Mickaël Pariente

In 2006, Mickaël Parienté defended his doctoral thesis: La littérature israélienne traduite en français et publiée entre 1948 et 2005 - Étude bibliographique et socio-littéraire [Israeli literature translated into French and published between 1948 and 2005 - A bibliographic and socio-literary study], which he obtained with the distinction "Très honorable avec félicitations du jury". Within the framework of this thesis, he published two bibliographical works: 2000 titles with a Jewish theme - 1420 authors, prefaced by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, 1996, ed. StavNet, and Littératures d'Israël, 2003, ed. StavNet. It develops a thematic bibliographic search engine listing all Israeli works translated into French from 1948 to 2005. It is currently being updated and put online.

- Salon du livre et de la presse internationale de Genève (Geneva Book Fair - Israel stand guest of honor 1998)

His mother, Séti, belonged to the Amar family, a line of great rabbis and notables of the Jewish community of Meknes. She died at the age of 25, leaving her husband, Jacob Parienté, aged 27, and four children aged from eight years to six months. From his first wife, Myriam Cohen, he has a daughter Stavit and three grandchildren, Maya, Noam and Amitai. In 1990 he married Adriana Masel, born in Buenos Aires, the fourth Argentine generation of Jewish families: Masel and Braunstein, who came from Russia in the 19th century.

He has been living in France since 1988, where he continues his editorial activity and publishes mainly translations of Israeli authors into French. At the same time, he was for more than three years the artistic director of Famille & éducation, a monthly magazine with a circulation of one million copies for UNAPEL, the association of parents of free education students.

In 1980, he founded the Stavit publishing house, where he published literary and ethnographic works in Hebrew and French. He thus became one of the few French-speaking publishers in Israel. At the same time, he pursued a self-taught career in graphic design and became art director of several magazines, including Moznaim, the writers' union, Politica initiated by the Meretz party, Mifagash, a Hebrew-Arabic literary periodical...

In 1979, he founded Hayofi, a beauty and aesthetics magazine, one of the first of its kind, which was published by subscription among beauticians and women's facialists, and distributed to newsstands throughout Israel.

In 1978, he established his own company, Technical Writing and offered services to the electronics industry as well as to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Born on June 6, 1947, in Meknes, Morocco, at the time of the French presence, he lived until the age of fifteen in the old Mellah, the Jewish quarter of his hometown. Trilingual (Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, French) since his early childhood, he babbled his first words in Judeo-Moroccan Arabic; he learned Hebrew at the Talmud Torah by reading psalms and prayers, and did his primary studies in French at the Alliance Israélite Universelle. His novels, stories and articles are published regularly in Israel and France. He is a member of the Tel Aviv journalists' union.