It may not feature much in this pandemic-themed archive, but it is worth pausing to acknowledge the relentless anti-Semitism of the Viennese satirical journal Kikeriki. In 1897 there was news of an outbreak of plague in India, sparking fears that it would make an appearance in Europe. The tenth international sanitary conference was held in Venice that same year, devoted to discussion of bubonic plague.
Entitled “Measures against the plague,” the cartoon depicts a gate into Austria with a sign above it: “The way to the East.”
Kikeriki: “The best thing would be to lock the doors, but that won’t do, the traffic is too large.”
(Kikeriki, Vienna, 1897)
Another egregious example a decade later.
Sic Transit Pestilentia 