Lazare’s insistence on legal impartiality led him to isolation

Evidence

Lazare’s position in the Dreyfus Affair is best described by Charles Péguy, “Notre Jeunesse,” in Cahiers de la quinzaine, Paris, 1910. Regarding him as the true representative of Jewish interests, Péguy formulates Lazare’s demands as follows: “He was a partisan of the impartiality of the law. Impartiality of law in the Dreyfus case, impartial law in the case of the religious orders. This seems like a trifle; this can lead far. This led him to isolation in death.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Lazare’s universalist stance — impartial law for all — from both Dreyfusard and anti-Dreyfusard partiality, a key distinction for the field’s understanding of the Affair.