Esther Cohen Dabah (born 1949) is a Mexican writer and academic. [1]
Esther Cohen Dabah (born 1949) is a Mexican writer and academic. [1]
Esther Cohen Dabah was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1949. [1] Her parents were both Jewish immigrants to Mexico: Her father was Moisés Cohen, who immigrated from Turkey, and her mother was Sarah Dabah de Cohen, who came from Syria. [2]
Cohen began her studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she received a master's degree in modern English literature. She subsequently received a PhD from the same institution. [3]
Cohen began teaching at UNAM in 1975. [4] She became a researcher at UNAM's Institute of Philological Research, where she has led the Poetry Center. In 2015, she began overseeing the center's magazine, Acta Poética. [5] [1] In 2019, she was honored as a member of the university's emeritus staff. [6]
In 1982, Cohen traveled to the University of Bologna in Italy, where she studied semiotics under the writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. [3] Her research has frequently dealt with Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, including during the medieval period. [2] [3] She has also published works on the persecution of witches in Renaissance Europe, as well as on historical memory and narrative of the Holocaust. [7] [8] Her work is heavily influenced by the scholars Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Walter Benjamin. [9]
She has published a wide variety of essays and translations in both domestic and international journals. [3] She is a translator of English, French, Italian, and Portuguese, having produced her first work of translation in 1994 for a collection on the Zohar, a foundational Kabbalah text. [1]
Cohen received the National University Prize in 2010 for her work in the humanities. [4] That same year, she also won the Manuel Levinsky Prize from the Mexican Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists. [1]
Since 2011, she has also served as director of the Memory and Tolerance Museum's Education Center. [1]
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