Join Yale Professor Maurice Samuels For A Lively Discussion On His New Book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

Yale Professor Maurice Samuels Will Be Speaking About His New Book

Alfred Dreyfus:  The Man at the Center of the Affair

Join us for an exciting talk by one of Yale’s foremost scholars and the head of the

Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism

On February 25 at noon on Zoom, Professor Samuels will speak to us about his biography of Alfred Dreyfus which was published in the Jewish Lives series (Yale University Press) in February 2024.  With tremendous insight and beautiful writing, Professor Samuels provides a new perspective on a story which is part of the Jewish experience. 

Harvard University, A.B. (1990), A.M. (1995), and Ph.D. (2000)

Professor Maurice Samuels specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France, Jewish Studies, and the history of antisemitism. He is broadly interested in investigating the origins of our cultural modernity, tracing how new forms of subjectivity—and new ideas about history, politics, race, and the novel—took shape in the period following the French Revolution. His books on Jewish themes include:  Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France(Link is external) (Stanford, 2010), which brings to light the first Jewish fiction writers in French in the mid-nineteenth century; The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews(Link is external) (Chicago, 2016) which studies the way French writers and thinkers have conceived of the place of Jews within the nation from the French Revolution to the present; The Betrayal of the Duchess(Link is external) (Basic, 2020) which resurrects a forgotten historical scandal that led to modern France’s first antisemitic affair; and most recently, a biography of Alfred Dreyfus(Link is external), which was published in the Jewish Lives series (Yale University Press, 2024). He also co-edited a Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature Reader(Link is external) (Stanford, 2013) and edited Les grands auteurs de la littérature juive au XIXe siècle(Link is external) (Hermann, 2015).

Professor Samuels is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and of the New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship, he served as chair of Yale’s Judaic Studies Program and has directed the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism since 2011.  

Please join us for this exciting opportunity to hear Professor Samuels.