Myriam Yardeni

Myriam Yardeni

Myriam Yardeni (Hebrew: מרים ירדני) (born 27 April 1932 in Timișoara - deceased on 8 May 2015) was an Israeli historian and scholar of French history.[1] She was professor of general history at the University of Haifa.

Biography

Myriam Yardeni was born as Marika Jakobovits in Timişoara, in the Romanian multiethnic region of Banat, to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1950, she immigrated to Israel. She studied Hebrew at Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem and attended a pedagogical seminary founded by Martin Buber. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem she completed a BA in world history and French culture, and an MA in history. Her master's thesis, written in 1961 under the guidance of Jacob Talmon, explored the life and work of Bernard Lazare, a French Jewish anarchist and journalist. In 1963, she wrote her doctorate at the Sorbonne under Roland Mousnier. During her sojourn in Paris, she studied at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

At the urging of Haifa's mayor Abba Hushi, Yardeni returned to Haifa and joined the faculty of the University of Haifa. In 1975, she was appointed head of the world history department. She founded the university's institute for research of French history.

Yardeni's work focused on several research themes - national conscience in France in the early modern period and religious minorities in French context, in particular Huguenots and Jews. She was interested in religious persecution and early modern anti-Semitism. Her extensive and innovative publications positioned her as one of the leading scholars in these fields.

Yardeni was a guest professor at CNRS, Bordeaux University, Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux3 University and the Institute for Science of Religion at the Haute Ecole de Hautes Etudes. She retired in 2001, but continued to actively work on her research projects until her death. During these years Yardeni published several books and numerous articles, as well as participated in various conferences in Israel and abroad.

Awards

Published work

Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Paris-Sorbonne, série "Recherches' t. 59, Paris, Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1971. (The National Conscience in France during the Wars of Religion (1559–1598))

(ed.) Les Juifs dans l'histoire de France. Leiden: Brill, 1980.

(Rethinking history.Aspects of the Protestant historiography from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution

Co-authored books

(Ideology and propaganda)

References

  1. Jouanna, Arlette (12 May 2015). "Hommage à Myriam Yardeni" (in French). Groupe de Recherche en Histoire des Protestantismes,. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  2. "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)".
  3. Myriam Yardeni Emet Prize

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See also

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