Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust · Arts & Literature
French novelist, author of In Search of Lost Time; his mother Jeanne Weil was Jewish (raised Catholic)
1871, Auteuil, Paris, France — 1922, Paris, France
France
Marcel Proust is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — French novelist, author of In Search of Lost Time; his mother Jeanne Weil was Jewish (raised Catholic)
Proust was a French novelist whose seven-volume masterpiece In Search of Lost Time transformed the modern novel through its exploration of memory and time. His mother, Jeanne Weil, came from an Alsatian Jewish family, giving him documented Jewish ancestry on his mother's side, though he was baptised and raised Catholic like his father.
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French novelist, author of In Search of Lost Time; his mother Jeanne Weil was Jewish (raised Catholic)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust
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