Georges Lévitte
Georges Lévitte · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Cheville ouvrière du Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française et de la collection Aleph
11 mai 1918 — 28 juin 1999
Iekaterinoslav (Empire russe) — mort à Saclay (France)
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Origins and early life
Georges Lévitte was born at Ekaterinoslav, now Dnipro, on 11 May 1918, a French Jew of Russian origin, and died at Saclay on 28 June 1999. He survived the war; his parents and his younger brother did not, having been arrested and deported to Auschwitz by convoy 47 on 11 February 1943.
Work and career
What he did with the remainder of his life was to rebuild, in France, a Jewish intellectual world that had been destroyed. He was the essential figure of the preparatory committee of the Colloques des intellectuels juifs de langue française, the annual gathering out of which came, among much else, the Talmudic readings of Emmanuel Levinas, and he saw the first twenty volumes of their proceedings into print.
Later years
He directed the Aleph collection at the Éditions de Minuit, which put serious Jewish thought into French bookshops, translated Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, and taught Hebrew until his death. He was not a public name and did not try to be; his work was to make it possible for others to be read and heard. His brother was Simon Levitte, founder of the Mouvement de jeunesse sioniste.
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Cheville ouvrière du Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française et de la collection Aleph
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_L%C3%A9vitte
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