Historical records matching Renée Bloch
About Renée Bloch
- Renee Bloch, 30, of Paris, was a passenger on El Al Flight 402, which was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters and crashed near Petrich, Bulgaria, killing all passengers and crew aboard. She was coming to Israel to attend the wedding of a relative.
- "Renée Bloch (1924–55), who converted [to Catholicism] when she was seventeen years old, was a brilliant student of theology and Semitic languages in Paris. After meeting [Paul] Démann she wrote for and edited the Cahiers Sioniens, publishing pioneering articles on the history and meaning of the midrash, before her tragic death when El Al Flight 400 was shot down by the Bulgarian air force on July 27,1955." [https://books.google.ca/books?id=M175DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA221]
- "Renée Bloch, a French convert from Judaism who had studied theology at the Institut Catholique, and Semitic languages and biblical exegesis at the Sorbonne and the École des Hautes Études, had been a friend of [Paul] Démann since 1948, and she had already been collaborating with him for some years before Vermes arrived in Paris in 1953. Her work on rabbinic Bible interpretation, and especially on the Aramaic Targums, prefigured much of [Geza] Vermes’ own work in this area in the 1960s and 1970s. Vermes was devastated when she died in July 1955 when the El Al flight she was on, from Paris to Tel Aviv, was shot down over Bulgaria." [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2592/19-Memoirs-09-Ve...]
- See also https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Bloch
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Renée Bloch's Timeline
| 1924 |
June 4, 1924
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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| 1955 |
July 27, 1955
Age 31
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Bulgaria
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