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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824632703321

Autore

Simms Norman

Titolo

Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus in the phantasmagoria / / by Norman Simms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4438-6076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.)

Disciplina

944.0812092

Soggetti

Jews - France - History - 19th century

Jews - France - Identity

Antisemitism - France - History - 19th century

Prisoners - France

France Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; THEMATIC GUIDES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Alfred Dreyfus saw himself caught in a phantasmagoria, a great complex enigma that needed to be solved, but all the clues seemed to be an hallucination, a will-o'-th'-wisp or what George Sand called orblutes. This book examines how Dreyfus and his wife found a powerful new kind of love through Jewish themes at the same time as they were forced to conceal their true identities. To see how Jewish Dreyfus was, the book explores his background in Alsatian culture, in the cosmopolitan Judaism of P...