Shmuel Trigano
Shmuel Trigano is a sociologist and philosopher born in 1948 in Blida, French Algeria. He is professor emeritus of sociology at Paris Nanterre University, where he held the chair “Sociology of Knowledge, Religion and Politics.” He has served as a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York (2009) with the Tikvah Fund, teaching Jewish law and thought. He was a Templeton Fellow at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem (2012–2013, 2015–2017) in the program “Philosophy of the Tanakh, Midrash and Talmud.” Since 2002, he has held the Elia Benamozegh European Chair of Sephardic Studies in Livorno, Italy.
Trgiano studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a BA in Political Science and International Relations; he earned an MA in Political Science from Paris II University in 1977; and he completed a PhD in political sociology at Paris Nanterre University in 1981, with a thesis titled “The religious genesis of the Political Modernity in Judaism.”
Trigano founded two journals: Pardes, Revue européenne d'études juives (The Journal of Jewish Studies), published by Ed. du Cerf and In-Press Editions (began in 1985 and continues today); and Controverses, The Journal of Political Ideas (co-founded with Annie Kriegel), published by Ed. De l'Eclat from 2006 to 2011.
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