Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker: Difference between revisions

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

'''Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker''' ({{Langx|ar|بيرت بينيشو أبولكير}}l; 16 May 1888 – 19 August 1942) was a [[History of the Jews in Algeria|Jewish-Algerian]] 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>

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

[[Category:PeopleWriters from Algiers]]

[[Category:WomenAlgerian women dramatists and playwrights]]