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Prof. Yossef Charvit

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Academic Profile Prof. Yossef Charvit (10.10.2024)

 

Prof. Yossef Charvit lectures on the history of Israel in the Department of Israeli History at Bar Ilan University. In Bar Ilan he teaches the history of Israel from the early modern period to the history of contemporary Judaism.

Specializing in the social and intellectual history of Mediterranean Jewry. Specialization in the study of North African Jewry, France and Israel in the 18th-20th centuries - with an emphasis on the Jewish communities of Algeria, Morocco and France and their connection to the Land of Israel and the State of Israel. Specialization in the history of Israeli wisdom in France (19th-20th centuries). Specializing in the social and intellectual history of the history of Israel and the peoples of the Mediterranean basin from the Middle Ages to modern times.

Prof. Charvit specializes in the history of the Wisdom of Israel in France and delved into the history of the Parisian School of Wisdom of Israel. Prof. Yossef Charvit has published a comprehensive historical study of Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi - Manitou: Hebrew and beyond - an intellectual portrait of Rabbi I.L. Ashkenazi-Manitou (Idra, 2019). He is the author of 12 books and dozens of articles dealing with these issues. The most prominent of them, deals with the sages of Algeria and Israel in the nineteenth century - tradition and modernity, which was published in the scientific publication of the Sorbonne (Honoré Champion, Paris):

Yossef Charvit, La France, l’élite rabbinique d’Algérie et la Terre Sainte  au XIXème siècle - Tradition et Modernité, Honoré Champion – Sorbonne Paris IV, Paris, 2005.

In March 2007, Prof. Yossef Charvit was invited to the Sorbonne to give a lecture following the publication of his book; in November 2007, a one-day research conference was held at the Ben Zvi Institute in honor of this book.

Prof. Yossef Charvit began writing a new study that discusses the roots of the Holocaust and the revival and their occurrence in the lands of Christianity and Islam, while comparing the Diaspora of Israel (16th-20th centuries). He has discussed this at six international conferences in the last decade (World Congress of Jewish Studies 2009, Efrat College 2017, World Congress of Jewish Studies 2017, Orot College 2018, Portugal 2019, Ben Gurion University and Ben Zvi Institute, 2020).

Following his lectures on IDF waves (2006), he published his book, Algerian Jews in the French Era, The Broadcasting University (Ministry of Defense, 2009), which summarizes his research in French, English and Hebrew. Dr. Charvit is the recipient of the Aminoah Prize (1999) and the Gaon Prize (2013), for research and creation.

 

Specialization in the study of North African Jewry, France and Israel in the 18th-20th centuries - with an emphasis on the Jewish communities of Algeria, Morocco and France and their connection to the Land of Israel and the State of Israel. Specializing in the social and intellectual history of the history of Israel of the Mediterranean basin from the Middle Ages to modern times. Specializing in the social and intellectual history of Mediterranean Jewry. Specialization in the history of Israeli wisdom in France (19th-20th centuries).

 

Research vision. My future research activities will be routed to several channels:

A. I will continue to develop the communal and oriental internal narrative, alongside the colonial narrative.

B. I will continue to develop the Hebrew historiographical trend in writing the social and intellectual history of the Jews of France and North Africa.

C. I will continue to deal with the history of the portrait of the North African Jewish leadership, rabbinical and secular, on North African soil and throughout the Jewish diaspora.

D. I will continue to uncover archives of a regional nature and master the interrelationships between the periphery and the center, including Arab archives on North African soil.

E. I will hold a historical discussion, in the pendulum of the attitude to Jewish studies, in the various schools of Israeli wisdom: Berlin, Jerusalem and Paris.

