Belong­ing and Betray­al: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dell­heim synced a small town in the

a small town in the Rocky Mountains

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and social dynamics of the ghetto

In drawings that capture both the tumult and the telling details of that street life

working to procure false documents

Belong­ing and Betray­al: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dell­heim synced a small town in the2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late 1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause clbre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place and what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity. This