Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker (16 May 1888 – 19 August 1942) was a Jewish-Algerian poet and playwright who wrote in French. Her play '' La Kahena, reine berbière'' (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".

Life

She was the daughter of Adélaïde Azoubib (poet and prose writer) and her second husband, Mardochée Bénichou. She had at least one sibling, a brother, Raymond Benichou. Her husband, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor; their son,

José Aboulker José Aboulker (5 March 1920 – 17 November 2009) was a French Algerian Jew and the leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in French Algeria in World War II. He received the U.S. Medal of Freedom, the Croix de Guerre, and was made a Compani ...

was a surgeon and political figure; and their daughter Colette Béatrice Aboulker-Muscat was a renowned

Kabbalah Kabbalah ( he, קַבָּלָה ''Qabbālā'', literally "reception, tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline and Jewish theology, school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ( ''Məqūbbāl'' "rece ...

teacher who received the

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for her role in the Algerian Resistance and, in 1995, was awarded the prestigious Yakir Yerushalayim award.

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''Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker'' Jewish Women's Archive
1888 births 1942 deaths 20th-century Algerian poets Algerian dramatists and playwrights Algerian Jews Algerian women writers Algerian writers People from Oran People from Algiers Algerian writers in French 20th-century women writers Jewish writers Jewish women writers Women dramatists and playwrights Algerian women poets {{Algeria-writer-stub