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April 22, 2021

French Anti-Semitism Didn’t Spare the Highest Echelon of the Franco-Jewish Elite

Art collectors, millionaires, and victims.

By the 1870s, a handful of Jewish families had emerged as some of Paris’s wealthiest, and amassed splendid art collections. Many members of these families later lost their lives in the Holocaust. Reviewing two recent books about these Jews—one a history, one a work of epistolary fiction—Julian Barnes describes how their material and cultural success could not protect them from anti-Semitism:

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