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Marcel Proust exhibition. On the mother's side: in search of the maternal family

2022-05-24T18:24:00.995Z


CRITICISM - An exhibition at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris on the writer's mother explores her "Jewish part".


One of the most specialized and original exhibitions linked to the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust is held in Paris, at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism.

It bears on his maternal family, Jewish, and, more generally, on the Jewishness of the one who was baptized “for convenience”.

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Isabelle Cahn, former head of paintings at the Musée d'Orsay, mounted it with, as scientific adviser, the academician Antoine Compagnon, author of a recent book on the question.

Through 230 pieces, works of art (Rodin, Bonnard, Vuillard, portraits of Jacques-Émile Blanche, caricatures of Cocteau) and above all archives, the route details this branch of the Weils, Jews of Alsatian origin, perfectly integrated into the modern bourgeoisie, sometimes even, for some, freemasons and freethinkers.

In Paris, it all starts with great-grandfather Baruch Weil, the main circumciser for the community living in the capital.

A modest and assumed Jewishness

From the philosopher Henri Bergson, with whom the Weils were…

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Source: lefigaro

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