Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash

Norman Simms

Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 December 2011
Pages
414
ISBN
9781936235391

Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash

Norman Simms

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, 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 scepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualised 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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