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Miniseries

Miniseries

Season 1

Miniseries

  • Air date:2022-04-12
  • User score:
    6.6
  • Number of episodes:4
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

List of Episodes

In the Beginning: 38-1144
S1E1
7.0

Air date: 2022-04-12

Runtime: 53 min

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

Rejection: 1144-1791
S1E2
6.3

Air date: 2022-04-12

Runtime: 53 min

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.

Emancipation to the Holocaust: 1791-1945
S1E3
6.7

Air date: 2022-04-12

Runtime: 53 min

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".

The New Face of Antisemitism: 1945 to Today
S1E4
6.3

Air date: 2022-04-12

Runtime: 53 min

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.

Top Cast

Christian Gonon

Christian Gonon

Self - Narrator (voice)

Robert Jan van Pelt

Robert Jan van Pelt

Self - Historian

Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter

Self - Lawyer

Michel Zlotowski

Michel Zlotowski

Additional voice (voice)

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