Synopsis
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
Episodes
Season 11
In the Beginning: 38-1144A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.53m2
Rejection: 1144-17911144 - 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.53m3
Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945Liberty, 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".53m4
The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to TodayHow 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.53m
In the Beginning: 38-1144A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.53m2Rejection: 1144-17911144 - 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.53m3Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945Liberty, 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".53m4The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to TodayHow 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.53mCast
David NirenbergSelf - Historian
Nathalie CohenSelf - Historian
Peter SchäferSelf - Historian
Antoine GuggenheimSelf - Theologist
Joël KotekSelf - Historian
Alain VanierSelf - Psychoanalyst
Sylvie-Anne GoldbergSelf - Historian
Brian A. CatlosSelf - Historian
Ghaleb BencheikhSelf - Islamologist
Joanna Tokarska-BakirSelf - Anthropologist
Sarah LiptonSelf - Historian
