Jean Daniel Bensaid was a French journalist and author.
10 Facts About Jean Daniel
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Jean Daniel was the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly now known as L'Obs.
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Jean Daniel attended the University of Algiers before the Second World War.
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Jean Daniel was a Jewish humanist in the tradition of the French Left.
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Jean Daniel was a colleague and friend of Albert Camus, a fellow pied-noir.
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In La prison juive: Humeurs et meditations d'un temoin, Jean Daniel argued that prosperous, assimilated Jews in the west live in a self-imposed prison made of up of three invisible walls: the idea of the Chosen People, Holocaust remembrance, and support for Israel.
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In 1947 Jean Daniel co-founded the Caliban magazine, which ran until 1951.
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Jean Daniel covered the Algerian War for L'Express; he was sympathetic to the independence cause and received death threats from the Organisation armee secrete.
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Jean Daniel was interviewing Fidel Castro in Havana as news came through of the assassination of John F Kennedy.
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Jean Daniel co-founded the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964, which had existed since 1950 as L'Observateur politique, economique et litteraire, L'Observateur aujourd'hui and France Observateur.