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June 8, 2015

A Paris Museum and France’s Short-Lived Sephardi Aristocracy

The story of an Ottoman Jewish family in Paris.

Moïse de Camondo, a member of a wealthy clan of Sephardi merchants originating in Istanbul, settled in Paris in the 1870s with other members of his family. After his death in 1935, his home—which he filled with fashionable 18th-century antiques—became a museum that still operates today as an unintended monument to a very particular slice of French-Jewish history. Christina Sztajnkrycer writes:

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