



This event, which became known as the Dreyfus Affair, sparked. In response, a plague of Anti-Semitism ran through France, where civillians in the street chanted “Death to the Jews!” In one 1894 incident, a Jewish officer in the French army named Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused and convicted of treason. Though Zionism originated in eastern and central Europe in the latter part of the 19th century, it is in many ways a continuation of. Though, as a result of pressure on the French government to reopen the case, the investigation resumed. Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews (Hebrew: Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel). French military documents had been given to German agents, and a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus had been falsely charged with the crime. A new 1937 edition had a much higher impact, and three further editions in the following months sold 60,000. page needed The book however had little impact until the mid-1930s. Fascist politician Giovanni Preziosi published the first Italian edition of the Protocols in 1921. Despite multiple instances of his innocence being proved, Dreyfus was in solitary confinement for almost five years, and the case was determined closed. Alfred Rosenberg's 1923 edition 'gave a forgery a huge boost'. But in November of 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain of the French army, was accused of being a spy against France and was sentenced to life in prison. Under Napoleon's rule in France, the Jewish population were finally considered citizens, therefore ensuring the Jews hopes that discrimination and suspicion against them as a people would subside.
