Josy Eisenberg

Josy Eisenberg

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1933-12-12

  • Day of Death

    2017-12-08 (83 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France

Biography

Josy (Yossef) Eisenberg (12 December 1933 – 8 December 2017) was a French television producer and rabbi. A Hasidic Jew of Polish origin (his father Oscar (Ovadia) was a Polish-born rabbi), he produced an animated TV show, À bible ouverte, which has been running on France 2 since the early 1960s. He was also the co-scenarist of the movie The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob and wrote a number of different books including Seven Lights: On the Major Jewish Festivals with Adin Steinsaltz and Job ou Dieu dans la tempête with Elie Wiesel.

Rabbi Eisenberg died on 8 December 2017 at 83 years old.