Divided France?: The Dreyfus Affair

What were the causes of the Dreyfus Affair?
How widespread was anti-Semitism in France at the end of the nineteenth century?
What explains the role of intellectuals, such as Zola, in the Affair?
What were the links between the Dreyfus Affair and gender identities?
What were the political, social, and economic consequences of the Affair?
Does the Dreyfus Affair still matter today?

D Drake, French Intellectuals and Politics (2005), chapter 1 [ebook]
C Forth, ‘Adventure of the naked truth: The Dreyfus Affair and the female form,’ French Cultural Studies 12 (2001) [electronic]
N Fitch, ‘Mass parliamentary politics, and modern anti-Semitism: The Dreyfus Affair in rural France,’ American Historical Review 97:1 (1992), 55-95 [electronic]
R Harris, ‘How the Dreyfus Affair Explains Sarkozy’s Barqa Ban,’ 12 May 2010 www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/12/how_the_dreyfus_affair_explains_sarkozy_s_burqa_ban
Background: Popkin, History of Modern France, chps. 20.

French government website on the Dreyfus Affair (in French and English): http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/
Links to some excellent Dreyfus resources (in French and English):http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/dreyfus/links.cfm

R Harris, The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France (2010)
M Burns, Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair (1984)
R Gildea, Children of the Revolution (2008), chap 9
R Griffiths, The Use of Abuse: The Polemics of the Dreyfus Affair and its Aftermath (1991)
L Begley, Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (2009)
R Kaplan, The fin-de-siècle Crisis of Democracy in France, chap 8
R Harris, ‘The Assumptionists and the Dreyfus Affair,’ Past and Present 194 (2007)
A Mitchell, The Xenophobia Style: French Counterespionage and the emergence of the Dreyfus Affair,’ Journal of Modern History 52:3 (1980) 414-25
E Cahm, The Dreyfus affair in French society and politics (1996)
DWJ Johnson, France and the Dreyfus affair (1966)
M Larkin, Church and state after the Dreyfus affair: the separation issue in France (1974)
Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus affair: art, truth, and justice (1987)
L. Derfler, The Dreyfus Affair (2002)
R Kedward, The Dreyfus Affair (1965)
M Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945 (1992)

C Forth, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004)
C Forth, ' Intellectuals, Crowds, and the Body Politics of the Dreyfus Affair,' Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques 24 (1998), 63-91
C Forth. ''Bodies of Christ: Gender, Jewishness, and Religious Imagery in the Dreyfus Affair,' History Workshop Journal 48 (1999), 18-38
R Harris, ‘Letters to Lucie: Spirituality, Friendship and Politics during the Dreyfus Affair,’ French Historical Studies 28:4 (2005)
V Datta, ' From Devil's Island to the Pantheon? Alfred Dreyfus, the Anti-Hero,' in C Forth and E Accampo (eds), Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle France (2009)

D Drake, French Intellectuals and politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation (2005)
J Wright, ‘After the Affair: The Congrès de la Jeunesse and Intellectual Reconciliation in 1900,’ French History 23:4 (2009)
P Rutkoff, 'The Ligue des Partriotes: The Nature of the Radical Right and the Dreyfus Affair,' French Historical Studies 8:4 (1974), 585-603
J.J. Cerullo, 'Religion and the psychology of Dreyfusard Intellectualism,' Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques 24 (1998), 93-114
V Detta, Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France, 1890-1905 (1999)

MR Marrus, The politics of assimilation: a study of the French Jewish community at the time of the Dreyfus Affair (1971)
R Berkovitz, The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France (1989)
Fertig, Antisemitism in Modern France: A Prologue to the Dreyfus Affair (1969)
R Byrnes, 'Anti-Semitism in France before the Dreyfus Affair,' Jewish Social Studies 11:1 (1949), 49-68
Hannah Ardendt, ‘From the Dreyfus Affair to France Today,’ Jewish Social Studies 4/3 (1942), 195-240
Aron Rodrigue, 'Rearticulations of French Jewish Identities after the Dreyfus Affair,' Jewish Social Studies 2/3 (1996), 1-24
N Green, The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoch (1986)
R Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (2003)
S Wilson, Ideology and experience: Anti-semitism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair (1982)
P Albert, The modernization of French Jewry: consistory and community in the nineteenth century (1977)
P Birnbaum, ‘Grégoire, Dreyfus and the rue Copernic’ in P Nora (ed) Realms of Memory, Vol 1 Conflicts and Divisions (1996)
M Winock, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France (1998)
P. Birnbaum, The Jews of the Republic: A Political History of State Jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy (1992)
P Birnbaum, The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 ( 2011)

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