Agenda

Madeleine Taradach

Presentation of the Bibliographic Fund, within the activities of the 'European Days of Jewish Culture'

Thursday, September 6,

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

Madeleine Taradach was born in Paris in 1929. Her family, who was Jewish, was murdered in Auschwitz; she grew up in a Catholic family. As an adult she converted to Christianity and began her studies in theology, which led her to Salamanca. In 1953, at the Cité Internationnal Universitaire de Paris, he met who would be her husband, Antoni Plasencia. Antoni was there to study law at the Sorbonne thanks to a scholarship from the Institut Français de Barcelone. In the 90s she reestablished a close relationship with Judaism, a fact that, according to her own writing, "opened her heart".

She gathered a magnificent library of biblical, semitic, linguistic, historical and cultural themes. Her children fulfilled her wish to donate the collection to the Nahmanides Institute for Jewish Studies, where it has been catalogued and will be accessible for public consultation.