Caricature of Ranc as a man-headed alligator, bald and bearded, with a huge scaly body
A caricature of the Dreyfus-supporting newspaper editor Arthur Ranc. Photograph: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
A caricature of the Dreyfus-supporting newspaper editor Arthur Ranc. Photograph: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections
‘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, a co-director of the oldest Holocaust archive, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.