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McAuley, James K. (James Kelly), 1989-
Subjects
Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Jewish families -- France -- Biography.
Art donors -- France -- Biography.
Art -- Private collections -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- Private collections -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Antisemitism -- France -- History.
Jewish art -- Private collections -- France.
Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- France.
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McAuley, James K. (James Kelly), 1989-
Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Jews -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Jewish families -- France -- Biography.
Art donors -- France -- Biography.
Art -- Private collections -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Art -- Private collections -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Antisemitism -- France -- History.
Jewish art -- Private collections -- France.
Art and society -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Art and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- France.
MARC Display
The house of fragile things : Jewish
art
collectors and the fall of
France
/ James McAuley.
by
McAuley, James K. (James Kelly), 1989-
Yale University Press, 2021.
Call #:
944.081 M478h
Subjects
Jews
--
France
--
Social conditions
--
19th
century
.
Jews
--
France
--
Social conditions
--
20th
century
.
Jewish families
--
France
--
Biography.
Art
donors
--
France
--
Biography.
Art
--
Private
collections
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Art
--
Private
collections
--
France
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Antisemitism
--
France
--
History
.
Jewish
art
--
Private
collections
--
France
.
Art
and society
--
France
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Art
and society
--
France
--
History
--
20th
century
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
Confiscations and contributions
--
France
.
ISBN:
9780300233377 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 301 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-294) and index.
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."--From publisher.
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