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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Émile Zola

French President Emmanuel Macron (R), flanked by president of the Maison Zola-Musee Dreyfus association Louis Gautier (C) and journalist Emile Zola's great-granddaughter's Martine Le Blond-Zola (L), visits the Dreyfus Museum, on the property of the Emile Zola house in Medan, near Paris, on October 26, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)
October 27, 2021, 5:23 am
France opens world’s first museum dedicated to Dreyfus affair
Exhibition part of center dedicated to Emile Zola, who famously defended the wrongfully accused Jewish captain over a century ago, in a trial that was profoundly impactful for Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Yael Perl-Ruiz, the great-grandaughter of Alfred Dreyfus gave an interview to i24News, May 26, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)
May 27, 2020, 1:51 am
Dreyfus’s great-granddaughter ‘horrified’ at comparison by Netanyahu supporters
Yael Perl-Ruiz rejects attempt to draw parallel with PM’s corruption trial, which ‘cheapens the symbolic significance’ of the Dreyfus affair
By ToI Staff
Alfred Dreyfus in the Villemarie Garden, Carpentras 1899-1900. (Dreyfus Family Collection)
August 30, 2019, 8:03 am
The Dreyfus affair: The story behind Polanski’s film
Jewish French army captain convicted — and later exonerated — of spying for the Germans in late 19th century; case famously exposed anti-Semitism in France at the time
By AFP
A statue of Alfred Dreyfus is erected in Mulhouse, France, October 21, 2016. (Screenshot)
September 22, 2018, 9:50 pm
France to open Dreyfus museum at Emil Zola House, historian says
Site for wrongly persecuted Jewish army officer to be inaugurated in fall 2019 in suburban Paris
By JTA
An inset of 'Portrait of Émile Zola' by Édouard Manet, 1868, which hangs at the Musée d'Orsay. (public domain)
March 9, 2017, 10:30 am
How Émile Zola’s role in the Dreyfus Affair irrevocably changed European politics
Anti-Semitism was the vogue and criticizing the state tantamount to treason, but a new book shows that when the French novelist wrote ‘J’accuse,’ he reshaped a nation
By JP O’ Malley
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet with Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom, including Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (bottom right) in London, September 9, 2015 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 11, 2015, 4:41 pm
Netanyahu rebuffs UK chief rabbi’s concern over settlements
Ephraim Mirvis says settlement expansion troubles Israel supporters in the UK; ‘settlements are not the issue,’ PM responds
By Elhanan Miller
Alfred Dreyfus in the Villemarie Garden, Carpentras 1899-1900. (Dreyfus Family Collection)
March 23, 2014, 12:40 pm
Alfred Dreyfus, through his love letters and sneakers
A new exhibit shows a different side of the victim/hero of the Dreyfus Affair — the private man his family remembers
By Debra Kamin
Alfred Dreyfus (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
May 30, 2013, 6:54 pm
Dreyfus letter sells for $492,000 at Paris auction
Grandson urges buyer to donate document to a museum
March 8, 2013, 8:52 pm
France posts documents from Dreyfus trial online
Notorious case proved pivotal in establishing political Zionism
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