Description: Further DetailsTitle: Alfred DreyfusCondition: NewSubtitle: The Man at the Center of the AffairISBN-10: 0300254008EAN: 9780300254006ISBN: 9780300254006Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/26/2024Description: An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents “An admirable introduction not only to its nominal subject but to . . . great historical events.”—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers new insight into Dreyfus himself—the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of Dreyfus’s early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the false accusation leading to his imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the fight to prove his innocence that divided the French nation, and his life of quiet obscurity after World War I. Samuels’s striking perspective is enriched by a newly available archive of more than three thousand documents and objects donated by the Dreyfus family. Unlike many historians, Samuels argues that Dreyfus was not an “assimilated” Jew. Rather, he epitomized a new model of Jewish identity made possible by the French Revolution, when France became the first European nation to grant Jews full legal equality. This book analyzes Dreyfus’s complex relationship to Judaism and to antisemitism over the course of his life—a story that, as global antisemitism rises, echoes still. It also shows the profound effect of the Dreyfus Affair on the lives of Jews around the world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 146mmAuthor: Maurice SamuelsGenre: BiographyBook Series: Jewish LivesTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Alfred Dreyfus
Title: Alfred Dreyfus
Subtitle: The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN-10: 0300254008
EAN: 9780300254006
ISBN: 9780300254006
Release Date: 03/26/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Jewish Lives
Book Title: Alfred Dreyfus : the Man at the Center of the Affair
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Europe / France, Historical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 15 oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Maurice Samuels
Item Width: 6.2 in
Book Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Format: Hardcover
