Editorial board
The Plurielles editorial board brings together scholars, writers, journalists, and intellectuals engaged in reflection on secular and humanist Judaism.
Izio Rosenman
Rédacteur en chef
A senior researcher in physics at the CNRS and a psychoanalyst, Izio Rosenman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Plurielles. He practiced psychoanalytic psychodrama at the OSE's CMPP. President of the Association pour un Judaïsme humaniste et laïque (AJHL) and of the Association pour l'enseignement du Judaïsme comme culture (AEJC), he organized the literary encounters Livres des Mondes juifs and Diasporas en dialogue (2008-2016). He translated Yaakov Malkin's La foi athée des Juifs laïques from Hebrew (El-Ouns, 2002) and edited the Panoramiques special issue Juifs laïques. Du religieux vers le culturel (Arléa-Corlet, 2002).
Carole Ksiazenicer-Matheron
An associate professor in comparative literature at Université Paris 3, Carole Ksiazenicer-Matheron has translated several classics of Yiddish literature into French, notably Argile et autres récits by Israel Joshua Singer and La Danse des démons by Esther Kreitman. Her books include Les temps de la fin : Roth, Singer, Boulgakov (Honoré Champion, 2006); Déplier le temps : Israël Joshua Singer. Un écrivain yiddish dans l'histoire (Classiques Garnier, 2012); and Le Sacrifice de la beauté (Éditions Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000).
Martine Leibovici
An associate professor emerita in philosophy at Université Paris-Diderot, Martine Leibovici has published, among other works: Hannah Arendt, une Juive. Expérience, politique et histoire (Desclée de Brouwer, 2008); Autobiographie de transfuges. Karl-Philipp Moritz, Richard Wright, Assia Djebar (Le Manuscrit, 2013); and, with Anne-Marie Roviello, Le pervertissement totalitaire. La banalité du mal selon Hannah Arendt (Kimé, 2017). She recently co-edited, with Aurore Mréjen, a Cahier de l'Herne devoted to Hannah Arendt (2021).
Anny Dayan Rosenman
An associate professor in literature and cinema at the Université Paris-Diderot, Anny Dayan Rosenman works on Jewish writers in the French language. Her books include Le survivant un écrivain du XXe siècle (The Survivor, a Twentieth-Century Writer; with Carine Trevisan, Textuel, 2003); La guerre d'Algérie dans la mémoire et l'imaginaire (The Algerian War in Memory and Imagination; with Lucette Valensi, Bouchène, 2003); Les Alphabets de la Shoah, Survivre, témoigner, écrire (The Alphabets of the Shoah: Surviving, Witnessing, Writing; CNRS Éditions, 2007; Biblis paperback, 2013); and Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin (Piotr Rawicz and the Solitude of the Witness; with Fransisca Louwagie, Kimé, 2013).
Brigitte Stora
A journalist, Brigitte Stora writes radio documentaries and fiction for France Culture and France Inter. Trained as a sociologist, she is the author of the essay Que sont mes amis devenus : les juifs, Charlie puis tous les nôtres (Le Bord de L'eau, 2016), followed by L'antisémitisme, un meurtre intime (Le Bord de L'eau, 2024), drawn from her doctoral thesis defended in 2021 at Université Denis-Diderot-Paris 7.
Jean-Charles Szurek
Senior researcher emeritus at the CNRS, Jean-Charles Szurek specializes in Polish-Jewish relations and the memory of the Shoah in Poland. His publications include La Pologne, les Juifs et le communisme (Michel Houdiard, 2012) and the co-edited volume Les Polonais et la Shoah. Une nouvelle école historique (CNRS éditions, 2019).
Nadine Vasseur
Long a producer at France Culture, Nadine Vasseur is the author of some ten books, among them Simone Veil, vie publique archives privées (Simone Veil: Public Life, Private Archives; Tohu-Bohu, 2019), Je ne lui ai pas dit que j'écrivais ce livre (I Didn't Tell Her I Was Writing This Book; Liana Levi, 2008), and 36 rue du Caire, une histoire de la confection (36 rue du Caire: A History of the Garment Trade; Librairie Petite Égypte, 2019). Since 2014 she has directed the Vino Voce festival in Saint-Émilion.
Philippe Zard
Philippe Zard is professor of comparative literature at the Université Paris-Nanterre, where his research centers on political and religious imagination in European literature. His books include La Fiction de l'Occident. Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Albert Cohen (The Fiction of the West: Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Albert Cohen) (PUF, 1999) and De Shylock à Cinoc. Essai sur les judaïsmes apocryphes (From Shylock to Cinoc: An Essay on Apocryphal Judaisms) (Garnier, 2018). He also edited the critical edition of Albert Cohen's four-novel cycle, Solal et les Solal, for Gallimard (Quarto, 2018).
In memoriam
Simon Wuhl (died 2024)
A sociologist, Simon Wuhl (1940-2024) first worked on unemployment, exclusion and integration policy — Du chômage à l'exclusion ? (Syros, 1991), Insertion : les politiques en crise (PUF, 1996) — before turning his research to the theories of social justice of Rawls, Walzer and Sen, in L'Égalité. Nouveaux débats (PUF, 2002) and Discrimination positive et justice sociale (PUF, 2007). An associate professor at the Université de Marne-la-Vallée and later a lecturer at the CNAM, in the last part of his work he explored his relationship to Jewishness — marked by his father's death at Auschwitz — and contemporary Jewish thought, writing Pour un judaïsme culturel (Le Bord de l'eau, 2013), Modernités juives et laïcités (Le Bord de l'eau, 2015) and Michael Walzer et l'empreinte du judaïsme (Le Bord de l'eau, 2017), of which he was France's foremost specialist. A member of the Plurielles editorial committee, he died in 2024 at the age of 84.
Rolland Doukhan (died 2020)
A poet and novelist born in Constantine in 1928, Rolland Doukhan (1928-2020) grew up in the Jewish quarter of the Charaâ and, from 1947, was one of the Jewish contributors to Alger républicain, alongside Kateb Yacine, Henri Alleg and his friend Malek Haddad, sharing the paper's anticolonial commitment until its demise in the mid-1950s. He settled in France during the War of Independence — where he also practised as a dentist — and published the collection Le Jeune Homme-Silence (1963) and then, with Denoël, the narratives Berechit (1991), Juste un instant d'automne (Just a Moment of Autumn; 1994) and L'arrêt du cœur (The Stopping of the Heart; 1998), a body of work devoted to the memory of the Jews of Constantine and to Judeo-Arab fraternity. A proponent of a secular Jewishness, he served as secretary general of the Association pour un judaïsme humaniste et laïque. He died in 2020 at the age of 92.
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.
Jacques Burko (died 2008)
Born in Warsaw in 1933, Jacques Burko spent a long career as an engineer before turning to translation and publishing. An award-winning translator from Polish and Russian into French — Tuwim, Herbert, Szymborska — he founded a world-poetry imprint at Buchet-Chastel and long ran the journal Diasporiques while serving on the editorial board of Plurielles.