Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski (1930-2017), Polish French scholar
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Joseph (Józef) Mélèze-Modrzejewski (1930-2017) was a Polish French scholar. Born in Poland, began there his academic career. In 1958 he moved to French, where he taught for thirty years (until 1999) the legal and social history of the Hellenistic world at the Faculty of Law of Paris and at the Sorbonne. From 1979 to 2010, he also taught the history of post-Exilic Judaism at the Université libre de Bruxelles, focusing in particular on the History of Jews in Egypt.
Works
Books
- Les Juifs d’Égypte, de Ramsès II à Hadrien (The Jews of Egypt from Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian / 1991 Mélèze-Modrzejewski), book Paris : Éditions Errance, 1991, et Armand Colin, 1992 ; 2e ed., revue et complétée, Paris : PUF, 1997 (Quadrige 247) ;
- The Jews of Egypt from Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian = Les Juifs d’Égypte, de Ramsès II à Hadrien (1995 @1991 Mélèze-Modrzejewski), book (English ed.) Philadelphie et Jérusalem, The Jewish Publication Society, et Edimbourg, T&T Clark, 1995 ; 2e ed., revue, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997.