TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simms,Norman Toby
TI  - In the context of his times: Alfred Dreyfus as lover, intellectual, poet, and Jew 
T2  - Reference library of Jewish intellectual history
SN  - 9781618112378 (electronic bk.)
AV  - DC354 .S56 2013eb
U1  - 944.081092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Dreyfus, Alfred,
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1870-1940
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Through a spinning prism lightly. Random words of a solitary man ; The phantasmagoria of anti-semitism and anti-zionism. -- The ultimate contraption. The final prison cahiers: Nostalgia, anxieties, and reveries ; The Jewish syndic, satan's synagogue and cynicism ; Through the prism of anti-semitic discourse ; Dreyfus and socially-constructed autism. -- Transcending radical solitude. A poor pedlar's bundle of things ; Dreyfus, Jewish art and midrashic aesthetics
N2  - From the very moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down, and for the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep himself sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and received letters from his wife and exercised his intellect through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed him. In this volume, Norman Simms explores how Dreyfus kept himself from exploding into madness by reading his essays carefully, placing them in the context of his century
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