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Dreyfus letter fetches nearly $500,000 at Paris auction

A letter handwritten by Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish soldier who was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, was sold at auction for nearly half a million dollars.

Dreyfus letter to be sold at Paris auction

A letter written by Alfred Dreyfus, a French-Jewish soldier who was wrongfully convicted of spying, is expected to fetch at least $130,000 at an auction in Paris.

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More than a century ago, Theodor Herzl was a prominent Europeanjournalist who lived in Vienna and was essentially a Jewish assimilationist. He wasn't much concerned about Jewish life or identity. As an intellectual, he considered himself a citizen of Europe.

Then came the assignment that would change his life, and world Jewry, forever.