Author: Wendy Ellen PerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Remembering Dreyfus
Author: Wendy Ellen PerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Ihr seid nicht vergessen
Author: Kay DreyfusPublisher: 3feet publishing
ISBN: 0646854577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The narrative of this book moves backwards across the generations from two brothers – George and Richard Dreyfus – who came to Australia from Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939. The circumstance of their forced migration situates that narrative squarely in relation to the Second World War in general, and the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust in particular. Untimely death dominates the stories of many of these ancestors, relatives whom the brothers never knew. The chronicle of the extended European Dreyfus family provides a template for German Jewish history across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It includes rural Jews, people living in small towns or village communities, who were very different in outlook and lifestyle from those assimilated, secular, affluent, urban Jewish relatives who George remembers better. Using materials from George Dreyfus’s extensive personal archive and the collections of other family members, supplemented by the resources of the internet, the book aims to capture as much as is possible of the story of the European family for the sake of the generations to come, since such history can be so quickly and easily forgotten. In Jewish culture, remembering is a duty, a collective responsibility, a mitzvah, even when – as in this book – remembering is discomforting and confronting. In those familiar words of Immanuel Kant, “Tot ist nur, wer vergessen wird” [Only those who are forgotten are dead].
Remembering Dreyfus
Author: Wendy Ellen PerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Ihr Seid Nicht Vergessen
Author: Kay DreyfusPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646854151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The narrative in this book moves backwards across the generations from two brothers - George and Richard Dreyfus - who came from Germany to Australia as children on a Kindertransport in 1939. The circumstance of their forced migration situates the story squarely in relation to the Second World War in general, and the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust in particular. The Dreyfus family as it survives and thrives in the world today has been shaped by one inescapable fact: those who did not leave Germany and Europe by 1941 at the latest all died. Viewed more broadly, the European Dreyfus family provides a template for German-Jewish history across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It offers up two prototypes. On the one hand, we find families living in small towns or village communities, often engaged in small-scale commerce or working as itinerant agricultural middlemen, as horse-traders or cattle handlers. As emancipation and the removal of previous restrictions limiting the number of Jews in any town enabled Jews to migrate freely to cities in the second half of the nineteenth century, the urban Jew - the second prototype - became representative of German Jews in general: assimilated, secular, well-acquainted with German culture and with a greater degree of wealth and education than the average German, sharing many of the values of educated bourgeois Germans. These Jews were manufacturers, merchants and bankers. Photographs and descriptions of business premises, apartments and houses bear witness to the success and prosperity of these families in the years before the Third Reich, to a way of life and a culture that was irretrievably lost. The purpose of this chronicle is to capture as much as is possible of the rich story of the European family for the sake of the generations to come, since such history can be so quickly and easily forgotten. In Jewish culture, remembering is a duty, a collective responsibility, a mitzvah, even when remembering is discomforting and confronting. In the words of Immanuel Kant, "Tot ist nur, wer vergessen wird" [Only those who are forgotten are dead].
The Dreyfus Trials
Author: Guy ChapmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448205565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. The classic instance is the story of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus. In December 1894 a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the War Office was determined that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both left and right in the French Parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own advantage. The original verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary and the State over the following twelve years. Even now the case provokes arguments of fierce intensity. Guy Chapman's classic exposition of the long drawn-out trials has been out of print for many years and this present thorough revision incorporates the findings of recent scholarship; it is compellingly readable and unapproachably authoritative. The questions still remain - how far were the Dreyfus Trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far did 'justice' prevail?
Remembering Dreyfus: the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme and the making of the modern French human rights movement
Author: Wendy Ellen PerryThe Dreyfus Affair
Author: Leslie DerflerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313092419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
On October 15, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain attached to the French General Staff, was arrested on charges of having betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the Germans. He was convicted of treason by military court-martial and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, but over the next 12 years a small group of human rights supporters was able to clear him and identify the real traitor, and Dreyfus was pardoned. The most sensational case in French history, it pitted national security interests against individual rights, exposed the anti-Semitism that permeated France, and influenced the course of Europe as it rumbled toward the first of two world wars. This work provides the first comprehensive examination of this incident for students, including a narrative historical overview, essays on major aspects of the event, lengthy biographical profiles of the key players, the text of important primary documents contemporary to the time, a timeline of the event and list of French Presidents and Ministers of War during the Affair, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography of print and electronic sources and films suitable for students. This is an ideal resource for student use. Leslie Derfler, the foremost American authority on the Dreyfus Affair, puts the Affair in historical and social context for the reader. In addition to an historical overview, other essays examine the French political context before Dreyfus, the issue of anti-Semitism in the Affair, the Socialists' position, and how historical perceptions of the Dreyfus Affair have shifted over the last hundred years. Lengthy biographies of key players enrich the reader's understanding of the role of the protagonists and antagonists in the Affair. A wide range of primary source documents, from Alfred Dreyfus's diary descriptions of the torment he suffered on Devil's Island to Emile Zola's famous J'accuse! letter accusing the Army high command and the French government of conspiring to hide the truth and protect the guilty party, bring to life the emotional content of the Affair. A selection of rare photographs and newspaper illustrations and cartoons provides a valuable visual component.
Remembering in Vain
Author: Alain FinkielkrautPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231501378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Remembering in Vain
Remembering Dreyfus: the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme and the making of the modern French human rights movement
Author: Wendy Ellen PerryColonialism and the Jews
Author: Ethan B. KatzPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253024625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.