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In the context of his times : Alfred Dreyfus as lover, intellectual, poet, and Jew /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simms, Norman Toby (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2013.
Series:Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.