Tsilla Hershco

Tsilla Hershco is an Israeli historian and political scientist. She specializes in France-Israel relations, EU-Israel relations, U.S.-France relations, France and the Mideast conflict, Jews and Musin France as well as the History of the Jews in France. She earned her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University and works as alims research associate at the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University.

Publications

Books

• Entre Paris et Jérusalem, La France, le Sionisme et la création de l'Etat d'Israël 1945-1949, éditions Honoré Champion, Bibliothèque d'Etudes juives, 2003 (Preface by Shimon Peres) (French)^[1]
• Those Who Walk in Darkness Will See the Light: The Jewish French Resistance during the Holocaust and the Creation of Israel, 1940-1949, Israel Galili Center, 2003 (Hebrew) ^[2]

Contributions

• Paul Benaim (2008). "Préface". Résurrection d'un Etat ou L'épopée d'Israël racontée au 13-20 ans. Editions Amalthée. ISBN 978-2310001663. 
• Dominique Trimbur; Ran Aaronsohn, eds. (2008). "Les Institutions Françaises à Jérusalem: 1947-1949". De Balfour à Ben Gourion, Les Puissances Européennes et la Palestine. Le Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, Editions CNRS. pp. 407–434. ISBN 978-2271066510. 
• Préface aux Réseaux de la Résistance juive en France, Organisation juive de combat, Résistance/sauvetage France 1940-1945, autrement, 2002, pp. 37–41, 117–121, 171–175, 231–233, 245–250, 375–378, 407–408, 415–416

Research Papers

• צרפת והמשבר בלבנון: קיץ 2006 – קיץ 2008 [France and the crisis in Lebanon : July 2006 – July 2008] (PDF). Mideast Security and Policy Studies (in Hebrew). Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University. July 2009. 
• מדיניות צרפת כלפי הסכסוך הישראלי-פלשתינאי בתקופת האינתיפאדה השנייה 2000 - 2005 [French Policy regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict during the second Intifada, 2000–2005] (PDF). Mideast Security and Policy Studies (in Hebrew). Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University. July 2006. 

Articles

• Besa perspectives papers No. 109 Deja vu? France and the Gaza Flotilla 13 June 2010
• The French diplomacy during the war of Independence : 1947–1949, Yad Israel Galili, Military History Society, Tel Aviv University, Defense Ministry editions, 2008, pp. 344–368 (Hebrew)^[3]
• "Netanyahu and Sarkozy, Personal Chemistry versus Political Disagreements" (PDF). BESA Perspective papers (82). 22 June 2009. 
• with Amos Schupak (19 July 2009). "France, the EU Presidency and Implications for the Middle East Conflict". The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs. 3 (2): 63–73. 
• "Sarkozy's Policy in the Middle East : A break with the past?". Insight Turkey. 11 (2): 75–91. April–June 2009. 
• "Sarkozy in Syria : Discrepancies in French Mideast Policy" (PDF). Besa Perspective papers (48). 10 September 2008. 
• "Sarkozy's presidency" (PDF). Perspective papers (46). 22 June 2008. 
• "La France, la Shoah et la création de l'Etat d'Israël, 1945 - 1949" (PDF). Controverses (7): 117–140. May 2008. 
• "France, the EU and the Middle-East in Sarkozy Era" (PDF). Perspective paper (39). 27 February 2008. 
• "French and the Partition Plan : 1947–1948". Israel Affairs 1743-9086. 14 (3): 486–498. 2008. 
• "The French presidential elections of May 2007 : Implications for French Israeli relations" (PDF). Perspectives papers (29). 13 May 2007. 
• "Les relations franco-israéliennes 2000-2007 : Quel bilan?'" [Franco-Israeli relations 2000–2007: What assessment?] (PDF). Middle-East Review of International Affairs (in French) (1). May 2007. 
• "The Jewish Resistance in France during WWII : the gap between history and Memory". Jewish Political Studies Review. 19 (1–2,): 49–57. 2007. 
• "Le Grand Mufti de Jérusalem en France, Histoire d'une évasion". Controverses (1): 244–273. March 2006. 
• "French perceptions of the Middle-East" (PDF). Besa Perspective (6). 22 May 2005. 

Press Articles

• Nathalie Blau (21 January 2009). "Sarkozy n'est pas devenu sioniste" [Sarkozy hasn't become Zionist]. The Jerusalem Post (in French). Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. 
• Marc Lévy, Résistant et officier de l'armée française de Tsahal 1921-1948, Guysen News International, 30 April 2008
• Il y a 60 ans, la France et la décision de la partition du 29 novembre 1947, Guysen News International, 28 November 2007
• Questions sur le prochain hommage aux justes au panthéon, Tsilla Hershco, Guysen News International, 15 January 2007
• "Sur le fond de divergences persistent avec Sarkozy", interview sur lci.fr, 21 June 2008
• יהודים השתתפו בשחרור [Jews participated in the liberation]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). 26 August 2004. 
• "Are these demons old or new?". Haaretz. 11 June 2004. 

Videos

• "Hésitations françaises sur la reconnaissance de l'Etat d'Israël", conference, May 2008
• "Hizbullah will fight Israel", interview, Israel Broadcasting Authority News, The Jerusalem Post videos
• http://www.akadem.org/sommaire/themes/histoire/3/9/module_8470.php Judaisme du Magreb. T. Hershco Universite de Paris I- Sorbonne-Universite Bar Ilan Paris, June 2010.La memoire de la Shoah et de resistance en Algerie a travers l'histoire de la famille Belz.

References

1. ↑ Translations from the book in Hebrew: בין פאריס לירושלים, צרפת הציונות והקמת מדינת ישראל: 1945-1949 ההוצאה לאור של משרד הביטחון, 2000 - עם הקדמה של שמעון פרס
2. ↑ ההולכים בחושך יראו אור, הרזיסטנס היהודי בצרפת, שואה ותקומה, 1940-1949 העמותה לחקר כוח המגן על שם ישראל גלילי, צ'ריקובר, 2003
3. ↑ מבט צרפתי על מלחמת העצמאות: 1947 - 1949, עלי זית וחרב ח, העמותה לחקר כוח המגן ע"ש ישראל גלילי, העמותה להיסטוריה צבאית, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, ההוצאה לאור של משרד הביטחון, 2008,עמ 368–344

External links

• Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• Bar-Ilan University