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Control # 1 2021930169
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20230131134105.0
Fixed Data 8 210105t20212021ctuabf b 001 0deng d
LC Card 10    $a 2021930169
ISBN 20    $a9780300233377$qhardcover
ISBN 20    $a030023337X$qhardcover
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)on1233317912
Obsolete 39    $a330825$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aUKMGB$beng$erda$cUKMGB$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dCDX$dYDX$dNZAUC$dMTG$dOCLCO$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $alccopycat
Geog. Area 43    $ae-fr---
LC Call 50 00 $aDS135.F83$bM42 2021
Dewey Class 82 04 $a704.03924/044$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aMcAuley, James K.$q(James Kelly),$d1989-$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe house of fragile things :$bJewish art collectors and the fall of France /$cJames McAuley.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2021]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2021
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction: 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.
Abstract 520    $aIn 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJewish families$zFrance$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt$xCollectors and collecting$zFrance$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt donors$zFrance$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zFrance.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJews$zFrance$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJews$zFrance$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt and society$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aArt and society$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConfiscations and contributions$zFrance.