Names
Birth
5 June 1905 in Kharkov
Period of Activity
She left Poland↗ for Paris↗ in 1927 in order to study Semitic langages with Marcel Cohen ↗ and graduated in 1931. Meanwhile, she studied ethnology with Marcel Mauss↗ and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl↗ . In 1932 she joined Marcel Griaule↗ and the Mission Dakar-Djibouti in Gondar↗ . She was in charge of collecting the manuscripts, as well as supervising the collect of informations. Back in Paris, she entered the Africa departement of the Musée de l'Homme. In 1935, she conducted, together with Denise Paulme↗ , a 8 months field research on the Dogon culture (Mali↗ ). From 1937 to October 1940 she taught Amharic at the Ecole des Langues Orientales.
Death
She died after September 1942 in deportation at Auschwitz.↗
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Names
- Lifchitz Déborah fr
- Lifszyc Deborah pl
Dates
Birth: 5-6-1905
Period of activity: 1927–1942
Death: 1942
Occupation
linguist and social anthropologist
Faith
Judaism
Nationality
Originally Polish, she became a French citizen in 1937.
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Ficquet, É. and L. Prijac 2007. ‘Lifchitz, Déborah’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 567a–568b.
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- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
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