Colette Sirat
{{Short description|French writer (born 1934)}}
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Colette Sirat (born in Paris on November 2, 1934) is a French philosopher and paleographer and Director of Studies in medieval Hebrew paleography at the École pratique des hautes études.
Life
She is the daughter of Abraham (Boumi) Salamon and Laura Salamon.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=23}} Boumi Salamon, originally from Czechoslovakia, arrived in Paris in 1924, where he worked as an upholsterer. In 1927, he returned to Czechoslovakia to do his military service, before returning to France for the definitive time.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=24}} Laura Salamon is originally from Transylvania.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=7}} She arrived in Paris at the age of 18, in September 1929.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=15, 21}}
At the age of 17, in December 1951, Colette Salamon married Rabbi René-Samuel Sirat.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=61}}
René-Samuel Sirat and Colette Sirat had three children. She divorced her husband in 1973, when the youngest daughter was 16.{{sfn|Salamon|1999|pp=77}}
= Teaching =
From 1969, she was Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études.{{sfn|Sirat|2002b|pp=1}} She taught as a professor at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1970–1975).
Awards
- Legion of Honour.
- Ordre des Palmes académiques in (1998).
Works
- {{cite book|last=Sirat|first=Colette|title=Ecriture et civilisations|location=Paris|year=1976|isbn=2-222-01944-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Sirat|first=Colette|author-mask=5|title=Les papyrus en caractères hébraïques trouvés en Égypte|location=Paris|year=1985|isbn=2-222-03457-4}}
- {{cite book|last=Sirat|first=Colette|author-mask=5|title=A history of jewish philosophy in the middle ages|location=Cambridge|year=1995|isbn=0-521-39727-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Sirat|first=Colette|author-mask=5|title=Du scribe au livre. Les manuscrits hébreux au Moyen Age|location=Paris|year=2002a|isbn=2-271-05156-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Sirat|first=Colette|author-mask=5|title=Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002b|isbn=9780521770798}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite book|editor-first1=Jacqueline|editor-last1=Hamesse|editor-first2=Olga|editor-last2=Weijers|title=Écriture et réécriture des textes philosophiques médiévaux. Volume d'hommage offert à Colette Sirat |publisher=Turnhout |year=2005 |isbn=2-503-52424-9 }}
- {{cite book|editor-first1=Nicholas|editor-last1=De Lange|editor-first2=Judith|editor-last2=Olszowy-Schlanger|title=Manuscrits hébreux et arabes. Mélanges en l'honneur de Colette Sirat|publisher=Turnhout|year=2014|isbn=978-2-503-55152-4}}
- {{cite book|first=Laura|last=Salamon|title=Souvenirs|location=Paris, Cahors|publisher=France Quercy|year=1999}}
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Category:French palaeographers
Category:French women philosophers
Category:20th-century French philosophers
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Category:Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev