Creator Bio
André Chouraqui
1917–2007
André Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria, to a prominent Sephardic family of jurists and rabbis. He studied law and rabbinics in France, although his education was cut short by World War II. While living in Vichy France in the 1940s, he took part in the French Resistance. In the 1950s, on behalf of the Alliance Israélite, Chouraqui was a major proponent of Francophone Jewish culture in Israel and advised David Ben-Gurion on the integration of Jews from Arab countries into Israel. In addition to his advocacy, Chouraqui wrote widely on spiritual and political problems in Israel.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Between East and West: A History of the Jews of North Africa
The French presence in North Africa completely disrupted the pattern of coexistence between the Jewish and Moslem communities that had existed for over a thousand years…
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Letter to an Arab Friend
The year was 1933: one automobile picked us up to take us both from Jerusalem to Haifa over the road which passes through Nablus. The boat which brought us to Marseilles allowed us to discover for the…
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Dawns
I am only this song that you place on my lips.
I am yours: yours my arms, yours my legs,
Yours my hands, yours my belly, my loins,
Yours my breasts, yours my teeth, yours my lips,
Yours my tongue…