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Alfred Dreyfus
Man, milieu, mentality, and midrash
Norman Simms
This book by Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and English at University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, is to be published in October 2011. When people say the Dreyfus Affair split a nation or enaugurated a new era, they are …
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In the context of his times
Alfred Dreyfus as lover, intellectual, poet, and Jew
Norman Simms
From the moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and espionage, his entire world was turned upside down. For the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep sane, Dreyfus wrote letters to and received lette…
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Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Comedians and Catastrophes
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Volume 1
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Norman Simms
The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of i…
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Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Falling out of Place and into History
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Volume 2
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Norman Simms
These further six chapters of Jews in an Illusion of Paradise now focus on individual exemplary figures and clusters of poets, dramatists, critics, journalists, art historians—Jews whose achievements were once celebrated, but now are almost all but …
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