Josy Eisenberg

{{Short description|French television producer and rabbi}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|12|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Strasbourg, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|12|08|1933|12|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Houlbec-Cocherel, Normandy, France

| nationality = French

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| occupation = Rabbi, screenwriter

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| awards = Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit, {{lang|fr|Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres}}, {{lang|fr|Prix de l'Amitié judéo-chrétienne de France}}

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Josy (Yossef) Eisenberg (12 December 1933{{cite web|title=Eisenberg, Josy (1933-2017)|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/RechercheEquation;jsessionid=8164B6380E10BEC3EAB8FE2CE60989F6?TexteCollection=HGARSTUVWXYZ1DIECBMJNQLOKP&TexteTypeDoc=DESNFPIBTMCJOV&Equation=IDP%3Dcb119016133&FormatAffichage=0&host=catalogue|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France|accessdate=18 December 2010}} – 8 December 2017) was a French television producer and rabbi. A Hasidic Jew of Polish origin (his father Oscar (Ovadia) was a Polish-born rabbi{{cite web|title=La vie culturelle a l'interieur de la synagoge de la Rue Kageneck (1892-1939)|url=http://www.etzhaim.fr/fichiers_pdf/Synagogue_rue_Kageneck_par_Jean_Daltroff.pdf|accessdate=18 December 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012011719/http://www.etzhaim.fr/fichiers_pdf/Synagogue_rue_Kageneck_par_Jean_Daltroff.pdf|archivedate=12 October 2007}}), he produced an animated TV show, À bible ouverte, which has been running on France 2 since the early 1960s.{{cite web|last=Szerman|first=Nathalie|title=Josy Eisenberg sur le judaïsme orthodoxe et l'avenir d'Israël |url=http://www.desinfos.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=6247|publisher=Des Infos.com|accessdate=18 December 2010}} He was also the co-screenwriter of the movie The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/126736/|title = Home| date=19 March 2010 }} and wrote a number of different books including Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hGuOAAAAMAAJ|title=The Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals|last1=Eisenberg|first1=Josy|last2=Steinsaltz|first2=Adin|date=2000-01-01|publisher=Jason Aronson|isbn=9780765761569|language=en}} with Adin Steinsaltz and Job ou Dieu dans la tempête{{Cite journal|last=Norman|first=Coh'n|title=Eisenberg (Josy) Wiesel (Elie) Job ou Dieu dans la tempête|url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/assr_0335-5985_1987_num_63_2_2432_t1_0245_0000_3|journal=Archives de sciences sociales des religions|year=1987|language=fr-FR|volume=63|issue=2|pages=245–246}} with Elie Wiesel.

Rabbi Eisenberg died on 8 December 2017 at 83 years old.