Combray is the setting for the first volume of Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (“In Search of Lost Time,” 2004). Proust (1871–1922), the baptized Christian son of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, endowed Combray and his novel with both Jewish and Fre…
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Isenschmid, Andreas, “Combray”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 03 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0147>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20180401
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