dreyfus trial

‘An Officer and a Spy’ tells a gripping tale of 19th-century espionage

Now 86 and still as sharp as ever, Polanski was born to a Jewish father who survived concentration camps and a partly Jewish mother murdered at Auschwitz.

“Most of the people who harass me do not know me and know nothing about the case.”

The convicted child rapist is expected to begin shooting the movie later this year.

"They accused him because he was a Jew," Logvinskyi said. "He didn't do anything wrong."

Connecting French and Jewish history with current French-Jewish relations, Netanyahu stressed the values both people share.

By Ro’i Hen, Artistic direction by Yevgeny Arye, Gesher Theater, October 15

Some 40 broadsides, posters and videos documenting the drama are now on display at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.

Over a century later, the Dreyfus affair continues to hold lessons about justice, racism, human rights and the role of the media.

The Dreyfus exhibition at Beit Hatfutsot will focus on anti-Semitism in France then and now, and on famous French Jews.