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Alfred dreyfus : man, milieu, mentality and midrash / Norman Simms.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simms, Norman.
- Series:
- Reference library of Jewish intellectual history
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Dreyfus, Alfred.
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
- Families.
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935. Correspondence.
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935. Diaries.
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935--Family.
- Antisemitism--France--History--19th century.
- Antisemitism.
- France.
- History.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking book focuses on 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.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. : Introduction
- Diffraction of light rays
- The Dreyfus texts
- The myth of the unthinkable and the impossible
- Ch. 2. : Bodies of evidence
- An orchestrated litany of lies
- Alfred and Lucie's love letters
- Internal pains and external brains
- Ch. 3. : The phantasmagoria of a secular Midrash
- Introduction
- Midrashing the cahiers
- More essays and excursions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1936235390
- 9781936235391
- OCLC:
- 694485936
- Publisher Number:
- 99947927189
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