Rika Mpenveniste

Rika Benveniste was born in Thessaloniki in 1959. She studied History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her Ph.D. in Medieval History at the Sorbonne (Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne). She has taught at the Department of History of the Ionian University and the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Medieval European History at the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. Her studies on the judicial archives of medieval France, historical anthropology, and the relations between Jews and Christians in the medieval West have been published in Greek and international journals. Her research interests also include Jewish historiography and the history of the Holocaust. In 2015, she was awarded the "State Special Award for an author whose book significantly promotes dialogue on sensitive social issues" for her work "Those Who Survived: Resistance, Deportation, Return. Jews of Thessaloniki in the 1940s," published by Polis.