Esther (2016). Vendredi noir et nuits blanches : récit. Paris: JCLattès. ISBN 9782709658546. OCLC 968686088.

References
  1. "Mme Esther Benbassa". French Senate. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  2. "Benbassa: "j'ai été une étrangère"". Le Figaro. December 8, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  3. "Directrice du Centre Alberto-Benveniste, directrice d'études à l'EPHE". Centre Alberto-Benveniste. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  4. "English Summary".
  5. "Esther BENBASSA". Académie française. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  6. Rosenstock, Bruce. The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2001, pp. 256–258. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2671469. Accessed 7 Jan. 2020.


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