A vitally important film covering a universal and unfortunately ongoing issue…Tracing the insidious origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the 1894 Dreyfus Affair to the present day, this film delves deeply and intellectually into the depiction of “the Jew” in society and how that image established an ideology of hate that eventually led to the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, a devastated France continued this ideology of antisemitism that set the stage for a modern wave of anti-Jewish sentiment and attacks.
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryCanada, France, Israel
- NoteFrench w/English Subtitles
- DirectorIlan Ziv
A vitally important film covering a universal and unfortunately ongoing issue…Tracing the insidious origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the 1894 Dreyfus Affair to the present day, this film delves deeply and intellectually into the depiction of “the Jew” in society and how that image established an ideology of hate that eventually led to the Holocaust. In the aftermath of the war, a devastated France continued this ideology of antisemitism that set the stage for a modern wave of anti-Jewish sentiment and attacks.
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryCanada, France, Israel
- NoteFrench w/English Subtitles
- DirectorIlan Ziv