TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Waal,Edmund
TI  - Letters to Camondo
SN  - 9780374603489
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - De Waal, Edmund
KW  - Camondo, Moïse de,
KW  - Camondo family.
KW  - Musée Nissim de Camondo
KW  - Imaginary letters
KW  - Art
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jewish capitalists and financiers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Personal correspondence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"--; The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism, much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, a ceramic artist, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory. -- adapted from Amazon info
ER  -