Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker Explained

Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker
Birth Date:16 May 1888
Birth Place:Oran, Algeria
Death Place:Algiers, Algeria
Genre:Poetry,
Drama
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Notableworks:La Kahena, reine berbière
Spouse:Henri Aboulker
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Children:José Aboulker, Colette Aboulker-Muscat, Marcelle Lasry

Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker (l; 16 May 1888 – 19 August 1942) was a Jewish-Algerian poet and playwright who wrote in French. Her play La Kahena, reine berbière (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".

Life

She was the daughter of Adélaïde Azoubib (poet and prose writer) and her second husband, Mardochée Bénichou. She had at least one sibling, a brother, Raymond Benichou. Her husband, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor; their son, José Aboulker was a surgeon and political figure; and their daughter Colette Béatrice Aboulker-Muscat was a renowned Kabbalah teacher who received the Croix de Guerre for her role in the Algerian Resistance and, in 1995, was awarded the prestigious Yakir Yerushalayim award.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bitton . Michele . Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker . Jewish Women's Archive . Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women . 11 December 2021 . December 31, 1999.