Rene Blum and the Ballet Russe

by Judith Chazin-Bennahum / Oxford University Press / 2011

A biography of writer, producer, WWI war hero Rene Blum, who saved the Ballet Russe after Diaghilev died.
Unfortunately, there was no one to save him in WW2 when he was arrested during a vicious Nazi strike against
Jewish intellectuals and died in Auschwitz.

His legacy to the U.S. is bringing artists like Fokine, Balanchine and Nijinska here to change the influence
the quality and popularity of ballet in America.


6 1/2 x 9 1/2" / 277 pages


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