Myriam Yardeni

Myriam Yardeni (Hebrew: מרים ירדני) (born 1932) is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and scholar of French history. She is professor emeritus at the University of Haifa.

Biography

Myriam Yardeni was born in Timişoara, in the Romanian multiethnic region of Banat, to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1950, she immigrated to Israel. She studied Hebrew at Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem and attended a pedagogical seminary founded by Martin Buber. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem she completed a BA in world history and French culture, and an MA in history. Her master's thesis, written in 1961 under the guidance of Jacob Talmon, explored the life and work of Bernard Lazare, a French Jewish anarchist and journalist. In 1963, she wrote her doctorate at the Sorbonne under Roland Mousnier. During her sojourn in Paris, she studied at the Haute Ecole de Sciences Sociales.

At the urging of Haifa's mayor Abba Hushi, Yardeni returned to Haifa and joined the faculty of the University of Haifa. In 1975, she was appointed head of the world history department. She founded the university's institute for research of French history.

Yardeni was a guest professor at CNRS, Bordeaux University, Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux3 University and the Institute for Science of Religion at the Haute Ecole de Hautes Etudes. She retired in 2001.

Awards

Published work

Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Paris-Sorbonne, série "Recherches' t. 59, Paris, Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1971. (The National Conscience in France during the Wars of Religion (1559–1598))

(ed.) Les Juifs dans l'histoire de France. Leiden: Brill, 1980.

(Rethinking history.Aspects of the Protestant historiography from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution

Co-authored books

(Ideology and propaganda)

References

External links

See also