F. I will continue with an in-depth discussion about the roots of the Holocaust and the revival and their occurrence in the lands of Christianity and Islam, while comparing the Diaspora of Israel (16th-20th centuries)

 

Research

Academic Fields of Specialization

 

Academic Fields of Specialization – Dr Yossef Charvit

- Social and intellectual history of the Jews of the Mediterranean Basin

- The Jews of North Africa, France and Eretz Israel Jewry in the 18th-20th centuries, with emphasis on Jewish communities in Algeria, Morocco and France and their attachment to Eretz Israel and the State of Israel

- The history of Hokhmat Israel in France (19th-20th centuries).

 

Publications

 

List of Publications Prof. Yossef Charvit (10.10.24)

  1. Books as author:
  1. 2019: Y. Charvit, Les Juifs d’Algérie: Historiographie, Méthodologie, Tradition et Modernité (1750-1914), Editions universitaires européennes, Sarrebruck 2019 (200 pages).

 

  1. 2019: Y. Charvit, Hebraism and Beyond, An Intellectual Portrait of Rabbi Y. L. Askénazi (Manitou), (1922-1996), Idra Press – An Independent Academic Publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tel-Aviv 2019. (320 pages). (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2005: Y. Charvit, La France, l’élite rabbinique d’Algérie et la Terre Sainte  au XIXème siècle –  Tradition et Modernité, Honoré Champion – Sorbonne Université Paris IV, Paris 2005. (461 pages).

 

  1. 2004: Y. Charvit, Charles Netter Youth Movement in Morocco, Ministry of Defense Publisher, Tel- Aviv 2004 (230 pages). (Hebrew) 

 

 

  1. Articles in Periodicals (refereed articles):

1. 2024: Y. Charvit, 'The Sabbatean Syndrome, the Messianic Idea and Zionism', Journal of Jewish Studies, LXXV/1 (Spring 2024), pp. 137-159.

 

2. 2024: Y. Charvit, Jewish Education in Algerian Jewish Communities – Multiple Identities in an Era of Change (1830-1939) Religions, 15/163 (2024), pp. 1-16.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Jewish_Communitie…

 

 

3. 2023: Y. Charvit (2023): Uncompromising Zionism in North Africa, Israel Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/13537121.2023.2206231

 

4. 2020: Y. Charvit, "Diasporas of Israel According to the Philosophy of R. Yéhouda Léon Askénazi (Manitou): An InterDiaspora Encounter at the Orsay Beit Midrash in Paris, 1946-1970", Libi BaMizrach – Sephardic Scholars of the Later Generations, 3 (2020), pp. 364-378. [15 pages] (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2019: Y. Charvit, "l'Etat d'Israël, le miroir de l'Universel Humain selon Manitou", Pardès – Études et culture juives, 63 (2019), pp. 197-202. (6 pages).

 

  1. 2019: Y. Charvit, "The Historic Connection Between the Rabbinic Leaders of Algeria and Eretz Yisrael in the Era of Mutations (1830-1962), Libi BaMizrach – Sephardic Scholars of the Later Generations, 1 (2019) pp. 295-322. [28 pages] (Hebrew)
  2. 2017: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Maurice Eisenbeth: The Pioneer of Sephardi Onomastics" Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas, 17 (2017), pp. 11-25. [15 pages]

 

  1. 2016: Y. Charvit, "To Embrace or to Evade? The Jewish Woman in Algeria Confronts Modernity", Women in Judaism – A Multidisciplinary Journal, 12/2, (2016), pp. 1-29. [29 pages]

 

 

  1. 2016: Y. Charvit, "Hokhmat Israel in France in the Twentieth Century, through the Prism of R. Askénazi: Between Berlin and Jerusalem" Jewish Studies – Forum of the World Union of Jewish Studies, 51 (2016), pp. 131-156. [26 pages] (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2015: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Jacob Meir as a Special Emissary: Keeping the Rabbinic Emissary Legation Alive in Algeria" Pe'amim – A Journal for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 142-143 (2015), pp. 125-142. [18 pages] (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2015: Y. Charvit, "Un nouvel examen du 'Procès public' des Juifs d'Algérie à Jérusalem    (1963), sur fond d'immigration massive en France, face à l'immigration restreinte en Israël (1962)", Pardès - – Études et culture juives, 56 (2015), pp. 285-294. (10 pages)

