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Culture Roman Polanski’s take on the Dreyfus Affair is perfect for 2025. That’s the problem
The movie wants to investigate conspiratorial mindsets. What it actually does is darker, and more frightening
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Culture 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 Learning about antisemitism from the people who fought it
A London exhibit at the Wiener Holocaust Library examines the historical context of the world's oldest hatred
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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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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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