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Material masterpieces: art collecting and the formulation of French-Jewish identity from Dreyus to Vichy
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This thesis relies on an extensive series of previously unexploited archival materials in France, Britain, and the United States to examine the role of art collecting among French- Jewish elites after Dreyfus and before Vichy. The families who constituted France's fin-de- siècle Jewish establishment—among others, the Rothschilds and the Reinachs, the Éphrussis and the Foulds, the Camondos and the Cahen d'Anvers—all shared an intense interest in collecting art and material obj...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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2017-02-21
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- McAuley, J
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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