LEADER 03221nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910462181203321 005 20231019211746.0 010 $a1-61811-041-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618110411 035 $a(CKB)2670000000204308 035 $a(EBL)3110464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000686010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415034 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10717663 035 $a(PQKB)11520161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3110464 035 $a(DE-B1597)541136 035 $a(OCoLC)864383501 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618110411 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3110464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10567520 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546517 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000204308 100 $a20120608d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlfred Dreyfus $eman, milieu, mentality and Midrash /$fNorman Simms 210 $aBoston $cAcademic Studies Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (414 p.) 225 1 $aReference library of Jewish intellectual history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-936235-39-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of Contents --$tPrologue --$tChapter One: Introduction --$tChapter Two: Bodies of Evidence --$tChapter Three: The Phantasmagoria of a Secular Midrash --$tEpilogue --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called a ?phantasmagoria? of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading. 410 0$aReference library of Jewish intellectual history. 606 $aTrials (Treason)$xPolitical aspects$zFrance 606 $aAntisemitism$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMidrash 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yThird Republic, 1870-1940 615 0$aTrials (Treason)$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aAntisemitism$xHistory 615 0$aMidrash. 676 $a944.0812092 700 $aSimms$b Norman Toby$0853731 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462181203321 996 $aAlfred Dreyfus$91906286 997 $aUNINA