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Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash

Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash

SIMMs, Norman

Hardcover

Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History

Historical FiguresMilitary BiographiesJudaism

ISBN10: 1936235390
ISBN13: 9781936235391
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Dec 1 2011
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called a phantasmagoria of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading.

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