The Anti-Semitic Moment (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Pierre Birnbaum
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1898
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Alfred Dreyfus, Ferdinand Esterhazy, Georges Picquart, Hubert Henry, Émile Zola, Édouard Drumont, Paul Déroulède, Jules Guérin, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurès, Superintendent Leproust
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Translation
- Subjects: France or French people, Police, Nineteenth century, Trials, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Politicians, Riots, Corruption, Military life or service, Terrorism or terrorists, Citizenship, Jews and Gentiles, Persecution, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: France
Pierre Birnbaum is a social historian who has published extensively on anti-Semitism in France. In his introduction to this well-researched historical study, he admits that much of substance has been written on the unjust conviction of Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) by a French military tribunal in 1894 on the charge of treason, on the cover-up by leading French military officers, and on writer Émile Zola’s heroic defense of Captain Dreyfus’s innocence in his famous open letter “J’accuse” (“I accuse”), published by the Parisian newspaper L’Aurore on January 13, 1898....
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