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Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:05 AM Aug 2024

(Jewish Group) French Director Michel Hazanavicius Voices Fears Over Rising Antisemitism: "How Could I have Become So Ev

French Director Michel Hazanavicius Voices Fears Over Rising Antisemitism: "How Could I have Become So Evil In Such A Short Time?"

Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Michel Hazanavicius has voiced his fears over rising antisemitism in a heart-felt opinion piece in France's Le Monde newspaper.

The French-born director is descended from Jewish grandparents who fled persecution in Lithuania and Poland in the 1920s, making a new life in France, to then find themselves on the run again during World War Two.

The director – whose black and white silent movie The Artist won five Oscars in 2012 – has said in the past that he was raised in a family that identified as Jewish but was not religious.

In his opinion piece, Hazanavicius said that until recently his Jewishness had been just one aspect of his identity, to which he did not give much thought, but this was now changing.

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