“J’Accuse!” novelist Emile Zola declared in 1898 in an open letter accusing the French government of antisemitism for its prosecution of a Jewish officer framed for treason, Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

History fated Emile Zola and Alfred Dreyfus to forever be footnotes in each other’s stories. Dreyfus, a military officer wrongly convicted of treason, sparked an antisemitism scandal that split French ...

Any controversy that might erupt over Roman Polanski’s decision to implicitly equate himself with one of history’s greatest victims of injustice is dissipated by the resultant film’s tepid ...

In his latest Bastiat’s Window post, Bob Graboyes explores a very interesting connection — between Émile Zola’s J’Accuse and the talk that writer Bari Weiss gave recently to a Federalist Society ...

On this day in 1898, J’Accuse…!” is published in the newspaper L’Aurore. Written by Émile Zola in response to the events of the Dreyfus affair, Zola addressed the president of France, Félix Faure, and ...

On the 125th anniversary of “J’Accuse,” a picture book for older kids places the lives of Alfred Dreyfus and Émile Zola side by side. By Michael Rosen When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

On Jan. 13, 1898, French writer Emile Zola published an open letter to the president of France accusing the government of anti-Semitism in the conviction of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus for passing secrets to ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Emile Zola published his famous 4,500-word essay, “J’Accuse ...

Gary Willig is a member of the Arutz Sheva news staff. The Jewish people are used to lies being spread about them. Nearly a millennium ago, the first of many blood libels accusing the Jews of ...

On Jan. 13, 1898, on the front page of the French daily “L’Aurore” (Dawn), novelist Emile Zola addressed an open letter to Felix Faure, the president of France. In it, he accused those he considered ...