A lie and a libel : the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion / Binjamin W. Segel ; Richard S. Levy, translator & editor. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segel, B. W.

Contributor:

Levy, Richard S.

Standardized Title:

Welt-Krieg, Welt-Revolution, Welt-Verschwörung, Welt- Oberregierung. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Protocols of the wise men of Zion.

Antisemitism--History.

Antisemitism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p. )

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-32066-7