The ancestry
of Marc Bloch (1886-1944)
Bernard LYON-CAEN
publishes a well-documented article about the ancestors of Marc
Bloch (1866 -1944), a famous historian who founded
with his friend Lucien Febvre the Revue
des Annales d’histoire économique et sociale
that stressed “the importance of economic and social phenomena
in the historic development of human societies”. Bloch,
in Société féodale,
published 1939, upturned the traditional vision of the Middle
Ages.
As soon as July 1940, obsessed by the causes and the course
of the two World Wars in which he had participated, he writes
L’étrange défaite,
the strange defeat. The Germans arrest him in Lyon on March
8, 1944 and torture him, before killing him at the age of 57
on July 16, 1944.
The author describes Marc Bloch’s Alsatian genealogy,
over 8 generations for his paternal line, the Bloch and Aron,
and over 9 generations for his maternal line, the Ebstein and
Grombach.
Genealogy
of Lion Acher
Pascal
FAUSTINI presents the genealogy of Lion
Asher, chief-rabbi in Metz (1766-1785), one of the
outstanding Talmudists of his times, according to Jewish Encyclopedia.
He uses a yet unknown document he has unearthed at the Moselle
Archives Départementales: Lion Asher’s probate
inventory. He thus helps us discover Lion Asher’s ancestors,
mostly rabbis of German origin settled in Eastern Europe, belonging
to the families Katzenellenbogen, Wahl and Ulmo-Günzburg.
Among his descendants, Pascal Faustini discovers … Marc
Bloch.
Corfiote
Chonology
Jean-François
RENAUD shows great admiration, which we share,
for his uncle Georges Jessula, one of our former
members, unfortunately passed away in 2004. Renaud writes a
sort of log-book of the Jessula family’s crossings from
Corfu to Marseilles, to the Far-East, from Italy to Corfu etc.
Pictures and family-trees illustrate this sentimental journey.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Our webmaster
Georges GRANER
shares his discovery of a new Italian-Jewish genealogy website.
“Some
surnames declared in the Palatinate in 1808 by Jews of Alsatian
origin”, published by Bernhard
KUKATZKI in “Pfälzisch-Rheinische
Familienkunde” is reproduced by permission.
Bernard
LYON-CAEN reports about a family meeting of
the Godchaux organized in April 2006 by Jacky Martin-Godchaux
in Luxembourg.
