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Michel Abitbol
Native Name:	מיכאל אביטבול
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Date:	14 April 1943
Birth Place:	Casablanca, Morocco
Fields:	History
Workplaces:	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known For:	Expert on the history of Morocco and the history of the Jews of North Africa

Michel Abitbol (Hebrew: מיכאל אביטבול; born 14 April 1943 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Israeli historian.

He is considered an expert on the history of Morocco and the history the Jews of North Africa.^[1] In the 80s, he gave courses at Université Paris VIII and Yale University. He is currently professor and chair of the Department of African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[2] He is the scientific director of the Center for Research on Moroccan Jewry, founded in Jerusalem in 1994.^[3]

From 1978 until 1981 and from 1987 until 1994 he was the director of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem.^[4]

Books

• Témoins et Acteurs – Les Cor cos et l'histoire du Maroc contemporain, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, (1978)
• Tombouctou et les Arma, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1979).
• Tombouctou au milieu du XVIIIème siècle, Union Académique Internationale, Fontes Historiae Africanae, series Arabica VII, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1982), XII+85+18pp.
• Les Juifs d'Afrique du Nord sous Vichy, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1983), 220pp. Translated to Hebrew (Ben Zvi Institute, 1985) and to English at Wayne State University Press (1989)
• Les Deux Terres Promises – Les Juifs de France et le Sionisme (1897–1945), Paris, Olivier Orban, (1989)
• De Crémieux à Pétain – Antisémitisme et Colonialisme en Algérie [in Hebrew],Jerusalem,Shazar Center, (1993)
• Tujjar al-Sultan – Une élite économique judéo-marocaine au XIXème siècle Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, (1994)
• Tujjar al-Sultan – Les commerçants du Roi, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, (1998)
• Le passé d'une discorde – Juifs et Arabes du VIIème siècle à nos jours, Paris, Editions Perrin, (1999)
• Reedition: Le passé d'une discorde – Juifs et Arabes depuis le VIIème siècle, Paris, Tempus, (2003)
• Les Amnésiques – Juifs et Arabes depuis 1967 – Perrin (2005)
• Histore du Maroc – Perrin (2009)
• Histoire des Juifs de la Genèse à nos jours, collection Pour l'histoire, Paris, Perrin (2013)
• Histoire d'Israël, Perrin, 2018, 868 p.

External links

• Hebrew University Experts Lists

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2009 . Biographical note at end of Secularization in Mizrahi Jewish Life by Michel Abitbol . 22 October 2022 . JBooks.com.
2. Web site: Islam in Africa and the Middle East: Studies on Conversion and Renewal . 23 January 2011 . Ashgate Publishing.
3. Web site: Research on Moroccan Jewry . Bulletin du Centre de Recherche, Jérusalem . Autumn 1998 . 23 January 2011 . Abitbol . Michel.
4. Web site: Michel Abitbol . French . 23 January 2011 . bibliomonde.com.