Bernhard Blumenkranz

Bernhard Blumenkranz (born June 12, 1913 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 4, 1989 in Paris ) was a French Judaist and historian .

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When Austria was annexed in 1938, Blumenkranz fled to France to continue his studies there, but when the war broke out in 1939 he was interned as an enemy foreigner in the Gurs camp in southern France . He was able to escape from the camp and ended up in Switzerland , where he was in 1945 at the University of Basel with a theological dissertation on Augustine's sermon to the Jews . Blumenkranz went back to France and received another doctorate with Henri-Irénée Marrou's dissertation Juifs et chrétiens dans le monde occidental . Blumenkranz founded the Commission française des archives juives in 1961 and was editor of the Franco-Judaica series . He became research director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He also taught the history of the Jews at the École pratique des hautes études and was a professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle . Blumenthal was one of the editors of the 1971 Encyclopaedia Judaica . A conference was held in Vienna on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The contributions were published in an anthology in 2016.

Fonts (selection)

Jews and Judaism 1965

• Augustine's Sermon to the Jews: A Contribution to the History of Judeo-Christian Relations in the First Centuries. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1946 (dissertation University of Basel 1945). Reprinted in 1973
• Perfidia . Archivium Latinitatis medii Aevi, Bulletin du Cange , 1952
• Juifs et chrétiens dans le monde occidental, 430-1096. Mouton, Paris 1960
• Bibliography des Juifs de France. École pratique des hautes études, Paris 1961
• Les Auteurs chrétiens latins du Moyen Age sur les juifs et le judaïsme. Mouton, Paris 1963
• Jews and Judaism in Medieval Art. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965
• Le Juif médiéval au regard de l'art chrétien Études augustiniennes, Paris 1966
• (Ed.): Histoire des Juifs en France. Toulouse, 1972
• with Albert Soboul (ed.): Les Juifs et la Révolution française. 1976
• Art et archeologie des Juifs en France médiévale. Toulouse 1980

literature

• Gilbert Dahan : Necrology: Bernhard Blumenkranz (1913-1989). In: Cahiers d'études juives , 1989, pp. 7ff. ISSN 0985-1275
• Philippe Buc , Martha Keil , John Victor Tolan (Eds.): Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe. The historiographical legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz (= Religion and law in medieval Christian and Muslim societies. Vol. 7). Brepols, Turnhout 2016, ISBN 978-2-503-56516-3
• Blumenkranz, Bernhard. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 4, Sp. 1141

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Blumenkranz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Bernhard Blumenkranz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Blumenkranz, Bernhard .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .