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Alfred Dreyfus - Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash (Hardcover, New)
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Alfred Dreyfus - Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash (Hardcover, New)
Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
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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,
scientifi c, 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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