ISBN:
9780300233377
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 301 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als McAuley, James The house of fragile things
DDC:
704.03924044
Keywords:
Art Private collections
;
Jewish art Private collections
;
Art Protection
;
History
;
Jews Social conditions 19th century
;
Jews Social conditions 20th century
;
Art and society History
;
Antisemitism History
;
World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions
;
Antisemitism
;
Art and society
;
Art ; Private collections
;
Art ; Protection
;
Confiscations
;
Jews ; Social conditions
;
History
;
France
;
Frankreich
;
Juden
;
Kunstsammler
;
Privatsammlung
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Kunstraub
;
Camondo, Moïse de 1860-1935
;
Reinach, Théodore 1860-1928
;
Ephrussi de Rothschild, Béatrice 1864-1934
;
Geschichte 1939-1945
Abstract:
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.
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