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André Léon Blum (French: [ɑ̃dʁe leɔ̃ blum]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century.
Apr 5, 2024 · Léon Blum (born April 9, 1872, Paris—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas, France) was the first Socialist (and the first Jewish) premier of France, presiding over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936–37.
May 23, 2018 · The French statesman Léon Blum (1872-1950) was the first Socialist, as well as the first Jewish, premier of France. In 1936 the government he headed enacted the most extensive program of social reforms in French history. Léon Blum was born in Paris on April 9, 1872, into a wealthy family of Alsatian textile merchants.
Léon Blum, (born April 9, 1872, Paris, France—died March 30, 1950, Jouy-en-Josas), French politician and writer. He made a name as a brilliant literary and drama critic, then entered politics in the French Socialist Party. As a member of the Chamber of Deputies (1919–28, 1929–40), he became a leader of the Socialists from 1921.
Aug 13, 2015 · Léon Blum, circa 1894 When Léon Blum became president of the Council of Ministers of France—in effect, prime minister—on June 6, 1936, a world was turned on its head. He was the first socialist ever to occupy that position in France, and the first avowed Jew to head a major modern government anywhere (Benjamin Disraeli had converted at ...
Jun 12, 2015 · By Mitchell Cohen. June 12, 2015. Léon Blum, age 26, imagined Goethe writing a sequel to his renowned “Faust.”. Blum’s protagonist, however, was not Goethe’s famous intellectual, who ...
Oct 24, 2015 · As part of the ‘Jewish Lives’ series of Yale University Press, Pierre Birnbaum has authored this biography of Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist and ‘courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime’.
