The house of fragile things, Jewish art collectors and the fall of France, James McAuley
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The house of fragile things, Jewish art collectors and the fall of France, James McAuley
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-294) and index
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contains biographical information
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The house of fragile things
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1233317912
Responsibility statement
James McAuley
Sub title
Jewish art collectors and the fall of France
Summary
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 collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps. In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt--the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers--McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of "invading" France's cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind--many ultimately donated to the French state--were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them
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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- Jewish art + Private collections -- France
- Art and society -- France -- History
- Jewish property -- France
- Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Jews -- France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Art + Collections privées -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Art + Private collections -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Art donors -- France -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France
- History
- Art + Collectors and collecting -- France -- Biography
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 + Confiscations et contributions -- France
- Art + Private collections -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Art et société -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Art + Collections privées -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Jews -- France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Art + Collectors and collecting -- France
- Jewish families -- France -- Biography
- Jews -- France -- Identity
- Art + Collectionneurs et collections -- France -- Biographies
- Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Juifs -- France -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- World War, 1939-1945 + Confiscations and contributions -- France
- Art + Protection -- France -- History
- Familles juives -- France -- Biographies
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- France
- Juifs -- France -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Art et société -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Material culture -- France -- Congresses
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- Jewish art + Private collections -- France
- Art and society -- France -- History
- Jewish property -- France
- Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Jews -- France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Art + Collections privées -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Art + Private collections -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Art donors -- France -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France
- History
- Art + Collectors and collecting -- France -- Biography
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 + Confiscations et contributions -- France
- Art + Private collections -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Art et société -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Art + Collections privées -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Jews -- France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Art + Collectors and collecting -- France
- Jewish families -- France -- Biography
- Jews -- France -- Identity
- Art + Collectionneurs et collections -- France -- Biographies
- Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Juifs -- France -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- World War, 1939-1945 + Confiscations and contributions -- France
- Art + Protection -- France -- History
- Familles juives -- France -- Biographies
- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- France
- Juifs -- France -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Art et société -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
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