Shmuel Trigano
Shmuel Trigano is a sociologist, philosopher, professor emeritus of sociology at Paris Nanterre University. He was Tikvah Fund Visiting Professor in Jewish Law and Thought at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, and Templeton Fellow at the Herzl Institute program "Philosophy of the Tanakh, Midrash and Talmud",. Elia Benamozegh European Chair of Sephardic Studies, Livorno, Italy.
Trigano is Bachelor of Arts, M.A. in Political Science, PhD in Political Sociology at Paris Nanterre University. Received the Accreditation to supervise doctoral research, : "The foundations of a social morphology of judaism".
Trigano developed, in the domain of Jewish thought, history and society of the Jews a method that combines academic knowledge with metaphysics, political philosophy and social sciences. Combining speculative and academic books, he built an original thought, which goes through all these fields. The challenge of Jewish modernity and the actualization of Jewish thought are at the heart of his work.
Trigano Founded and edited two journals
- The Journal of Jewish Studies "Pardes, Revue européenne d'études juives", Ed. du Cerf, In-Press Editions. Co-founded with Annie Kriegel
- The Journal of Political Ideas “Controverses” Ed. De l’Eclat.
- The Alliance Israélite Universelle College of Jewish Studies, : Cultural and intellectual. See programs:
- The Observatoire du monde juif : Institute of Research on Antisemitism and Jewish Affairs, publication of numerous studies and bulletins on the “New antisemitism”.
- The Université populaire du judaïsme
: Cultural and intellectual. More than 2000 inscribed students around the world.
Trigano co-founded and manages Dialogia, an Israeli association to promote the conversation between French Jewish Thought and the Israeli intellectual debate, 2017-
Prizes
- Edmond Tenoudji Prize for Jewish Education, 1993.
- French Jewry Foundation, Francine and Antoine Bernheim Prize, Prize for the Sciences, 2011.
- The Impertinents 2013 Prize of the newspaper Le Figaro, for his book "La Nouvelle idéologie dominante"
Books
- LE RÉCIT DE LA DISPARUE, essai sur l'identité juive ; Gallimard Les Essais 1977, Folio-Gallimard, 2001
- LA NOUVELLE QUESTION JUIVE ; Gallimard Idées 1982, Folio-Gallimard, 2002
- LA RÉPUBLIQUE ET LES JUIFS ; Les Presses d'aujourd'hui 1982
- LA DEMEURE OUBLIEE, genèse religieuse du politique ; Lieu Commun 1984, Tel- Gallimard 1994, Italian translation Alle radici della modernità, ECIG, 1999
- PHILOSOPHIE DE LA LOI, l'origine de la politique dans la Tora ; Le Cerf 1991, English translation by Gila Walker, Philosophy of the Law. The Political in the Torah, Shalem Press,
- UN EXIL SANS RETOUR? lettres à un Juif égaré ; Stock 1996
- LA SEPARATION D’AMOUR, une éthique d’alliance ; Arléa, 1998
- L’IDEAL DEMOCRATIQUE A L’EPREUVE DE LA SHOA; Odile Jacob ed. Paris 1999, translation in English by Gila Walker, The Democratic Ideal, The Unthought in Political Modernity, SUNY Press, 2009. Translation in Hebrew by Avner Lahav, Haideal hademokrati bemivhan hashoah, Ben Gurion Institute, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2009.
- LE MONOTHÉÏSME EST UN HUMANISME ; Odile Jacob ed. 2000
- LE TEMPS DE L’EXIL ; Manuels-Payot, 2001, Rivages poche/Petite Bibliothèque, 2005, translation in Italian, Il tempo dell’esilio, Giuntina, 2010
- QU’EST-CE QUE LA RELIGION? ; Flammarion, 2001
- LA MEMORIA DEL POPOLO SCOMPARSO, Salomone Belforte & Co, 2003
- L’EBRANLEMENT D’ISRAËL. PHILOSOPHIE DE L’HISTOIRE JUIVE ; Le Seuil, 2002, translation in Italian, Il Terremoto di Israele, Giuda Judaica, 2007.
- L’ELU, ENTRE JUIFS ET CHRETIENS ; Denoël, 2003
- LA DEMISSION DE LA REPUBLIQUE, JUIFS ET MUSULMANS EN FRANCE ; P.U.F., 2003
- LES FRONTIÈRES D’AUSCHWITZ. Les ravages du devoir de mémoire,, Hachette-Livre de Poche, 2005, translated in Hebrew by Avner Lahav
- L’AVENIR DES JUIFS DE France, Grasset, 2006
- L’INTENTION D’AMOUR, Désir et sexualité dans Les maîtres de l’âme de R. Abraham Ben David de Posquières,, Éditions de l’éclat, 2007.
- LE JUDAÏSME ET L’ESPRIT DU MONDE,, Grasset, 2011.
- LA NOUVELLE IDEOLOGIE DOMINANTE,, Editions Hermann, 2012.
- LE PEUPLE JUIF, SOCIOLOGIE ET PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUES, François Bourin ed. 2013.
- L'HÉBREU, UNE PHILOSOPHIE,, Hermann-Philosophie, 2014
- QUINZE ANS DE SOLITUDE. JUÏFS DE FRANCE: 2000–2015, Berg International, 2015
- LE NOUVEL ÉTAT JUIF,, Berg International, 2015
Main edited books
- Le second Israël ; Les Temps Modernes, n° 394 bis, Mai 1979
- Penser Auschwitz; Pardès n°9-10, 1989
- La société juive a travers l'histoire ; Fayard, 1992-1993, 4 volumes:
- La fabrique du peuple
- Les liens de l’alliance
- Le passage d’Israël
- Le peuple monde
- L'école de pensée juive de Paris ; Pardès 23, 1997
- Le sionisme face à ses détracteurs ; Editions Raphaël, 2002
- L’exclusion des Juifs des pays arabes ; Pardès 33, 2003
- L’identité des Juifs d’Algérie ; Nadir, 2004
- La Cité biblique, Pardès, 40,2006
- Le monde sépharade, en deux volumes aux Editions du Seuil
- L’Histoire
- La Civilisation
- Noirs et Juifs, mythes et réalités, Pardès
- La civilisation du judaïsme, L’Eclat, 2012.
- La mémoire sépharade ; In Press, 2000
- Voulons-nous encore être humains ? Possibilités et limites d’un nouvel humanisme occidental; Diogene, 2001. (English version: “Do we still want to be Human?
Fields of research
The book « Judaism and the Spirit of the World » opens a building site for a new development of the approach to Judaism. It may be seen as a program of research. It deals with 4 matters : Religion and Theology, Political Sociology and Anthropology, Ethos and Morals, Aura of Judaism in the Monotheistic Religions and Western Modernity.
Editorial boards
Jewish Political Studies, JerusalemGesher, Journal of Jewish Affairs, World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem
Hebraic Political Studies, Rutgers University
Current matters and topics
Elaboration of a Global Theory of JudaismProspective on the Continuous Creativity of Jewish Thought
Epistemology of Jewish Studies
Political philosophy of Judaism
Political sociology of Judaism
Theory of Authority in Judaism
Construction and Morphology of Jewish History, Society, and Civilization
The Ethos of the three Structural trends of Judaism
The Theology of Judaism
Biblical Thought
Development of a New Jewish Hermeneutics
Jewish Modernity
Modernity at large, « Post-Modernity »
Global strategical analysis of the Jewish condition