(Jewish Group) Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for todays w
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Long-lost film that predicted rise of anti-Semitism has ominous message for todays world
BERLIN In Europe, anti-Semitism once again dominated this weeks news agenda.
On Monday, thousands marched in London against what they perceive to be blatant anti-Semitism in Britains mainstream Labour Party. The same day, the Paris prosecutors office said that it was investigating whether anti-Semitism was a motivation for the killing of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor last week. Anti-Semitic incidents in schools triggered a quest to find solutions all week in Germany. And in Poland, a renowned anti-racism activist was branded a traitor after speaking out against the nation's controversial anti-defamation law concerning Holocaust complicity.
Its against this backdrop that producers of a newly restored 1924 Austrian movie want their work to be seen.
Austrias national film archive has worked for over a year to carefully restore The City Without Jews, a pre-World War II silent film that served as a warning against the scapegoating of Jews at the time. The film which sparked furious reactions in the mid-1920s was believed to have been lost until a copy was discovered in a Paris flea market in 2015.
The film describes a fictional city in the 1920s, troubled by rising unemployment and poverty, and where resentments against Jews is mounting as people increasingly blame them for the citys woes. After a national law is passed to force all Jews to leave the country, residents celebrate only to soon realize that they are worse off than before. The law is eventually reversed.
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If you are craving some real-time anti-Semitism, simply scroll though the comment section. The first thing most of the Jew-haters bring up...Israel, usually a good predictor of an anti-Semite in a discussion about anti-Semitism.