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Oct 1, 2020 · The Dreyfus Affair became a critical moment in time. It would shake the French state to its core. France in the late nineteenth century was considered one of the most enlightened and progressive ...
Jul 3, 2015 · An encore of a conversation with Ben and Emily Dreyfuss, the adult children of actor Richard Dreyfuss, after they re-watched Jaws. This story originally aired on Morning Edition on July 8, 2014.
Mar 8, 2021 · He fought in solidarity with the Paris Commune of 1871, met Karl Marx to write the programme of the French Workers Party in 1880, went into exile, frequented the most famous leaders of international socialism (Jean Jaurès, Filippo Turati, Wilhelm Liebknecht,…) and finally became Minister of the French Republic in 1914.
Nov 9, 2009 · In December 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason by a military court-martial and sentenced to life in prison for his alleged crime of passing military secrets to the Germans.
Theodor Herzl [a] (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) [3] was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, lawyer, writer, playwright and political activist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Due to his Zionist work, he is ...
Jul 14, 2006 · When evidence was found indicating that someone had been passing secrets to the Germans, Dreyfus, the only Jew in the army’s high command, was accused. Dreyfus was found guilty of high treason ...
Oct 22, 2021 · He organized the first Zionist Congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland and a year later made his famous prediction that the Jewish people would have a state of their own in 50 years.
