Vincent Lemire

Vincent Lemire (born 1973) is a French historian, who directs the French Research Center.

Awards In 2013 Lemire was awarded the Prix Augustin Thierry for his book Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles.

For the English edition of the graphic history The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years, Brian Hillman, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies at Towson University, writes on the Jewish Book Council website that "The History of Jerusalem combines the rigor of academic history with the accessibility of a graphic novel" and praises the way its visual language conveys a complex historical narrative.

Publications The Awakening of Palestinian Hydropolitical Consciousness: The Artas- Jerusalem Water Conflict of 1925, in Jerusalem Quarterly, Vol 48, 2011 online, pdf La Soif de Jérusalem: Essai d'hydrohistoire (1840–1948), Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2011, 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 online, pdf Ouvrir les archives d'une ville fermée?, université Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, 2015, online, pdf Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles, Points, 2016, (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, (French) Révolutions - Quand les peuples font l'histoire, BELIN, 2017, , 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 online, pdf Histoire de Jérusalem, Les Arènes, 2022, (French) Jerusalem: History of a Global City, University of California Press, 2022, with Katell Berthelot, Julien Loiseau, Yann Potin (English) The History of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years, Abrams ComicArts, 2025, (English)