Esther Saltiel Ragot

Esther Saltiel Ragot is a doctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH), affiliated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her work focuses on Migration Studies, particularly Jewish migrations from Greece and Turkey to France and Palestine during 1900-1939, integrating 20th Century History, Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean Studies.

Research Interests

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of migratory flows in the Eastern Mediterranean
• Administrative practices in France and Mandatory Palestine
• Professional integration and diasporic practices post-Ottoman Empire
• Gender Studies in interwar Jewish migrations

Publication: A 2022 article in Histoire & Mesure examining interwar Jewish migrations in Paris, with methodological focus on archival challenges. She presented at the 3rd Congress of the Society for Jewish Studies (2024) and the 12th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (2023), emphasizing gender-specific migration trajectories.

Education:

• Master's in History and Social Sciences, EHESS (2021), thesis titled "The migrations of Jewish women from Greece and Turkey to Paris and its suburbs in the interwar period (1917-1939): a quantitative study."
• Bachelor's in History, University of Caen-Normandy and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019)