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The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance
Book • 2010
Edmund de Waal recounts his inheritance of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory netsuke from his great-uncle, exploring their journey through his family's opulent past in Paris and Vienna as part of the Ephrussi banking dynasty.
The narrative follows the collection's survival through anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus affair, Nazi plunder, and postwar Tokyo, preserved by a loyal maid, serving as a meditation on memory, touch, and the secret lives of objects across a tumultuous century.
The narrative follows the collection's survival through anti-Semitism, the Dreyfus affair, Nazi plunder, and postwar Tokyo, preserved by a loyal maid, serving as a meditation on memory, touch, and the secret lives of objects across a tumultuous century.
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Rachel Cockerell
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Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
