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 collections...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
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.