TY - BOOK AU - Simms,Norman TI - Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Milieu, Mentality and Midrash SN - 9781644693254 PB - Academic Studies Press KW - History / Jewish KW - bisacsh KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public 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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6e2c9e17-77cf-41eb-9cc5-01e6167376bf ER -