...This chapter reviews the process of Jewish self-questioning and cultural activity in France that began with the Dreyfus affair and reached its peak in the late 1920s. It recounts important changes in France and on the international stage that changed the priorities, concerns, and activities...

... the position of virtually all French people of support for the Union sacrée. Despite the fact that the Ligue’s origins in the Dreyfus Affair lay in a rejection of the military ethos in French society, it reverted almost instantly to a neo-Jacobin crusading posture based on a deep antipathy to Germany. The case...

...Chapter 2, also devoted to Zola, concentrates on the Dreyfus Affair itself. Where many discussions of his engagement focus entirely or primarily on his best-known text, ‘J’Accuse…!,’ I place that work in the context of Zola’s twelve other publications about the Affair: the complete volume...

...The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him...

... military, colonial, and ethnographic writing about northern Algerian Jewry that had been penned decades earlier, in the aftermath of the French conquest of the Tell. They read events in the Mzab through global politics, including the unfolding Dreyfus affair and the wave of anti-Semitism that was sweeping...

... by the end of that decade made such polemics increasingly less attractive for Jews in Germany from the 1880s on. Even in France, where anticlericalism remained prevalent during the early decades of the French Third Republic and throughout the Dreyfus affair, by World War I, aggressive anticlerical rhetoric...

...Orientalist philology brought people deemed Semitic together under the rubric of Semitism, and it subsequently broke up this forced grouping into the distinct categories of Jew, Arab, and Muslim. Chapter 3 demonstrates how the Dreyfus Affair exacerbated tensions between Jews, Muslims, and European...

.... A huge Pa risian crowd welcomes Marchand (L’Illustration, 10 June 1899). The Dreyfus Affair threatened to split France apart. The charges against Captain Alfred Dreyfus were false, and anti-Semitism had played no small part in both the accusation of treason and the solitary confinement...

... to free the remaining prisoners in Montjuich. The chapter assesses the implications of Montseny's decision to return to Spain on the reinvigoration of the Montjuich campaign. It considers the two monumental developments that were well out of Montseny's control: the Dreyfus affair in France and the Spanish...

... the diminutive stature of Spain among the concert of powers. The chapter concludes by analyzing how the Dreyfus affair beaconed from across the Pyrenees as a model of dissident unity in the face of a retrograde injustice. Canalejas José Salmerón Nicolás Spanish American War Clemenceau Georges Dreyfus a ffair...

...This chapter determines why the 1890s were one of the most exciting, richest, and most productive periods in French music history. It studies other powerful cultural forces that came before the Dreyfus Affair and influenced music and its meanings. It investigates the changes in the nature of both...

...This chapter looks at Marcel Proust's epic, a multi-volume novel titled In Search of Lost Time, where a distinguished member of the Jockey Club named Charles Swann is regarded as a Jew before the Dreyfus affair erupted and heightened the Jew-consciousness. It explains why Marcel...

...This chapter examines the antisemitic riots of 1898, which was possibly the high-point of popular involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, and certainly the main manifestation of hostility to Jews in the period. The evidence from administrative and police reports establishes that the 1898 riots were both...

...This chapter highlights the other antisemitic organizations that sprang up in France at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. Many political groups then competed to exploit what seemed a promising means of obtaining popular support, and politicians and publicists across the whole political spectrum...

... type of event that began to appear in France in the last third of the nineteenth century: the media event. These were events such as the Dreyfus affair that owed part of their existence to the appearance of a mass circulating press. Yet media events, which may have appeared ‘monstrous’ and disparate...

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...This chapter looks at the Dreyfus affair and the questions which it raised for German observers, including the fundamental relationship between law and the state. In many instances, this relationship defined the nature and extent of politics, often by excluding political parties from state affairs...

... offices with Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, André Gide, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Valéry. La Belle Époque featured the Dreyfus affair, and Blum’s brother Léon, as well as their close friends such as Marcel Proust, all sought to vindicate Dreyfus and prove his innocence. René was twenty years old...

... was brought to ruin by his own disastrous troubles. After a three-year separation, the two were reunited in Paris in March 1898, with the Dreyfus affair then at fever-pitch and the city, in Blacker’s words, ‘in a ferment’. During his extended residence abroad while his ‘tempestuous affairs’ played out...

... of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, the author connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, the Dreyfus Affair, tropical medicine, postwar exploration of outer space, satellite technology, development...