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]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Jewish families > France > Biography.
Art > Collectors and collecting > France > Biography.
Art donors > France > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > France.
Jews > France > Social conditions > 19th century.
Jews > France > Social conditions > 20th century.
Art and society > France > History > 19th century.
Art and society > France > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Confiscations and contributions > France.
Art > Private collections > France.
Jewish art > Private collections > France.
Antisemitism > France > History.
Art > Protection > France > History.
Art and society > France > History.
Art > Collectors and collecting > Biography.
Art > Collections privées > France.
Art juif > Collections privées > France.
Antisémitisme > France > Histoire.
Art > Protection > France > Histoire.
Juifs > France > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Juifs > France > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Art et société > France > Histoire.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Confiscations et contributions > France.
Art > Collectionneurs et collections > Biographies.
Familles juives > France > Biographies.
Art > Collectionneurs et collections > France > Biographies.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > France.
Art et société > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Art et société > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Art and society
Art > Collectors and collecting
Art donors
Confiscations
Jewish families
Jews > Social conditions
France
Biographies
History
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.

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