A History of Antisemitism
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
Seasons
1. In the Beginning: 38-1144
Air Date: 2022-04-12
A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.
2. Rejection: 1144-1791
Air Date: 2022-04-12
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.
3. Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945
Air Date: 2022-04-12
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".
4. The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today
Air Date: 2022-04-12
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.
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Rating
6.8/10
Release Date
2022-04-12
Episodes
4 (1 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Christian Gonon
Self - Narrator (voice)
David Nirenberg
Self - Historian
Nathalie Cohen
Self - Historian
Peter Schäfer
Self - Historian
Antoine Guggenheim
Self - Theologist
Joël Kotek
Self - Historian
Alain Vanier
Self - Psychoanalyst
Sylvie-Anne Goldberg
Self - Historian
Brian A. Catlos
Self - Historian
Ghaleb Bencheikh
Self - Islamologist
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Self - Anthropologist
Sarah Lipton
Self - Historian
Production Companies
Effervescence Doc
ARTE