| A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Contributor(s): Segel, Binjamin W. (Author), Levy, Richard S. (Translator), Levy, Richard S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803292457 ISBN-13: 9780803292451 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 95010034 |
| Lexile Measure: 1320 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.36" W x 8.05" (0.42 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols, despite repeated exposure as a forgery. Binjamin W. Segel's work was the first full explanation of the shadowy sources for this virulent group libel. Richard S. Levy now adds an examination of the history of the Protocols since its original publication and describes its continuing psychological appeal and political function in the modern world. Richard S. Levy is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is the editor of Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts. |