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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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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.