Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty: Charity in Parisian High Society 1880–1914

Macknight, Elizabeth Chalmers

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“…Later, when living in Paris, Zinaida continued to cultivate ties to artists, musicians, and theater celebrities to cement her place in cultured society. Like the French aristocracy, her family continued to "deploy social and symbolic forms of capital" by providing patronage for the performing arts 50 . Zinaida often invited artists to perform at her salon to promote their plays.…”

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Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs

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2020

Vestnik SPbSU. History

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Recently historians have come to recognize the need to go beyond national history and to acknowledge the transnational, which became so important in the globalization of 1870-1914. It is no less essential to expand the focus beyond economics alone and to consider the array of other factors, especially cultural and religious, that were ever more powerful and capable of transcending national boundaries. One key analytic framework in recent scholarship is "intimacy, " which focuses on the social nexus and political connections that were so critical in the rise of the new industrial-financial elites across Europe. This paper examines the case of the Poliakovs, a Russian Jewish family that began as petty merchants in the Pale of Settlement but became leading bankers, railroad barons, and factory owners in late Imperial Russia. Drawing on family records (especially the diaries of two family members) but also an array of archival and printed sources (including the societal pages of leading French and German newspapers), this paper examines: a) how the Poliakovs learned to "perform" successfully in aristocratic high society; b) how and why that performance was so critical to the family's perceived affluence (and hence the credibility of their various businesses); c) how the transnational served simultaneously to cement the family's status in the Russian elite and to become part of the Jewish diaspora (not only to promote business but to avoid intermarriage). This was a family business in the fullest sense: the family was the business.

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Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs

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2020

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“…110 Judaic traditions were also protected by sociability and endogamous marriage among Jews-although marital unions of Jews and Catholics were not uncommon within the upper class by the late 1800s. 111 For the Camondo cousins, Moïse and Isaac, learning Hebrew was vital to their identity and practice of faith as Jews. "Part of the process of learning to read .…”

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"A Mountain of Words"

Macknight

2019

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

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This article presents an interdisciplinary approach to archival research on records produced by children that survive in family archives. It corresponds with the aims of education specialists who investigate patterns in language learning to understand how young minds absorb influences concurrently from familial, religious, and social circles across disparate cultural settings. Drawing upon the concept of syncretic literacy, the article interprets French archival evidence of children’s development of linguistic competency and sensitivity to language use in context. It argues for the need to advocate both the conservation of children’s archives and the design of educational programs that enable children to discover the role of archivists and the purposes of recordkeeping in society.

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Noblewomen, Business, and Financial Management in Nineteenth-Century France

Macknight

2024

Frontiers in Economic History

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Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty: Charity in Parisian High Society 1880–1914

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs

Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs

"A Mountain of Words"

Noblewomen, Business, and Financial Management in Nineteenth-Century France

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