News, articles and information about Jewish art, architecture, and historic sites. This blog includes material to be posted on the website of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments www. The artist represented in the statue one of the movements of the "Presenting Arms" act, when the officer raises the sword at head level, then tumbles it with the point down. Significantly, the statue's sword does not have the blade, only the hilt, symbolizing that even after its degradation, Dreyfus kept his military honor intact, and even with a broken sword, he still executes the military salute.
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Wilhelm Wachtel. Jewish Youth Swearing Oath. Illustration, Rocznik Zydowski ,. JHI, Warsaw. Jewish Art , Vol. Jules L. Butensky Universal Peace , c. Metropolitan Musuem of Art. The Dreyfus statue also stands distinct from the version of the heroic Jewish fighter created by Polish-Jewish sculptor Nathan Rapoport in his Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument of and its progeny celebrating Ghetto fighters and the warriors of the Israeli War of Independence.
Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument. Nathan Rapoport, sculptor, Photo: Samuel Gruber As Thomas Bass has written in an informative essay about the Dreyfus statue and the entire Dreyfus Affair, "If it had been installed in its rightful place, Dreyfus would be saluting his fellow officers and the army that tortured him.
But the army was on to Mitelberg and his subversive sense of humor. They wanted no cartoons of soldiers holding broken swords. The Dreyfus statue eventually found a permanent home in the small Square Pierre Lafue. Appropriately, the museum houses the Fonds Dreyfus , an archive of over 3, items donated by the grandchildren of Captain Dreyfus.
