Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker

Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker (Arabic: بيرت بينيشو أبولكيرl; 16 May 1888 – 19 August 1942) was a Jewish-Algerian poet and playwright who wrote in French.

Her play La Kahena, reine berbière (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".

[1] She was the daughter of Adélaïde Azoubib (poet and prose writer) and her second husband, Mardochée Bénichou.

[2] Her husband, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor; their son, José Aboulker was a surgeon and political figure;[3] and their daughter Colette Béatrice Aboulker-Muscat was a renowned Kabbalah teacher who received the Croix de Guerre for her role in the Algerian Resistance and, in 1995, was awarded the prestigious Yakir Yerushalayim award.

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