A lie and a libel : the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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A lie and a libel : the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Title remainder

the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Statement of responsibility

Binjamin W. Segel ; Richard S. Levy, translator and editor

Creator

• Segel, B. W

Contributor

• Levy, Richard S

Subject

• Antisemitism -- History
• History
• Protocols of the wise men of Zion

Genre

• History

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Protocols of the wise men of Zion
• Welt-Krieg, Welt-Revolution, Welt-Verschwörung, Welt-Oberregierung

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.892/4

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

DS145.P7

LC item number

S43 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography