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 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 - Prisonniers KW - Biographies KW - Antisémitisme KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - 1870-1940 KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=640304 ER -