• Director(s):

    HAYOUN (Jonathan)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, EFFERVESCENCE PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2022

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

The 19th century saw new forms of hostility emerge of a racial and political order, and the coining of a new term: Anti-Semitism. 

Then in the mid 19th century, the fate of an Italian Jewish child, Edgardo Mortara, who was forcibly baptized a Catholic, challenged the multi-secular authority of the Church and brought about a change in mentalities. The industrial age then gave rise to the modern notion of “economic antiSemitism”, along with the first caricature of the Jews as “masters of the world”. The Dreyfus Affair took the caricature into a new age, forcing the fight against anti-Semitism into the political arena. It became even more high-profile when the man responsible for the pogroms in Ukraine was assassinated in Paris and his killer went on trial. Then in the first half of the 20th century the process of exterminating all Jewish people was instigated, resulting in the Holocaust.