‘The point was to dehumanise’: London Holocaust archive examines world’s first ‘viral’ antisemitism scandal

Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library It was the world’s first experience of antisemitism “gone viral”, said Barbara Warnock, co-director of the oldest Holocaust archive, the Wiener Holocaust Library, in London. It was 1894 and printing presses were faster than ever before. France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted…