![]() ![]() Most of these children performed with the Circus Blumenfeld, and many started their own circuses. Maurice/Moritz Blumenfeld and his wife had nine children: Moritz, Meyer, Emanuel, Sophia, Nathan, Leopold, Herman, Mina, David, and Simon. Many circuses created their own dialects the Blumenfelds created Blumenfeldsprache, a mixture of French, Yiddish, Romance (Gypsy dialect), and technical circus jargon, reflecting their ethnic and religious background (). When he married a Blumenfeld daughter in Beuel (near Bonn), Germany, he applied for (and was granted) official permission by the city to take her last name ( Name Adoption Lists).* Beginning in 1811, the family went on tour as “Circus Blumenfeld” with four horses, two bears, and a mix of performers, and quickly became the foremost of the Jewish circuses (). He was from a French-Alsatian family and owned a menagerie featuring birds and apes. The founder of the official CIRCUS BLUMENFELD was Maurice Levi Cerf (1783-1867), who also went by Moritz Hirsch Levy. In the 18th century, the family Blumenfeld formed a gymnastics troupe (). As early as the 17th century, the family performed as travelling actors - their names are found in Frankfurt and Leipzig city chronicles as acrobats and tightrope dancers. The Blumenfeld family is of Jewish/German descent, originally from the Rhineland, Germany. Blumenfeld Wwe, Guhrau, 1911, at the ĭirectors: Moritz Levi Cerf Blumenfeld, Emanuel Blumenfeld, Jeanette Stein Blumenfeld, Adolf Blumenfeld, Hermann Blumenfeld, Simon Blumenfeld, Arthur Blumenfeld ![]()
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