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Jewish Artists

Suggested Readings 

A Growing List of Sources on Jewish Artists and the

Ecole de Paris, in early 20th French Century Art

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Dorléac L. Bertrand, Art of the Defeat: France 1940-1944. Los Angeles, Calif: Getty Research Institute, 2008.

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Michèle C. Cone, French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art Before, During, and After Vichy. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001.

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Michèle C. ​Cone, Artists Under Vichy: A Case of Prejudice and Persecution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

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Sonia Delaunay. London: Tate Publishing, 2015.

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Edmund De Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes. London: Vintage, 2011.

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Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. New York: Center Street, 2009.

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Gloria Goldreich, The Bridal Chair: A Novel. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015.

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Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2004.

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Mason Klein, and Richard Nathanson. Modigliani Unmasked. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

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Claude Lanzmann, Nadine Nieszawer, and Deborah Princ. Artistes Juifs De L'école De Paris: 1905-1939 = Jewish Artists of the School of Paris. Paris: Somogy Éditions d'Art, 2015.

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Le Morvan, Berthe Weill: 1865-1951 : La Petite Galeriste Des Grands Artistes. , 2013.

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Andy Marino, A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013.

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Carla K. McClafferty, In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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Jennifer ​Mundy, Giorgia Bottinelli, and Sean Rainbird. Cubism and Its Legacy: The Gift of Gustav & Elly Kahnweiler. London: Tate, 2004.

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Anne M. ​O'Connor, The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, "portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer". New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.

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Barbara A. Shapiro, The Collector's Apprentice: A Novel. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

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Anne Sinclair, and Shaun Whiteside. My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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Gertrude Stein and Maira Kalman. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York : Penguin Press, 2020.

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Rosanna Warren, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020.

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Berthe ​Weill and François Roussier. Pan! Dans L'oeil!: Ou Trente Ans Dans Les Coulisses De La Peinture Contemporaine, 1900-1930. Dijon: L'Échelle de Jacob, 2009.

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