alfred dreyfus

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Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus Affair movie ‘An Officer and a Spy’ finally opens in the US

Dreyfus doesn’t shine but the lessons of the affair do, write two scholars about the long-delayed movie.

French President Emmanuel Macron, third from right, visits the Dreyfus Museumin Medan near Paris, on Oct. 26, 2021. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

The Alfred Dreyfus affair shocked Jews in France. Now there’s a museum devoted to it.

The new institution is housed in the former home of Émile Zola, a non-Jewish writer who led the fight against the army captain’s antisemitic persecution on bogus spying charges.

In protest rallies, tens of thousands of Jews in France and beyond demand ‘justice for Sarah Halimi’

The series of demonstrations are over the decision not to try a Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor.

Michael Freilich, wearing a kippah, attending a meeting with federal lawmakers and pro-Palestinian activists in Brussels, Belgium on Nov, 7, 2019. (Inge Verhelst/Belgian Federal Parliament)

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Belgian daily accuses Jewish lawmaker of spying for Israel

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France to open Dreyfus museum at Emil Zola House, historian says

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French Jews slam Israeli defense chief’s remarks on leaving for Israel, Dreyfus trial

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France rejects Israeli defense chief’s comparison of Paris peace summit to Dreyfus trial

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French, Dutch towns commemorate Alfred Dreyfus and Holocaust survivor Jules Schelvis

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National Front mayor evicts Dreyfus-inspired anti-racism group

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Dreyfus letter to be sold at Paris auction

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