Documentary

A History of Antisemitism

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First Aired:April 12, 2022

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:4

Status:Ended

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

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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

Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci

Self - Historian

Maurice Kriegel

Self - Historian

Robert Jan van Pelt

Self - Historian

Seasons

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

E1In the Beginning: 38-1144

53m7.0

Apr 12, 2022

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

E2Rejection: 1144-1791

53m6.3

Apr 12, 2022

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.

E3Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945

53m6.7

Apr 12, 2022

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".

E4The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today

53m6.3

Apr 12, 2022

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.