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ISSAJ – Executive Team & Board Members

ADVANCING AFRICAN JEWISH STUDIES WORLDWIDE

FOUNDING PRESIDENT
Dr Edith Bruder 


 School of Oriental and African Studies  

University of London, England  

National Centre for Scientific Research  

Framespa-umr 5136, Toulouse, France  

UNISA- University of South Africa  

ISGAP- New York 

 edithbruder@gmail.com

Vice-President

Vice-President

Vice-President

  Prof Magdel Le Roux 

Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies

College of Human Sciences

Unisa, South Africa

magdelleroux3@gmail.com   

Vice-President

Vice-President

Vice-President

  Prof Knut Holter 

Professor, Department of Teacher Education, NLA University College, Bergen and Oslo, Norway

Professor II, Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences, VID Specialised University, Stavanger, Norway

Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

knut.holter@nla.no 

BOARD Member

Vice-President

BOARD Member

  Prof Raita Steyn  

Associate Professor: Art Education

Faculty of Education

University of Pretoria, South Africa;

Director of the Institute for Afro Hellenic Studies (IAHS), South Africa

  raita.steyn@up.ac.za 

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD Member

  Prof Emanuela Trevisan Semi  

 Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy 

 tresemi@unive.it 

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

  Prof Shalva Weil   

Senior Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK. GIAN Distinguished Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi

  msshalva@mscc.huji.ac.il   

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

  Dr Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot

  Senior Research Associate 

Department of Sociology of the University of York 

 Research Fellow

 Centre for Religion and Public Life 

Research Associate 

Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcité (CNRS, France) 

   aurelien.mokokogampiot@york.ac.uk 

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

  Ahmadiel Ben Yehuda 

Minister of Information and National Spokesman of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
Founding curator of the African/Edenic Heritage Museum 

 ahmadiel7@yahoo.com 


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