TY  - GEN
AU  - Simms,Norman
TI  - Alfred Dreyfus : Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash
SN  - 9781644693254
PY  - 2008///
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 skepticism as well as idealism
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43906/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33283
ER  -