Michel Abitbol ( he, מיכאל אביטבול; born 14 April 1943 in
Casablanca,
Morocco
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) is a
Moroccan-
Israeli historian.
He is considered an expert on the history of Morocco and the history the Jews of
North Africa
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. In the 80s, he gave courses at
Université Paris VIII and
Yale University
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. He is currently professor and chair of the Department of
African Studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the scientific director of the Center for Research on Moroccan Jewry, founded in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
in 1994.
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
Yad Ben Zvi ( he, יד יצחק בן-צבי), also known as the Ben-Zvi Institute, is a research institute and publishing house named for Israeli president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in Jerusalem.
History
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in Jerusalem.
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
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, 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''
n HebrewJerusalem,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
External links
Hebrew University Experts Lists
1943 births
Living people
Moroccan emigrants to Israel
20th-century Moroccan Jews
Jewish Israeli writers
Jewish historians
Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
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