A History of Antisemitism

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  1. In the Beginning: 38-1144

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  A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.

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  2. Rejection: 1144-1791

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  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.

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  3. Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945

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  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".

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  4. The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today

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  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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Christian Gonon

Self - Narrator (voice)

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David Nirenberg

Self - Historian

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Nathalie Cohen

Self - Historian

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Peter Schäfer

Self - Historian

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Antoine Guggenheim

Self - Theologist

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Joël Kotek

Self - Historian

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Alain Vanier

Self - Psychoanalyst

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Sylvie-Anne Goldberg

Self - Historian

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Brian A. Catlos

Self - Historian

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Ghaleb Bencheikh

Self - Islamologist

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Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

Self - Anthropologist

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Sarah Lipton

Self - Historian