 

  1. 2014: Y. Charvit, "La première guerre mondiale et le Yishouv. (avec notes sur les Juifs d'Algérie).", Tsafon – Revue d'études juives du Nord, 67 (2014), pp. 125-142. (18 pages)

 

  1. 2012: Y. Charvit, "Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Ayash: A Reconsideration His Term in Office in Jerusalem", Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, 141 (2012), pp. 53-74. (22 pages) [Hebrew]

 

 

  1. 2008: Y. Charvit, “The First Floor of the Beit Hadassah Building in Hebron – 1893: Ties between Algerian Jewry and Hebron”, Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – A Journal of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, 6, (2008), pp. 89-104. (16 pages)     [Hebrew]

 

 

  1. 2007: Y. Charvit, “L’élite rabbinique d’Eretz Israël et celle d’Algérie – Correspondance et consultations”, Revue des études Juives, 166/3-4 (2007), pp. 493-522. (30 pages)

 

 

  1. 2003: Y. Charvit, “French Presence in the Galilee in the Nineteenth Century: The Abbo Family Consular Archive”, Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv, 108, (2003), pp. 75-104. (30 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2002: Y. Charvit, "Jewish Education in Constantine (Algeria) in the Age of Transformations 1837-1939", Asufot - Annual for Jewish Studies, 14 (2002), pp. 315-356. (42 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2002: Y. Charvit, “Le destin de deux Maghrébins au Levant: L’Émir Abd el Kader et le Rabbin Chmouel Abbo”, Perspectives - Revue de l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem, 9 (2002), pp. 158-169. [12 pages] (Hebrew).
  2. 2002: Y. Charvit, “Identity and History – The Cultural Heritage of R. Yehouda Leon Askenazi” Pe'amim – A Journal for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 91 (2002), pp. 105-122. (18 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. Accepted for Publication, Articles in Periodicals (refereed articles):
  1. 2024: Y. Charvit, "Fin de la présence juive en Algérie, 60 ans après – Immigration, Alyah, Identité et Culture. Les Nouvelles Pistes de Recherche" Pardès (in press)

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Chapters in Books:
  1. 2024: Y. Charvit, "Le judaïsme traditionnel algérien face à la modernité française" in Histoire Juive de la France sous la direction du Pr Sylvie Anne Goldberg: Sylvie Anne Goldberg (ed.), Histoire juive de la France (Jewish History of France), Paris, Albin Michel, 2023, pp. 536-537.

 

  1. 2015: Y. Charvit, "The Special Contribution of Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou) to the Parisian School of Jewish Thought" in Erik H. Cohen (ed.), French Jewry: Between Particularism and Universalism in Modern and Contemporary History, Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2015, pp. 211-228. (18 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2013: Y. Charvit, “The Moral Problem in Islam and its Resolution According to the Philosophy of Rabbi Yéhouda Léon Askénazi (Manitou)” in Bernard Dov Cooperman & Zvi Zohar (Eds), Jews and Muslims in the Islamic World, Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture 21, University Press of Maryland, 2013, pp. 145-158. (19 pages).

 

  1. 2012: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou): Conversion, Halacha and Identity", Avinoam Rosenak& Dafna Schreiber (eds), Halakhah: Explicit and Implied Theoretical and Ideological Aspects, Magnes Press, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 2012, pp. 266-282. (17 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2011: Y. Charvit, "French Rabbis in the Jewish Community of Constantine, Algeria: Confluence and Collision", Joseph R. Hacker and Yaron Harel (eds), The Scepter shall not depart from Judah: Leadership, Rabbinate and Community in jewish history. Studies Presented to Professor Simon Schwarzfuchs, The Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 2011, pp. 353-366. (14 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2008: Y. Charvit, “From Monologues to Possible Dialogue, Judaism’s Attitude towards Christianity According to the Philosophy of R. Yéhouda Léon Askénazi (Manitou)”, in: M. Poorthuis, J. Schwartz & J. Turner (eds.), Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature, Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 17, Leiden - Boston, Brill Academic Publishers, 2008, p. 319-336. (18 pages).

