Michel Abitbol

Michel Abitbol (Hebrew: מיכאל אביטבול; born 14 April 1943 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Israeli historian.

Not to be confused with Michel Bitbol.

He is considered an expert on the history of Morocco and the history the Jews of North Africa.[1] In the 80s, he gave courses at Université Paris VIII and Yale University. He is currently professor and chair of the Department of African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2] He is the scientific director of the Center for Research on Moroccan Jewry, founded in Jerusalem in 1994.[3]

He writes his books and monographs in French.

From 1978 until 1981 and from 1987 until 1994 he was the director of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem.[4]

Books
  • Témoins et Acteurs – Les Cor cos et l'histoire du Maroc contemporain, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, (1978)
  • Tombouctou et les Arma, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1979).
  • Tombouctou au milieu du XVIIIème siècle, Union Académique Internationale, Fontes Historiae Africanae, series Arabica VII, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1982), XII+85+18pp.
  • Les Juifs d'Afrique du Nord sous Vichy, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1983), 220pp. Translated to Hebrew (Ben Zvi Institute, 1985) and to English at Wayne State University Press (1989)
  • Les Deux Terres Promises – Les Juifs de France et le Sionisme (1897–1945), Paris, Olivier Orban, (1989)
  • De Crémieux à Pétain – Antisémitisme et Colonialisme en Algérie [in Hebrew],Jerusalem,Shazar Center, (1993)
  • Tujjar al-Sultan – Une élite économique judéo-marocaine au XIXème siècle Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, (1994)
  • Tujjar al-Sultan – Les commerçants du Roi, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1998)
  • Le passé d'une discorde – Juifs et Arabes du VIIème siècle à nos jours, Paris, Editions Perrin, (1999)
  • Reedition: Le passé d'une discorde – Juifs et Arabes depuis le VIIème siècle, Paris, Tempus, (2003)
  • Les Amnésiques – Juifs et Arabes depuis 1967 – Perrin (2005)
  • Histore du Maroc – Perrin (2009)
  • Histoire des Juifs de la Genèse à nos jours, collection Pour l'histoire, Paris, Perrin (2013)
  • Histoire d'Israël, Perrin, 2018, 868 p.

References
  1. "Biographical note at end of Secularization in Mizrahi Jewish Life by Michel Abitbol". JBooks.com. 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. "Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal". Ashgate Publishing. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  3. Abitbol, Michel (Autumn 1998). "Research on Moroccan Jewry". Bulletin du Centre de Recherche, Jérusalem. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  4. "Michel Abitbol" (in French). bibliomonde.com. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.