The 19th century and the Dreyfus affair, the origins of anti-Semitism. “Hate of the Jews will be grafted onto a pseudo-scientific discourse to decree that there is a Semitic race, which would be inferior, but above all dangerous” It was in 1873 that the German journalist Wilhelm Marr coined the neologism “anti-Semitism” “The industrial revolution will allow certain Jews to rise in the social ladder and through the figure of the Rothschilds, we will associate the Jew with money”