Dr. 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 Muslims in France as well as the History of the Jews in France, the Holocaust in France and the Jewish resistance in France. She earned her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University and works as senior research associate at the Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University. She ia also a "Spiegel Fellow" at the Center of Holocaust research at Bar Ilan University. She is a member of the committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust (JRJ).

Publications

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Books

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  • 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) [1]

Contributions

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BESA Research Publications

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  • Israel-France Defense and Security Cooperation in the 21st Century, Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 81, Summary, January 2014, [1]
  • Israel-France Defense and Security Cooperation in the 21st Century, Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 101, July 2013 (Hebrew, 77pp). [http://besacenter.org/mideast-security-and-policy-studies/french-israeli-security-cooperation-in-the-twenty-first-century-hebrew/ שיתוף פעולה בטחוני בין צרפת וישראל במאה עשרים ואחת
  • 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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • 2000 - [French Policy regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict during the second Intifada, 2000–2005] (PDF). Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 68 (in Hebrew). Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University. July 2006. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Articles

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1. The Jewish Resistance in France

  • Tsilla Hershco, Women in the Jewish Resistance in France, in: Judith Tydor Baumel and Alan Schneider (eds), All Our Brothers and Sisters, Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust, Peter Lang, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, April 2020, pp. 155–168. https://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,Contains.997009861400405171%20Women%20in%20the%20Jewish%20Resistance%20in%20France.,AND&tab=default_tab&search_scope=Local&vid=NLI&mode=advanced&offset=0
  • Tsilla Hershco “It is Time to Recognize the Contribution of the Jewish Resistance the Rescue of Jews in France”, BESA Perspectives Paper, No. 1719 August 30, 2020. It Is Time to Recognize the Contribution of the Jewish Resistance in the Rescue of the Jews of France
  • Tsilla Hershco. “The French Jewish Community and the Memory of the Jewish Resistance in France (1940-2006), in: Erik Cohen (ed.), French Jewry Between Particularism and Universalism” in: Modern and Contemporary History, Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, June 2015, pp. 75–94 (Hebrew).
  • Tsilla Hershco, “Zionism in France during the Holocaust and the Creation of Israel: 1940-1948”, in: Alon Gal (ed.), World Regional Zionism, Geo-Cultural Dimensions, Vol III, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History,2010, pp. 93–110 (Hebrew).
  • Tsilla Hershco, « La France, la Shoah et la Création de l'Etat d'Israël », Controverses No. 7, Mai 2008, pp. 117–140. [2]
  • Tsilla Hershco, “The Jewish Resistance in France during WWII: the Gap Between History and Memory”, Jewish Political Studies Review 19:1-2, 2007, pp. 49–57. [3]
  • 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

2. Israel-France - the EU

Press Articles

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https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-Holocaust-heroes-and-heroines-honored-in-Paris-481463

Videos

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References

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  1. ^ ההולכים בחושך יראו אור, הרזיסטנס היהודי בצרפת, שואה ותקומה, 1940-1949 העמותה לחקר כוח המגן על שם ישראל גלילי, צ'ריקובר, 2003
  2. ^ 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
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