Vincent Lemire
{{short description|French historian (born 1973)}}
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Vincent Lemire (born 1973) is a French historian living in Jerusalem, where he directs the French Research Center.
Biography
Vincent Lemire was born in 1973.
In 1998, he obtained the Agrégation for History.
He received his doctorate in 2006 for his work La Soif de Jerusalem (lit. "The Thirst of Jerusalem"), which was published as a book in 2011.
His book Jerusalem 1900, published in 2013, was translated into several languages.
Lemire works as lecturer at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and director of the European Open Jerusalem project, funded by the European Research Council.
Lemire's research topics are the history of the Middle East, in particular Jerusalem and its Moroccan Quarter, and the history of the French slums from the 1930s to the 1970s.
He also deals with the history of photography.
With Katell Berthelot, Julien Loiseau, and Yann Potin, Lemire wrote Jérusalem, Histoire d'une ville-monde, des origines à nos jours (translated as Jerusalem: History of a Global City in English in 2022).
In 2022, Lemire wrote his first graphic novel Histoire de Jérusalem, with illustrations by Christophe Gaultier; in the book, an old olive tree narrates the history of Jerusalem from ancient times to the 21st century. An English version titled The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years was released in 2025 by Abrams ComicArts.{{Cite web|last=Lemire|first=Vincent|date=May 20, 2025|title=The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYX9TKHV|publisher=Abrams ComicArts}} The book, which has been a bestseller since it's release, was criticised by the The Forward as "weaponized history", suffering from factual errors, and having a "antisemitic aroma".{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Roy |date=2025-07-02 |title=This graphic history of Jerusalem is a big hit. But its Jews have hooked noses |url=https://forward.com/culture/books/733867/graphic-novel-history-jerusalem-lemire-antisemitism/ |access-date=2025-07-08 |website=The Forward |language=en}}
Awards
In 2013 Lemire was awarded the Prix Augustin Thierry for his book Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles.
In 2017, Lemire, Berthelot, Loiseau, and Potin received the Prix Pierre Lafue and the Prix Sophie Barluet for their book Jerusalem: History of a Global City.
Publications
- The Awakening of Palestinian Hydropolitical Consciousness: The Artas- Jerusalem Water Conflict of 1925, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 48, 2011 [https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/48_The_Awakening_2_0.pdf online, pdf]
- La Soif de Jérusalem: Essai d’hydrohistoire (1840–1948), Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2011, {{ISBN|978-2859446598}} [https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/801?lang=de download, pdf] (French)
- Publishing Jerusalem's Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892–1917): A Turning Point for the City's Historiography, with Yasemin Avci und Falestin Naili, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 60, 2014 [https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ_60_Publishing_Jerusalem_0.pdf online, pdf]
- Ouvrir les archives d'une ville fermée?, université Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, 2015, [http://www.openjerusalem.org/files/filemanager/uploads/Lemire-AN-13avril2015-OuvrirArchives-Villefermée.pdf online, pdf]
- Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles, Points, 2016, {{ISBN|978-2757862285}} (French), this book has been translated into English, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese
- Jerusalem, histoire d'une ville-monde des origines a nos jours: Histoire d'une ville-monde, des origines à nos jours, Editions Flammarion, 2016, {{ISBN|978-2081389885}} (French)
- Révolutions - Quand les peuples font l'histoire, BELIN, 2017, {{ISBN|978-2410010596}}, with Mathilde Larrère, Félix Chartreux, Maud Chirio, Eugénia Paleraki (French)
- Across the Archives: New Sources on the Ethiopian Christian Community in Jerusalem, 1840–1940, with Stéphane Ancel, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 71, 2017 [https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Pages_from_JQ_71_-_Ancel_%26_Lemire_0.pdf online, pdf]
- Histoire de Jérusalem, Les Arènes, 2022, {{ISBN|979-1037507150}} (French)
- Jerusalem: History of a Global City, University of California Press, 2022, {{ISBN|978-0520299900}} with Katell Berthelot, Julien Loiseau, Yann Potin (English)
- The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years, Abrams ComicArts, 2025, {{ISBN|978-1419777806}} (English)
References
[http://www.crfj.org/vincent-lemire/ Vincent Lemire, Research area, publications] in crfj.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[https://www.metropolitiques.eu/_Lemire-Vincent_.html Vincent Lemire, CV, publications] in crfj.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[http://acp.u-pem.fr/equipe/vincent-lemire/ Vincent Lemire, CV, publications] in acp.u-pem.fr. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[http://www.openjerusalem.org/vincent-lemire Vincent Lemire, Open Jerusalem] in openjerusalem.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[http://rdv-histoire.com/sites/default/files/fichiers/prix_augustin_thierry_2009-2017.pdf Les Rendez-vous de l’histoire, Prix Augustin Thierry, Lauréats 2009/2017] in rdv-histoire.com. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[https://www.fondationpierrelafue.org/evenements/le-prix-pierre-lafue/#prixPL-laureats-ancre le Prix Pierre Lafue] in fondationpierrelafue.org. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
[http://www.institutdiderot.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/BOOKS-Mars-avril-2018.pdf Prix Sophie Barluet] in institutdiderot.fr. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
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