The SHJT

Executive board & board of directors

The executive board

Jérémy Guedj

President

Biography

PhD in history, lecturer (maître de conférences) in contemporary history at the University of Nice and at the IEP, member of the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (CMMC), editor-in-chief of the Cahiers de la Méditerranée

Claude Nataf

Founding President

Biography

Top of his class at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (1967), postgraduate diploma (DEA) in twentieth-century history from the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, vice-president of the Commission française des archives juives, founding president of the Society for the History of the Jews of Tunisia, departmental delegate of the French national education system

Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun

Vice-President

Biography

PhD in Social Sciences (Sorbonne), honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Paris XII), vice-president of the Cercle de généalogie Juive (CGJ), CNRS researcher (Groupe société, religions, laïcité, GSRL). Research on the Jews of Algeria and the Jews of North Africa. Has published numerous books and articles in this field. Currently working on the Archives of Constantine (1795-1929).

Jean-Marcel Nataf

Vice-President

Biography

Lawyer, President of the French Centre for Tunisian Judaism (https://cfjt.fr) (CFJT), specialising in research into and the dissemination of theological works by Tunisian rabbis; member of the FSJU Executive Committee since 2008; member of the SHJT Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020

Guy Attal

Treasurer

Biography

Former Secretary General of the SHJT, outgoing member of the SHJT board of directors, President of the Oratoire tunisien de la Victoire

Hervé Kabla

Secretary General

Biography

Graduate of the École Polytechnique (X – Télécom), digital consultant, designer of a genealogical research software for Tunisian Jewry, member of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive (CGJ), author of the Guide Pratique de Généalogie 2.0.

Nicole Abitan

Deputy Secretary

Biography

Retired secondary school head teacher

The board of directors

Valérie Assan

Board member

Biography

Valérie Assan, PhD in history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, agrégée in classics and member of the GSRL, is a specialist in the history of the Jews in France and the Maghreb in the modern era.

Philippe Boukara

Board member

Biography

Historian specialising in contemporary Judaism, training coordinator at the Mémorial de la Shoah. Formerly a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Nancy II, he currently teaches at the Collège des Bernardins and the Institut européen en sciences des religions (IESR-EPHE).

Nathalie Cohen

Board member

Biography

Agrégée in classics, researcher and writer.

Martino Oppizzi

Board member

Biography

PhD in history, postdoctoral researcher at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP, UMR 8244), member of the Parimix team (Centre Roland Mousnier, UMR 8596), founding member of the ALARMER society. Since 2013 he has been working on the Italian Jewish community of Tunisia.

Étienne Pénard

Board member

Biography

Senior lecturer (maître de conférences) at IFEPSA-UCO, teaching at Bachelor's and Master's levels, academic coordinator of L2 PEPS-PE

Thierry Samama

Board member

Biography

Engineer, École Centrale Paris; MBA, INSEAD. Former member of the board of directors of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive. Creator of the BECANE civil registry database. Co-author of the book « Les protégés israélites du consulat de France à Tunis ».

Gérard Sebag

Board member

Biography

Gérard Sebag, journalist specialising in international politics and the Near and Middle East. Former editor-in-chief at Antenne 2 and former deputy director of Canal France International.