Fela Perelman

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Fela Perelman (1909-1991) worked to help Jewish people in Belgium during World War II. [1]

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She was born in Poland and studied history at the Université libre de Bruxelles. [2] She wrote a doctoral thesis on the Belgian Revolution and Poland in 1830 which was published by the Office de Publicité in 1948. [2]

Université libre de Bruxelles French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium

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The Comité de Défense des Juifs was founded in her house in 1942. [2] She ran a center in Belgium for Jewish children, originally a school, where the children were hidden from the Nazis and given to Catholic families. [3] She also helped to establish Belgian refugee houses after World War II, and helped Jewish people going to Palestine through her work as a Mossad operative. [1] She was also important in Alyah Bet. [1] She supported and was on the board of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received an honorary doctorate from them; she was also appointed to the baronage in Belgium in 1983. [1]

The Comité de Défense des Juifs or CDJ was an organization of the Belgian Resistance, affiliated to the Front de l'Indépendance, founded by the Jewish Communist Hertz Jospa and his wife Have Groisman of Solidarité juive in September 1942. It was founded in the house of Fela Perelman.

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She wrote Dans le ventre de la baleine (In the Belly of the Whale), published in 1947. [2] She had also written a first novel that she was taking to Charles Plisnier, but which she lost the manuscript of in May 1940. [2]

Charles Plisnier Belgian writer

Charles Plisnier was a Belgian writer from Wallonia.

She was married to Chaïm Perelman. [2]

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Chaïm Perelman was a Polish-born philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Brussels. He was among the most important argumentation theorists of the twentieth century. His chief work is the Traité de l'argumentation – la nouvelle rhétorique (1958), with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, translated into English as The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver (1969).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Fela and Chaïm Perelman papers".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marriage".
  3. ↑ Alan G. Gross; Ray D. Dearin (2003). Chaim Perelman. SUNY Press. pp. 3–. ISBN   978-0-7914-5559-3.
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