The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

James McAuley

Published by Yale University Press 2021

The House of Fragile Things

Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

James McAuley

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252545

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A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction

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McAuley James :

James McAuley is the Paris correspondent for the Washington Post and a contributor to the New York Review of Books. He recently received his doctorate in French history at Oxford.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Genealogies Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: A Letter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Portraits of a Milieu: A Jewish Elite in Crisis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2 Dreyfus and Drumont: Towards a Material Antisemitism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 ‘Apogee of the Israélite’: Jewish Collectors and the First World War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4 Moïse de Camondo: Chaos and Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5 Théodore Reinach: Jewish Past, French Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6 Béatrice Éphrussi de Rothschild: A Woman Collects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7 Museums of Memory: From Private Collections to National Bequests Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8 To the End of the Line: Drancy and Auschwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
9 ‘La Petite Irène’: Th e Afterlife of a Portrait Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Conclusion: A Death Certificate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 30 color illus.

eBook

Published: April 30, 2021
ISBN: 9780300252545