Michel Abitbol ( he, מיכאל אביטבול; born 14 April 1943 in

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

) is a Moroccan-

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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

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Studies at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. 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 Yad Ben-Zvi is a research institute established t ...

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''

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Jerusalem,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

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