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The house of fragile things : Jewish art collectors and the fall of France /

In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews--pillars of an embattled community--invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country's army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collection...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McAuley, James K. (James Kelly), 1989- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a letter
  • Portraits of a milieu : a Jewish elite in crisis
  • Dreyfus and Drumont : towards a material antisemitism
  • 'Apogee of the Israélite' : Jewish collectors and the First World War
  • Moïse de Camondo : chaos and control
  • Théodore Reinach : Jewish past, French future
  • Béatrice Éphrussi de Rothschild : a woman collects
  • Museums of memory : from private collections to national bequests
  • To the end of the line : Drancy and Auschwitz
  • 'La Petite Irène' : the afterlife of a portrait
  • Conclusion : a death certificate.