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Cixous, Hélène

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Author(s): Aubrey L. Glazer
Hélène Cixous, born in Oran on June 5, 1937, is a French intellectual, academician, feminist, philosopher, and writer. Her father, Georges Cixous, was a Spanish-speaking Sephardi immigrant from northern Morocco who spoke Spanish at home and was a physician in Oran. Her mother, Eve Klein Cixous, was a German-speaking Ashkenazi Jew who left Germany for Algeria in 1933 after Hitler came to power. Much of her mother’s family perished in the concentration camps of Holocaust. Surviving these atrocities influenced Cixous’s early studies of Eng…

Chouraqui, André

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Author(s): Aubrey L. Glazer
A self-proclaimed “man of three worlds” (Algeria, Paris, Jerusalem), Natan André Chouraqui was, in his own eyes, more scribe and linguist than politician or theologian. Yet the profound political and theological influence of his life work remains a clarion call for a return to harmony amidst the three Abrahamic faiths. André (Natan) Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria, on August 11, 1917. The Chouraqui family traced its lineage back to the Balearic Islands, and then to Suraka, Spain, where the name Chouraqui seems to have originated (from Ar. sharq, east). Immersed in Sc…

Derrida, Jacques

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Author(s): Aubrey L. Glazer
Riddled with contradictions and writing as what he called “the last Jew,” the philosopher, author, and cultural critic, Jacques Derridawas driven by a Jewish passion for truth. One of the most frequently quoted thinkers in the humanities over the past forty years, Derrida’s search for truth through writing is what he, and fellow Algerian-born Jewish feminist, Hélène Cixous, call “insepharable” from a textual Jewish identity of belonging-by-not-belonging. Yet it is only from his exilic position as outsider that redemption is once again possible on the inside of…