- Shmuel Trigano
Shmuel Trigano is a sociologist, philosopher, professor of religious and political sociology at
Paris X - Nanterre and acts as President ofl’Observatoire du monde juif .He has published numerous works including La démission de la République: Juifs et musulmans en France (P.U.F., 2003), Qu’est-ce que la religion? (Flammarion, 2001) and Le monothéisme est un humanisme (Odile Jacob, 2000).
He is the director of the Collège des études juives de l’ Alliance israélite universelle and Director of the College of Jewish Studies of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, he also directs the magazine Pardès. The latter he helped co-found in 1985 with his teacher, Annie Kriegel.
He is the author of numerous books including L’E(xc)lu (Denoël, 2003), La démission de la République: Juifs et musulmans en France (P.U.F., 2003), Qu’est-ce que la religion? (Flammarion, 2001) and Le monothéisme est un humanisme (Odile Jacob, 2000) and he is a specialist in Jewish tradition and
contemporary Judaism . [ [http://www.jcpa.org/cjc/cjc-trigano-06.htm The Future of the Jews in France - An Interview with Shmuel Trigano ] ] His works have been characterized by Paula E. Hyman as, "controversial books that stress the need for Jews to base their ethics and politics on classical Jewish values rather than Western thought and political development."cite book
first=Paula E. | last=Hyman | year=1998
title=The Jews of Modern France
publisher=University of California Press
isbn=0520209257 ]His last published book was: "The Future of the Jews of France" (Grasset).
He is on the editorial board of the journal
Hebraic Political Studies .Bibliography
* cite book
last=Trigano | first=Shmuel | year=1992
title=Philosophie de la loi
publisher=Cerf | isbn=2204044342
* cite book
last=Trigano | first=Shmuel | year=2000
title=Le monothéïsme est un humanisme
publisher=Odile Jacob | isbn=2738108040
* cite book
last=Trigano | first=Shmuel | year=2001
title=Le récit de la disparue
publisher=Gallimard| isbn=2070417417
* cite book
last=Trigano | first=Shmuel | year=2002
title=La nouvelle question juive
publisher=Gallimard | isbn=2070423611References
External links
* [http://shmuel.trigano.free.fr/ personal website]
* Levy, Elias. [http://christianactionforisrael.org/isreport/june02/forgotten.html Jews Expelled from Arab Lands Forgotten] . The Israel Report, June 2002.
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