The real Daniel Deronda emerged on 5 January 1895, in the freezing cold courtyard of the école Militaire in Paris. The occasion was the public degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew serving on the French army general staff, who had been accused, tried and convicted–on what subsequently emerged to be fabricated evidence–of handing secrets to the Germans. Watching the ceremony, one of the few journalists allowed to attend, was Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Vienna liberal daily,
