Maurice Samuels

Jun 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Mike Rapport |Maurice Samuels

Few places and periods in history conjure up such powerful images as Belle Epoque Paris: the cabarets of Montmartre, the glamour of the Grands Boulevards, the glories of Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Understandably, the era is often viewed through a haze of nostalgia, across the chasm of the First World War. Yet, as Mike Rapport makes clear in his splendid new book, the Belle Epoque was also a time of instability, upheaval and bitter division, in Paris and throughout France.

May 24, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Maurice Samuels

Many historians have attempted to sort out France’s “L’Affaire Dreyfus” since its unfolding in 1894. In Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, Maurice Samuels, professor of French and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, approaches the topic by exploring the history of the Jewish Dreyfus family.

Feb 27, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Maurice Samuels |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

A capable introduction to the intense factionalism the Dreyfus Affair ignited and how numerous relevant arguments remain. A deeply sympathetic reexamination of the life of Alfred Dreyfus and the role antisemitism played in the affair that enflamed the French Republic.