He’s named after his grandfather Alfred Dreyfus (not that one)
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Culture To understand the blindness of our Supreme Court, look to the land of Alfred Dreyfus
As France burns, we can witness the consequences of so-called 'race neutrality'
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Culture She was the most famous Jewish actress of all time — can we still say she was the greatest?
Sarah Bernhardt wowed audiences with her performances as Shylock and Hamlet, but a century later only scant evidence of her genius remains.
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Film & TV A fascinating new documentary shows how antisemitic lies were the ‘original fake news’
'The Conspiracy' director Maxim Pozdorovkin on why the myth of Jewish control is so durable
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Culture Sketches of Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus’ trials open a window to a scandalous past
History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French society into factions. Zola, the celebrated writer who penned the famed pro-Dreyfus open letter “J’Accuse,” would face legal trouble of his own for doing so….
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Film & TV Can we separate Roman Polanski’s excellent new film from its director’s contemptible past?
“An Officer and a Spy,” Roman Polanski’s 2019 movie about the Dreyfus Affair, is spare, modern and steeped in controversy. If it weren’t for the horses and high boots, you’d forget you’re watching the past. If it weren’t for the fact that Polanski directed it, you would have seen it by now. The movie does…
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The Schmooze Convicted Rapist Roman Polanski Will Rehash Dreyfus Affair In ‘J’Accuse’
Sometimes you need a large amount of bile in a short period of time — for, say, a home improvement project, or a reenactment of medieval medical practices Let’s make our own! We’ll start by reading this news: Roman Polanski, who in 1977 pled guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl — he had, he later…
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Culture More Than 120 Years Later, ‘Dreyfus Affair’ Still Resonates
The infamous story of the 1894 conspiracy against French Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason is being dramatized at Brooklyn’s BAM Fisher in a multi-media production, “The Dreyfus Affair,” based on texts and music from that period. The performance by The Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) includes excerpts from the politically charged opera “La…
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