Paintings worth millions, mostly seized from Jewish collectors, were silently absorbed into French national collections, a fact unearthed by Hector Feliciano in "The Lost Museum."

In fact, he recalled, Jewish collectors in the United States were the first to understand and buy his work.

The Commission for Art Recovery is the second new attempt this fall to trace art stolen from Jewish collectors in the 1930's and 40's.

He was convinced it was a Jewish plot (Jewish painters, Jewish dealers, Jewish collectors).

In Salon, Camille Paglia fingers "a Jewish collector and a Jewish museum director" for plotting "Sensation."

When the Reich began a campaign of plundering works from Jewish collectors, members of the Rothschild family attempted to leave the country, taking their paintings with them.