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Simon Epstein (born in 1947 in
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
) is an Israeli
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Career

Epstein obtained a doctorate degree in political science at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. He moved to
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
in 1974 and worked as an economist for the Israeli Ministry of Finance. Since 1982, his main research areas have been
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and
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Published works

* ''L'Antisémitisme français aujourd'hui et demain'', Belfond, 1984 * ''Cry of Cassandra: the resurgence of European anti-semitism'', National Press, A Zenith, 1985 * ''Les Chemises jaunes : chronique d'une extrême-droite raciste en Israël'',
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Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
,
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Littératures, 1982, series Pluriel, No. 993, 2000 * ''Les Dreyfusards sous l'Occupation'', Albin Michel, series Bibliothèque Albin Michel de l'histoire, 2001 * ''Storia del popolo ebraico'', Seam, 2001 * * ''1930, une année dans l'histoire du peuple juif'', Stock, 2012


References

Israeli economists Israeli historians Israeli essayists Scholars of antisemitism Historians of World War II Political historians Historians of Vichy France Pantheon-Sorbonne University alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1947 births Living people Writers from Paris 20th-century French Jews French emigrants to Israel {{Israel-historian-stub