And the most hopeful parallel to our current moment comes not from American history, but rather from France in the late 19th century. The Dreyfus Affair — which involved the selling of military ...
The Dreyfus Affair evolved around the false arrest and imprisonment of the innocent Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a highly decorated French Jewish officer. Traumatic soul-searching ensued and ...
France Tuesday promoted Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general as an act of reparation in a notorious case of antisemitism that ...
The perpetrators of the October 7 massacre that shocked the civilised world remain largely beyond the reach of international prosecution.
In 1894, a French artillery captain named Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason based on a single piece of questionable handwritten evidence and a lot of antisemitic prejudice masquerading as ...
“J’Accuse . . . !” ran the headline of possibly the most famous newspaper column ever written, by Émile Zola in editor Georges Clemenceau’s Parisian newspaper L’Aurore in 1898. It furnished Roman ...
It was a cold January morning in 1895 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus stood in the cobbled courtyard of the École militaire. Flanked by soldiers, he was stripped of his rank, with his epaulets torn from ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum, New York, Sept. 13, 1987 through Jan. 15, 1988. siris_sil_343030 ...
The Dreyfus Affair evolved around the false arrest and imprisonment of the innocent Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), a highly decorated French Jewish officer. Traumatic soul-searching ensued and ...