Josy (Yossef) Eisenberg (12 December 1933 – 8 December 2017) was a French television producer and

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. A

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Jew of Polish origin (his father Oscar (Ovadia) was a Polish-born

), he produced an animated TV show, ''À bible ouverte'', which has been running on

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since the early 1960s. He was also the co-screenwriter of the movie '' The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob''. and wrote a number of different books including ''Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals'' with

Adin Steinsaltz Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (; 11 July 19377 August 2020) was an Israeli Chabad Chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher. His '' Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud'' was originally published in ...

and ''Job ou Dieu dans la tempête'' with

Elie Wiesel Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates#1980, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored Elie Wiesel bibliogra ...

. Rabbi Eisenberg died on 8 December 2017 at 83 years old.

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