Raphaël Glucksmann — mep with roots in the Russian Empire
Raphaël Glucksmann is a French politician, documentary filmmaker, and intellectual who became a Member of the European Parliament for Place Publique/Socialist Party (2019-present) and one of Europe's most prominent voices on Russia, China, and democratic values. He ran in the 2024 French European elections and received a significant vote share.
Tracing the roots — Czernowitz (Ukr)
His father André Glucksmann was a French philosopher of Jewish descent whose own family traced to Czernowitz (then Russian Empire, now Ukraine) — the multilingual, multicultural Austro-Hungarian and Soviet city. This heritage has directly shaped Raphaël's passionate opposition to Putin and his deep engagement with the history of Russian imperialism and Soviet totalitarianism.
Son of philosopher André Glucksmann, whose parents were Austrian/Russian Jews.
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Czernowitz (Ukr). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.