Ivan Jablonka

Ivan Jablonka is a French historian.
Born in 1973 in Paris, he is professor of Contemporary History at the Université Paris XIII-Nord, editorial director of the collection “La République des idées” (Le Seuil), and one of the editors of the online magazine "La Vie des Idées".
His scholarship encompasses abandoned children, the welfare state, gender violence, masculinity, and new forms of historical writing. He documented the fate of his grandparents, Jewish refugees from Poland in occupied France, in "A History of the Grandparents I Never Had" (Stanford UP, 2016). He was a visiting professor at New York University in 2020.
He received the Prix Médicis in 2016 for "Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes", « an openly feminist book » that tells the story of a young girl murdered at the age of 18,