S01E01 In the Beginning: 38-1144
A history of anti-Jewish feeling from ancient Alexandria to the crusades.
A History of Antisemitism
S01E02: Rejection: 1144-1791
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.
Overview
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
Episodes
S01E02 Rejection: 1144-1791
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...
S01E03 Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945
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".
S01E04 The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today
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.
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
