Josy Eisenberg

Born

1933-12-12

Died

2017-12-08

Birthplace

Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Biography

Josy (Yossef) Eisenberg (12 December 1933 – 8 December 2017) was a French television producer and rabbi. A Hasidic Jew of Polish origin (his father Oscar (Ovadia) was a Polish-born rabbi), he produced an animated TV show, À bible ouverte, which has been running on France 2 since the early 1960s. He was also the co-scenarist of the movie The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob and wrote a number of different books including Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals with Adin Steinsaltz and Job ou Dieu dans la tempête with Elie Wiesel. Rabbi Eisenberg died on 8 December 2017 at 83 years old. Source: Article "Josy Eisenberg" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.