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".
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]