<p>Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library</p><p>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.</p><p>It was 1894 and printing presses were faster than ever before. France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted, and then along came the Dreyfus affair: a public shouting match that followed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1906/jul/13/france">wrongful conviction</a> for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a 36-year-old French army captain.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/04/london-wiener-holocaust-library-dreyfus-affair-antisemitism">Continue reading...</a>
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‘The point was to dehumanise’: London Holocaust archive examines world’s first ‘viral’ antisemitism scandal
<p>Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library</p><p>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.</p><p>It was 1894 and printing presses were faster than ever before. France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted, and then along came the Dreyfus affair: a public shouting match that followed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1906/jul/13/france">wrongful conviction</a> for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a 36-year-old French army captain.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/04/london-wiener-holocaust-library-dreyfus-affair-antisemitism">Continue reading...</a>