 

  1. 2008: Y. Charvit, “Christianity and Islam in the Philosophy of Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou) – Chronicles and ‘the End of the Days’ (Acharit Hayamim)” in Dov Schwartz and Ariel Gross (eds), On Repentance and Redemption, Bar Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 2008, pp. 257-278. (22 pages) (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2005: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Yossef Renassia: A Portrait of a Spiritual Leader in French Algeria" in Moises Orfali & Ephraim Hazan (eds) Progress and Tradition, The Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, 2005, pp. 89-98. (10 pages) [Hebrew]

 

  1. 2003: Y. Charvit, “La tradition rabbinique d’Algérie face au processus d’émancipation”, in: Shmuel Trigano (éd), L’identité des Juifs d’Algérie, une expérience originale de la modernité, Editions du Nadir, Paris, 2003, pp. 95-105. (11 pages)

 

  1. 2024: Y. Charvit, "Le judaïsme traditionnel algérien face à la modernité française" in Histoire Juive de la France sous la direction du Pr Sylvie Anne Goldberg: Sylvie Anne Goldberg (ed.), Histoire juive de la France (Jewish History of France), Paris, Albin Michel, 2023. (in press).

 

 

 

  1. Articles and Chapters in Books - Accepted for Publication

 

 

31. 2024: Y. Charvit, "Marranos from Portugal - models and polar paths: between Dona Gracia Mendes and Uriel da Costa", A collection of articles about Jews of Portugal edited by Prof. M. Orfali and Prof. C. Stuczynski. (in press)

 

  1. Y. Charvit, "On the Question of the Fasting of Destruction after the Independence of Israel - Rabbi Uziel and the Sages of Algeria (1949)", The Jubilee Book in honor of Prof. Zvi Zohar, Bar Ilan University Press. (In Press)
  2. 2024: Y. Charvit, "le Seminaire israélite et l'essor des Sciences du judaïsme en France" in Le Séminaire israélite de France, Etudes, Documents et Souvenirs, Sous la direction de Yehouda Bitty, Les Éditions du Cerf (in press).

 

  1. Reviews of Books in periodicals:

34, 2008: Y. Charvit, Book reviews: “Jewish Identity and Modern Philantropy: Dominique Jarassé, Osiris Mécène Juif nationaliste français, Editions Esthétiques du Divers, 2008”, Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 6 (2010), pp. 147-149. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2006: Y. Charvit, Book reviews: "Comments and insights on Didier Nebot's historical novel (Didier Nebot, La Kahéna, reine d’Ifrikia, Editions Anne Carrière, Paris, 1998), Pe'amim – A Journal for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East,108 (2006), pp. 161-164. (Hebrew)

 

  1. Entries in Encyclopedias:
  1. 2010: Y. Charvit, 26 Articles in Norman Stillman (ed), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (EJIW), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden - Boston 2010: "Solomon Zarqa"; "Renassia Joseph"; "Renassia Daniel"; "Isaac ben Samuel Aboulker II"; "David hacohen Scali"; "Constantine"; "Sa'adya Chouraqui"; "Sidi Fredj Halimi"; "Moses ben Shem Tov Gabbay"; "David Moatti"; "Jacob Morali"; "Mas'ud Zerbib"; "Abraham Zerbib"; "Abraham Yafil"; "Azubib Family"; "L. Y. Askénazi"; "Joseph ben Moses Al-Ashqar"; " 'Ayyash Family"; "Isaac Morali"; "Sidi Bahi 'Allush (Allouche)"; "David Ashkénazi"; "Raphael Yedidia Solomon ben Joshua Seror" etc…

