A History of Antisemitism

Name: A History of Antisemitism
Released: 2022-04-12
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Christian Gonon, David Nirenberg, Nathalie Cohen, Peter Schäfer, Antoine Guggenheim

6.8

April 12, 2022

1 Season • 4 Episodes

Ended

Documentary

Overview

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

Created By

Laurent Jaoui, Judith Cohen Solal, Jonathan Hayoun

Cast

Christian Gonon

Self - Narrator (voice)

David Nirenberg

Self - Historian

Nathalie Cohen

Self - Historian

Peter Schäfer

Self - Historian

Episodes

1. In the Beginning: 38-1144

April 12, 2022 • 53m

A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.

7.0

2. Rejection: 1144-1791

April 12, 2022 • 53m

1144 - 1791: the gradual dehumanisation of the Jewish people, from the first "Jewish nose" in Christian painting and the stereotype of the "rich usurer" to the expulsion of the Jews from the great kingdoms of Europe.

6.3

3. Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945

April 12, 2022 • 53m

Liberty, equality, fraternity? The French Revolution gave European Jews hope that discrimination would end. However, political movements and pseudo-scientific trends generated new forms hatred of Jews, under a new term: "anti-Semitism".

6.7

4. The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today

April 12, 2022 • 53m

How is antisemitism still possible after Auschwitz? After the war, the Nazi horror is gradually brought to light in all its terrifying dimensions. However, the anti-Semitic Phoenix rises from its ashes once again.

6.3

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