Shmuel Trigano

Shmuel Trigano, born in 1948 in Blida (Algeria) is a sociologist, philosopher, professor emeritus of sociology at Paris Nanterre University (Chair "Sociology of knowledge, religion and politics" ). He was Tikvah Fund Visiting Professor in Jewish Law and Thought at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (2009), and Templeton Fellow at the Herzl Institute (Jerusalem) program "Philosophy of the Tanakh, Midrash and Talmud" (2012-2013), (2015-2017). Elia Benamozegh European Chair of Sephardic Studies, Livorno, Italy (2002).

Trigano is Bachelor of Arts (at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Political Science, International Relations), M.A. in Political Science (Paris II University 1977), PhD in Political Sociology at Paris Nanterre University ("The religious genesis of the Political Modernity in Judaism" - 1981). Received the Accreditation to supervise doctoral research, (Paris X- Nanterre): "The foundations of a social morphology of judaism" (1990).

Trigano developed, in the domain of Jewish thought, history and society of the Jews a method that combines academic knowledge with metaphysics, political philosophy and social sciences. Combining speculative and academic books, he built an original thought, which goes through all these fields. The challenge of Jewish modernity and the actualization of Jewish thought are at the heart of his work.

Trigano Founded and edited two journals

Trigano founded and managed three institutions

Trigano co-founded and manages Dialogia, an Israeli association to promote the conversation between French Jewish Thought and the Israeli intellectual debate , 2017-

Jewish Thought, Philosophy, Jewish History, Social Sciences, Socio-History, Sociology and Anthropology of Politics, Science of Religions.

The book (1056 pages) « Judaism and the Spirit of the World » (2011) opens a building site for a new development of the approach to Judaism. It may be seen as a program of research. It deals with 4 matters : Religion and Theology, Political Sociology and Anthropology, Ethos and Morals, Aura of Judaism in the Monotheistic Religions and Western Modernity.

Jewish Political Studies, Jerusalem

Gesher, Journal of Jewish Affairs, World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem

Hebraic Political Studies, Rutgers University

Elaboration of a Global Theory of Judaism

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