Derek Perkins
Author
Language
English
Description
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction
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...