‘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 LibraryIt 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, and then along…