Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,2 (2012) 180-208
Keywords:
Steed, Henry Wickham,
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Times (London, England)
;
Protocols of the wise men of Zion
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Zionism
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), then editor-in-chief of "The Times", adopted an ambiguous position with regard to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in 1920, when the text first appeared in English. His review in "The Times" neither endorsed nor rejected it, but instead mused on whether it might be authentic. Although later Steed agreed that the "Protocols" was a forgery, he, like many of his contemporaries, believed in a Jewish world conspiracy and in a "Jewish hand" in the Russian revolution. His reputation as an antisemite had been well established in the pre-World War I period. However, Steed was an ardent Zionist and one of the earliest and most vocal of Hitler's critics. Argues that it was Steed's visceral Germanophobia that lay at the heart of his antisemitism. Until the advent of the Third Reich, Steed identified Jews with Germans and with German interests. On the basis of his hatred toward Germany and Hitler, in the late 1930s Steed succeeded in being reconciled with British Jews and Jewish refugees from Germany.
DOI:
10.1080/0031322X.2012.672226
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