« Alfred Dreyfus, Truth and Justice », Sensitive Hell – Liberation
Three-quarters of the print are busy, overloaded, by bodies of men in a black jacket shy and applauding the balcony of a performance hall. The wood engraving is of Felix Vallotton, it is called the patriotic verse. It dates from 1893, a year before the condemnation of Dreyfus for high treason, after an expeditious trial based on false mounted from scratch by the staff of the army. Front -based and open Gules, she summons the nationalist and anti -Semitic climate of the Pas so Belle Epoque, at the heart of the new exhibition of the Museum of Art and History of Judaism, « Alfred Dreyfus, Truth and Justice ».
The MAHJ had devoted a first exhibition to the Dreyfus affair in 2006, to the centenary of the captain’s rehabilitation. Nineteen years later, it comes back to it, since it is necessary, since the case is still in 2025 the subject of conspiracy readings and since it is still necessary to « Respond to new hate merchants », writes Paul Salmona, the director of the institution, in the preface to the catalog (« It’s troubled this story », « We will never know », dared Eric Zemmour in 2021). The exhibition also updates the story of the case in the light of the most recent research, those in particular of the historian
