Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire

Historians have generally assumed that the French Dreyfus Affair had no counterpart in turn-of the-century Germany. However, while no single anti-Semitic trial in Germany had the social and political impact of the Dreyfus Affair, a series of sensational court cases did have a significant influence on the growth and development of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany. These trials, which included prominent libel cases and several ritual murder accusations, frequently spurred debates in the Germ...