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Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker

Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker

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Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker (Arabic: بيرت بينيشو أبولكيرl; 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".[1]

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Life

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.[2] Her husband, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor; their son, José Aboulker was a surgeon and political figure;[3] 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.[4]


References

  1. Assan 2012, p. 156.
  2. Yehezkiel 2003, pp. 26, 127, 141.
  3. Bitton, Michele (31 December 1999). "Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker". Jewish Women's Archive. Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Retrieved 11 December 2021.

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