Éric Hazan Explained

Éric Hazan
Birth Date:1936 7, df=y
Birth Place:Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Occupation:Author
Editor
Surgeon
Education:Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Éric Hazan (23 July 1936 – 6 June 2024) was a French author and editor.[1] He was the founder of .

Biography

Born in Paris on 23 July 1936,[2] Hazan's mother was a Romanian Jew originally from Palestine,[3] while his father, Fernand Hazan, was a Jew originally from Egypt and the brother of editor and librarian .[4] During World War II, his family took refuge in Marseille. After the war, his father founded the publishing house . Hazan attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and joined communist activists,[5] as well as the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War.[6] He became a cardiovascular surgeon and campaigned for abortion rights in France.[5] In 1975, as a founder of the, he travelled to Lebanon during the civil war to work as a combat doctor.[6] He was a member of the Russel Tribunal on Palestine, which began work on 4 March 2009.[7]

In 1983, Hazan gave up surgery and became director of the family publishing business, Éditions Hazan.[5] However, he left management after the publisher was acquired by Groupe Hachette. In 1998, he founded the publishing house La Fabrique ("The Factory"), where the works published were primarily left-wing and historical or philosophical.[8] He allegedly only published works by his friends according to Libération, which included the authors Norman Finkelstein and Houria Bouteldja.[9] The Coming Insurrection, published, written by The Invisible Committee and published by La Fabrique was denounced by Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie and led to Hazan's testimony in the .[5] He also wrote and translated more than twenty works, including those of Edward Said.

Éric Hazan died in Paris on 6 June 2024, at the age of 87.[10] Jacques Rancière wrote a tribute to him in Liberation, published in English in the New Left Review.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Eveno. Clémentine. Roullé. Lucien. 6 June 2024. Mort d'Éric Hazan, une vie d’insurgé. French. L'Humanité. 6 June 2024.
  2. Web site: Cosnard . Denis . 6 June 2024 . Eric Hazan, écrivain et éditeur d’extrême gauche, fondateur de la maison La Fabrique, est mort . 6 June 2024 . lemonde.fr . . "Né à Neuilly-sur-Seine le 23 juillet 1936, il est élevé à Paris.".
  3. Web site: Eric Hazan. Radio France. French.
  4. News: Vigoureux. Elsa. 24 December 2008. Eric Hazan fait de la résistance. French. Le Nouvel Observateur. 6 June 2024.
  5. News: Cosnard. Denis. 6 June 2024. Eric Hazan, écrivain et éditeur d’extrême gauche, fondateur de la maison La Fabrique, est mort. French. Le Monde. 6 June 2024.
  6. News: 14 June 2007. Mondialisation et environnement. dead. https://archive.today/20130430042500/http://www.politis.fr/Mondialisation-et-environnement,1368.html. 30 April 2013. French. Politis. 6 June 2024.
  7. Web site: Parrains. Russell Tribunal on Palestine. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090311114617/http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.org/pages/Parrains-1041547.html. 11 March 2009.
  8. News: Crom. Nathalie. 25 March 2004. Il y a six ans, Éric Hazan a fondé avec un groupe d'amis les Éditions La Fabrique, où sont publiés des essais historiques ou philosophiques, qui se veulent « ancrés politiquement à gauche de la gauche, mais sans céder à aucun esprit de chapelle, sans être inféodés à aucun groupe ni parti », des essais dont le point commun est de vouloir bousculer « le brouhaha consensuel et cotonneux » auquel, estime l'éditeur, est réduite la vie intellectuelle française. French. La Croix. 6 June 2024.
  9. News: Faure. Sonya. Girard. Quentin. 25 April 2018. Eric Hazan, 20 ans de Fabrique et de pavés. French. Libération. 6 June 2024.
  10. News: 6 June 2024. Éric Hazan, fondateur des éditions La Fabrique, est mort. French. France Info. 6 June 2024.
  11. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/grand-editeur
  12. News: 15 February 2006. Eric Hazan : LQR. French. Là-Bas. 6 June 2024.
  13. News: 28 September 2012. Que peut-on transmettre de la Révolution française ?. French. France Culture. 6 June 2024.
  14. News: 4 May 2021. Paris vu par Eric Hazan : le tumulte des rues. French. Radio France. 6 June 2024.

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