Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|05|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = [[Oran]], Algeria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|08|19|1888|05|16|df=y}}

| death_place = [[Algiers]], Algeria

| children = [[José Aboulker]], [[Colette Aboulker-Muscat]], Marcelle Lasry

'''Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker''' ({{Langx|ar|بيرت بينيشو أبولكير}}l; 16 May 1888, [[Oran]] -– 19 August 1942, [[Algiers]]) was a [[FrenchHistory of the Jews in Algeria|Jewish-Algerian]]n poet and playwright who wrote in French. Her play ''[[Kahina|La Kahena]], reine [[Berbers|berbière]]'' (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".{{sfn|Sartori|Cottenet-Hage|2006|p=264}}

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.{{sfn|Assan|2012|p=156}} Her husband, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor; their son, [[José Aboulker]] was a surgeon and political figure.;{{sfn|Yehezkiel|2003|pp=26, 127, 141}} 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bitton |first1=Michele |title=Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/benichou-aboulker-berthe |website=Jewish Women's Archive |publisher=Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women |access-date=11 December 2021 |date=December 31, 1999}}</ref>

*{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Assan|first=Valérie|title=Les consistoires israélites d'Algérie au XIXe siècle: "L'alliance de la civilisation et de la religion"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ru00BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT156|date=13 June 2012|publisher=Armand Colin|language=French|isbn=978-2-200-28179-3}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Sartori|first1=Eva Martin|last2=Cottenet-Hage|first2=Madeleine|title=Daughters of Sarah: Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJSRAAAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Lynne Rienner Pub|isbn=978-0-8419-1436-0}}

*{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Yehezkiel|first=Aliza|title=The Davidic Families: The Genealogy of Colette Aboulker-Muscat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuU-AQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Aliza Yehezkiel|isbn=978-965-90295-1-8}}

[[Category:20th-century Algerian women writers]]

[[Category:PeopleWriters from Algiers]]