03221nam 2200637 a 450 991046218120332120231019211746.01-61811-041-110.1515/9781618110411(CKB)2670000000204308(EBL)3110464(SSID)ssj0000686010(PQKBManifestationID)11415034(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686010(PQKBWorkID)10717663(PQKB)11520161(MiAaPQ)EBC3110464(DE-B1597)541136(OCoLC)864383501(DE-B1597)9781618110411(Au-PeEL)EBL3110464(CaPaEBR)ebr10567520(CaONFJC)MIL546517(EXLCZ)99267000000020430820120608d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAlfred Dreyfus man, milieu, mentality and Midrash /Norman SimmsBoston Academic Studies Press20121 online resource (414 p.)Reference library of Jewish intellectual historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-936235-39-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Table of Contents --Prologue --Chapter One: Introduction --Chapter Two: Bodies of Evidence --Chapter Three: The Phantasmagoria of a Secular Midrash --Epilogue --Bibliography --IndexThis 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.Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.Trials (Treason)Political aspectsFranceAntisemitismFranceHistory19th centuryMidrashFranceHistoryThird Republic, 1870-1940Trials (Treason)Political aspectsAntisemitismHistoryMidrash.944.0812092Simms Norman Toby853731MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462181203321Alfred Dreyfus1906286UNINA