Régine Azria (died 2016)

A sociologist of Judaism, Régine Azria (1948-2016) was a researcher at the CNRS, at the Centre d'études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSor, CNRS / EHESS). Deputy editor-in-chief of the Archives de sciences sociales des religions, she taught the sociology of Judaism at the Institut catholique de Paris and at the University of Lausanne. Her work includes Le Judaïsme (La Découverte, "Repères" series) and a study of the Séminaire israélite de France, and she co-edited, with Danièle Hervieu-Léger, the Dictionnaire des faits religieux (PUF, 2010), a major collective work in the field. A recognized organizer of research in the social sciences of religion, she contributed to Plurielles a reflection on contemporary Judaism between identity-based withdrawal and openness, as well as on the relationship between Israel and the diaspora. She died in 2016.