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Item Information       Choice Review     More Content     More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McAuley, James K. (James Kelly), 1989-       by title:      The house of fragile...       by call number:      944.081 M478h     Search the Web     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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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