Esther Benbassa
HISTORIAN
France
Esther Benbassa (France), historian, specializes in the comparative history of minorities and the Jewish people. She is a researcher at the Centre Roland-Mousnier and founded the Centre Alberto-Benveniste for Sephardic studies and sociocultural history of the Jewish people in 2002, over which she now presides. She is also a politician and a senator for the Europe Écologie Les Verts group since 2011.