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Renée Poznanski

Renée Poznanski is a French-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust and of Jewish resistance in France during World War II, who teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

born 1949Research on Jews in Holocaust-era FranceJewish resistance in wartime FranceThe book Being Jewish in France

Born: 26 April 1949, Paris
Occupation: historian, university teacher, docent, lecturer
Education: Paris Institute of Political Studies

Renée Poznanski was born in 1949 in Paris

Renée Poznanski was born in Paris on 26 April 1949.

In 1970 she completed studies at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and Russian studies at the Sorbonne. In 1971 she earned a master's degree in Russian studies at the Sorbonne, with a thesis on Simon Dubnow. In 1979 she received a doctorate in political science in Paris, supervised by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, on three Russian writers and the 1917 revolution.

She immigrated to Israel in 1973 and began working as a lecturer that year. She later turned to the history of modern French Jewry, especially during the Holocaust. She teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, where she became an associate professor in 1995.

Her book Being Jewish in France, published by Yad Vashem in 1999, examines the daily life and conduct of French Jews under German occupation and the Vichy regime. She received the Henri Hertz Prize in 1987 and again in 2009.