Who's going to apologize for Einstein?
France's Chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim acknowledged that he plagiarized several parts of his latest book.
Bernheim said Tuesday in a statement that parts of the 2011 book
"Forty Jewish Meditations" were taken from other sources. Bernheim said
he used a ghostwriter for the book.
“I have been fooled,” he wrote. “However, I am responsible. I
apologize to the authors whose texts have been copied, to the people who
have read these 'meditations' and to my publisher who was not informed
of the existence of an outsider.”
Bernheim asked for the book to be removed from bookstores and from his bibliography.
The affair started in early March when the Strass de la philosophie
blog revealed that a passage on hasidic exegesis from Bernheim’s work
was almost identical to an interview of the philosopher Jean-Francois
Lyotard that appears in the 1996 book "Questioning Judaism" by Elisabeth
Weber.
Soon after the disclosure, Bernheim said some of the meditations in
his book were transcripts of lessons he gave in the 1980s while he was a
chaplain for French Jewish students. He said the lessons often were
recorded and that copies of his personal notes were distributed to the
listeners, implying that Lyotard, who died in 1998, plagiarized him and
not the opposite.
His version was contradicted by Weber, who interviewed Lyotard and
specified that the philosopher answered her questions without a single
note. In addition, Jean-Noel Darde, a senior lecturer at Paris 8
University, suggested on his website that Bernheim also might have
plagiarized books by other authors such as Elie Wiesel, Jean-Marie
Domenach and Charles Dobzynski.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/04/03/3123406/frances-chief-rabbi-apologizes-for-plagiarism#When:14:34:00Z
Wednesday 3 April 2013
France’s chief rabbi apologizes for plagiarism
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