Alfred Dreyfus

Throughout Jewish history, there have been many events that have helped evolve the Jews as a nation. The exodus from Egypt, the destruction of the Temple, the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 and the Holocaust have all had profound effects on the Jews. One event which many people may not link which an advancement of Jewish history is the Dreyfus Affair of 1894. The Dreyfus Affair acted as a sort of watershed in Jewish history as many different …

…towards a Jewish State, Israel. Without the Affair, who knows if Israel would have been founded, because Herzl would not have written his book, and the idea of solving the Jewish problem of assimilation would not have been proposed. All in all, although the Affair was an unfortunate circumstance of events, looking back on it more than 100 years later, it was an important piece of history that our people would not be the same without.