Jean de Menasce

Jean de Menasce ( born December 24, 1902 in Alexandria, Egypt, † 1973) was a French Dominican Egyptian origin. The theologian and orientalist mastered 15 languages ​​including Hebrew and Syriac. He has published numerous books and articles on Judaism, Zionism and Hasidism as well as in the field of Iranian Studies. From 1949 to 1970 he was Director of Research ( " directeur d' études " ) at the École pratique des hautes études ( EPHE ), where you specifically installed its chair for him.

Jean de Menasce had great influence among Catholic intellectuals of France. A close friend of Stanislas Fumet, Charles Du Bos, Jacques Maritain and Maurice Sachs, he played a major role in the development of dialogue between Judaism and Christianity. As Professor of Mission Studies and History of Religion at the University of Freiburg, he was one of the nine participants in the Catholic side of the Seelisberg Conference in 1947.

Life

Jean de Menasces family was part of the Jewish aristocracy in Alexandria. His father, Baron Félix de Menasce, a banker Austria - Hungarian origin, had been brought there by the emperor to the nobility. Jean de Menasce was the cousin of the writer Georges Cattaui.

His studies led Menasce de Paris and at the University of Oxford, where he attended Balliol College, together with Graham Greene. As a translator of works of TS Eliot and Bertrand Russell, he had already acquired reputation when he converted to Catholicism in 1926. In 1930 he entered the Dominican Order and received his education in Saulchoir, the study center of the French province of the Dominicans in Kain, Belgium, before he was ordained a priest in 1935.

Publications

  • Quand Israël Dieu aime: Introduction au hassidisme, foreword by Guy Monnot, Plon, 1931; Cerf, 1992; Cerf, 2007
  • Réflexions sur Zurvan, A locust 's leg, 1962
  • La Porte sur le Jardin, editing by Robert Rochefort, introduction by Charles Journet, Cerf, 1975
  • Situation you sionisme in Chroniques; Collection Roseau d'or # 5, 1928

Bibliography

  • Dominique Avon: Les Frères Prêcheurs en Orient: Les dominicains du Caire ( années 1910 - années 1960). Cerf / Histoire, 2005 excerpts on the Internet
  • Philippe Chenaux: Entre Maurras et Maritain: Une génération Intellectual catholique ( 1920-1930 ). Cerf, 1999
  • Frédéric Gugelot: La Conversion of intellectuels au catholicisme en France, 1885-1935. CNRS Éditions, 1998
  • R. Curiel: En souvenir de Jean de Menasce (1902-1973) in Studia Iranica Chauvigny, 1978, issue 7, No. 2
  • G. Lazard: Jean de Menasce (1902-1973), in Journal asiatique, 1974, edition 262, No. 3-4
  • Jean -Michel Roessli (ed.): Jean de Menasce, 1902-1973. Cantonal and University Library Freiburg, 1998
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