Michel Abitbol (; born 14 April 1943 in

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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

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. In the 80s, he gave courses at Université Paris VIII and

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. He is currently professor and chair of the Department of African Studies at the

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. He is the scientific director of the Center for Research on Moroccan Jewry, founded in

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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

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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'',

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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.

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1943 births Living people Moroccan emigrants to Israel 20th-century Moroccan Jews Jewish Israeli writers Jewish historians Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent {{Israel-historian-stub