ISBN:
0803292457
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 148 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. print
Year of publication:
1995
Series Statement:
Bison books
Uniform Title:
Welt-Krieg, Welt-Revolution, Welt-Verschwörung, Welt-Oberregierung
DDC:
305.892/4
Keywords:
Protocols of the wise men of Zion
;
Protokolle der Weisen von Zion
;
Antisemitisme
;
Protocollen van de wijzen van Sion
;
Antisemitismus
;
Geschichte
;
Antisemitism History
;
Antisemitismus
;
Protokolle der Weisen von Zion
;
Antisemitismus
Abstract:
A strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a clumsy forgery purporting to be evidence of the supposed Jewish plot to rule the world. Though it has been exposed as a forgery, some apprentice brownshirt is always rediscovering it, the latest in a line of gullibility that includes, most famously, Henry Ford. Recently it has been translated into Japanese and circulates once again with renewed virulence in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In 1924 in Germany the Jewish author and journalist Binjamin Segel wrote a major historical expose of the fraud and later edited his work into a shorter form, published as Welt-Krieg, Welt-Revolution, Welt-Verschworung, Welt-Oberregierung (Berlin 1926). Translator Richard S. Levy, a specialist on the history of antisemitism, provides an extensive introduction on the circumstances of Segel's work and the story of the Protocols up to the 1990s, including an explanation of its continuing psychological appeal and political function.
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