Jean De Menasce
Jean de Menasce, born in Alexandria on 24 December 1902 and died in 1973 , was a Dominican French original Egyptian. Theologian and orientalist , he spoke a dozen languages, including the Hebrew and Syriac. He published various books and articles on Judaism , the Zionism and Hasidism , but also in the field of Iranology , which he was an acknowledged expert. From 1949 to 1970 he was director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes , where a chair was created especially for him.
Jean de Menasce exerted an important influence in the middle of the French Catholic intellectuals. Close friend Stanislas Scent of Charles Du Bos , of Jacques Maritain and Maurice Sachs , he played a major role in the evolution of Jewish-Christian relations , to the point of being one of the nine Catholic participants of the conference Seelisberg in 1947.
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Biography
The family of Jean de Menasce belonged to the aristocracy Jews of Alexandria. His father was Baron Felix de Menasce, a banker of Austro-Hungarian ennobled by the emperor. Jean de Menasce was the cousin of the writer Georges Cattaui.
His studies took place in Paris and the University of Oxford , where he was a classmate of Graham Greene at Balliol College. As a translator of works by TS Eliot and Bertrand Russell , he had already gained some notoriety when he converted to Catholicism in 1926. He entered the Dominican order in 1930 and followed his training Saulchoir of Kain , before being ordained priest in 1935.
Publications
- Structures
- When God loves Israel: Introduction to Hasidism, foreword by Guy Monnot, Plon, 1931, Cerf, 1992; Cerf, 2007
- Reflections on Zurvan , A locust's leg, 1962
- The Door in the Garden, texts collected and presented by Robert Rochefort, introduction by Cardinal Charles Journet , Cerf, 1975
- Articles
- "Status of Zionism," Chronicles, al. "Golden Reed" No. 5, 1928
- Translations
Bibliography
- Structures
- Dominique Avon , The Preachers in the East: The Dominicans of Cairo (1910s - 1960s), Deer / History, 2005 Excerpts Online
- Philippe Chenaux, Entre Maurras and Maritain: A Catholic intellectual generation (1920-1930), Cerf, 1999
- Frederick Gugelot, The Conversion of intellectuals to Catholicism in France, 1885-1935, CNRS Editions, 1998
- Articles
- R. Curiel, "In memory of Jean de Menasce (1902-1973)," Studia Iranica Chauvigny, 1978, vol. 7, No. 2
- G. Lazard, "Jean de Menasce (1902-1973)," Asian Journal , 1974, vol. 262 No. 3-4
- Jean-Michel Roessli (ed.), "Jean de Menasce, 1902-1973", Fribourg (Switzerland), Cantonal and University Library, 1998
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