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In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
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Jules Pascin
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1907
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At the house of salonnière Geneviève Straus in Clos des Mûnieres, Trouville, Normandy, 1893. Sitting (from left) are Marcel Proust, Louis Ganderax, and Straus. Standing (from left) are an unidentified…
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Photographer Unknown
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French Republic (Normandy, France)
Date:
1893
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My name is Benillouche, Alexandre Mordekhai.
How galling the smiles of my classmates! In our alley, and at the Alliance School, I hadn’t known how ridiculous, how revealing, my name could be…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
Date:
1953
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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1961
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Alfred Wolmark painted Fisher Girl of Concarneau during a ten-week honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany. He was fascinated by the town’s people and scenery. While in Concarneau, he painted several…
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Alfred Wolmark
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Concarneau, French Republic (Concarneau, France)
Date:
1911
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A depiction of a Jew from Lorraine, engraved by Sébastien Leclerc in Paris. The antisemitic inscription, which alludes to the Jewish man having acquired wealth by deceptive means, is a rhymed couplet…
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Sébastien Leclerc
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1664
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“No,” said Golder.
He moved the shade with a brusque gesture, so that the lamp light fell full on the features of Simon Marcus, who sat opposite him, at the other side of the table. For a…
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Irène Némirovsky
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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Have I made it clear how much I indulge my husband? Seven years of love had been simply one long series of concessions, joyfully made in a whirl of happiness. I adjusted to everything, all the…
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Sarah Lévy
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1930
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For the role of scapegoat, the prestidigitators chose Jews.
Rattling around in the recesses of their memory were recollections about how prewar governments in…
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Zygmunt Bauman
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Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1968
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On his way home Gurdweill tried without success to find the reason for Lotte’s strange behaviour. He went over everything he had said in her house in his mind: there was nothing that could have…
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David Vogel
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1929