Esther Benbassa

Esther Benbassa

Historian and politician · b. 1950

Sephardi · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Istanbul-born historian of the Sephardic Jews, descended from exiles of 1492, who taught at the École pratique des hautes études and served as a French senator.

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