Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (born 29 September 1937) is a French journalist.

Biography

Elkabbach was born to an

Algerian Jewish The History of the Jews in Algeria refers to the history of the Jewish community of Algeria, which dates to the 1st century CE. In the 15th century, many Spanish Jews fled to the Maghreb, including today's Algeria, following expulsion from Spai ...

family in Oran in 1937, then the prefecture of the ''

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d'Oran'' in French Algeria. He began his journalistic career in 1960 as a radio correspondent in Algiers, but having taken part in the strikes of

May 1968 The following events occurred in May 1968: May 1, 1968 (Wednesday) * CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, was formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. * RAF Strike ...

, he was sidelined and sent to

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. Elkabbach would later spend time in

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, before venturing into television news in 1970. From 1993 to 1996 he served as president of

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and

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, from 1999 to 2009 he was president of the television station

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, and he was at the helm of

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from 2005 to 2008. Elkabbach presents ''Bibliothèque Médicis'' on Public Sénat, during which he interviews an eclectic mix of international literati, political leaders, intellectuals, and historians. He is the father of successful actress

Emmanuelle Bach Emmanuel Bach (born Emanuelle Anouk El Kabbach; 30 May 1968) is a French film and television actress. History She is the daughter of Holda Trenkle ("Holda Fonteyn") and journalist Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. At the age of 19, she abandoned her hi ...

Works

Books

* (with Édouard Balladur) * (with Nicole Avril) *

Television

*''François Mitterrand: conversations avec un président'', documentary filmed between April 1993 and June 1994, broadcast on France 2 in May 2001 in five episodes

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elkabbach, Jean-Pierre 1937 births Living people 20th-century French journalists 21st-century French journalists People from Oran Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur French people of Algerian-Jewish descent French male non-fiction writers French television journalists Sciences Po alumni