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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)
Last Updated Date : 12/12/2024
