Bidspirit auction | Max Bilen, Jewish journalist &

Max Bilen, Jewish journalist & writer, Large archive: documents, letters, manuscripts, 1940-60’s - Max Bilen, Jewish journalist & writer, Large archive 1940-1960’s: documents, manuscripts, letters from prominent persons including signed letter from Editor G. Schoken, 2 his drawn portraits, newspaper clippings and so on. Max Bilen, born Boton Max on October 16, 1916 in Thessaloniki (Greece) and died in 1995, is a journalist, writer, poet and professor of French literature. After high school in Galatasaray, Max Bilen pursued higher studies in philosophy (Prof. Hans Reichenbach) and French letters (Prof. Erich Auerbach) at the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. He began his literary career as a journalist, translator at the Journal d'Orient in Istanbul (he published an anthology of Turkish poetry (in) in the Journal des Poètes de Bruxelles) and frequented the literary milieu of the former Ottoman capital. He was then director of the Jewish high school in Istanbul (1947-1949) and teacher of French. He was then director of the press office of the Israeli legation in Turkey (1951-1958) and press adviser to the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Turkey (fr). Arrived in Israel in the 1960s, after having been a cultural advisor to the Turkish embassy, he later began an academic career marked by the triple research on the writing of myth in modern literature, the ontology of the poetic. and the Francophonie. He will be professor of Turkish language and literature at the Institute of Oriental Languages (1962) of the University of Tel Aviv then professor of French literature at the universities of Tel Aviv (since 1965) and Haifa (since 1973). He received a doctorate in French literature from the University of Paris X in 1967, and a doctorate in letters (doctor of state) from the same university in 1975.