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.

Josy Eisenberg

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1933 births

2017 deaths

French Orthodox rabbis

French people of Polish-Jewish descent

French Ashkenazi Jews

French animators

French screenwriters

French animated film producers

Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite

20th-century French rabbis

21st-century French rabbis

People from Strasbourg

Burials at Har HaMenuchot

Josy Eisenberg