 

 

 

Non-Refereed Publications

Published

 

  1. Books as author:

 

  1. 2014: Y. Charvit, Every Valley Shall Be Raised Up, Rabbi Yossef Renassia's Life, Tsameret Editions, 2014 (90 pages) (Hebrew) 

 

  1. 2010: Y. Charvit, The History of Algerian Jewry during the French Period (1830-1962), Broadcast University, Ministry of Defense, Tel-Aviv 2010, (204 pages). (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2009: Y. Charvit, Meditations in the Field – Conversations with the Philosopher, Educator, Athor, Poet, Playwright and Diplomat Yitzchak Mayer, Rubin Mass Ltd, 2009 (264 pages). (Hebrew)

 

  1. 1997: Y. Charvit, Le Judaïsme Algérien - Réflexions, Editions Eliner, Jérusalem 1997, 2001 (550 pages).

 

  1. 1995: Y. Charvit, Elite Rabbinique d'Algérie et Modernisation, Editions Gaï Yinassé, Jérusalem, 1995 (223 pages).

 

  1. 1995: Y. Charvit, Une Terre à Redécouvrir – Eretz Israël dans la Parachat Hachavoua, Editions Brit Chalom, Jérusalem 1995, 2010 (192 pages).

 

  1. 1982: Y. Charvit, Lève Toi et Promène Toi Sur Cette Terre de Long en Large, Midrechet Hebron, Kiriat Arba 1982 (105 pages).

 

 

  1. Chapters in Books:

Articles in Periodicals (non refereed articles):

  1. 2021: Y. Charvit, "The Return to the Hebrew Land – Rabbi Y. L. Ashkenazi (Manitou), Ophir Toubul (ed), Kol Hator Sephardic Masorti Zionism, Yedioth Aharonot Books and Hemed Books, 2021 pp. 313-326. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2014: Y. Charvit, "Sages of Algeria and the Land of Israel 1750-1914", Moche Halamish, Moche Amar, Maurice Romani (eds), Algerian and Libyan Jews, Bar Ilan University, Dahan Center, 2014, pp. 108-126. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2011: Y. Charvit, "Rabbinical literature" and " Jewish education", Haim Saadoun (ed.), Jewish Communities in the East in 19th-20th centuries – Algeria, Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 2011, pp. 101-116, 139-154. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2010: Y. Charvit, "Colette Aboulker-Muscat – From the Jewish underground in Algeria to Natural medicine in Israel" On Memory Derech Efrata, 13 (2010), pp. 343-352. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2006: Y. Charvit, "Herbert Pagani, an Artist and a Jew in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century", Zion Oukashi, Sigalit Rozmarin, Israel Rosenson (eds), In the Paths of a Jewish Past - Studies and Memories, Efrata College, 2006, pp. 509-516. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 2002: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Haim BeliahThe rabbi of Tlemcen (Algeria) and the sages of Eretz Israel", Zvi Malachi (ed), Mahut A journal of Jewish creation, 2002, pp. 163-174. (Hebrew)

 

 

  1. 2001: Y. Charvit, "Algerian Jewish community and the State of Israel, 1948-1998", Avshalom Mizrahi, Aharon Ben David (eds), The Tribes – Evidence of Israel, Association for Society and Culture, Documentation and Research, 2001, pp. 53-105. (Hebrew)

 

 

  1. 1985: Y. Charvit, "Rabbi Kook and the events of 1929", Sinai 97 (1985), pp. 153-185. (Hebrew)

 

  1. 1985: Y. Charvit, "The history of the new settlement in Hebron" Yishai Aviezer (ed.), Sefer Hagai, Kiriat Arba, 1985, pp. 145-180. (Hebrew)

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated Date : 12/12/2024