The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies)
@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }“A set of thoughtful essays that examine the origins and absurd persistence of this influential forgery, informative assessments of the anti-Semitic conspiratorial imagination in Europe, Japan, the United States and in the Middle East, and lively debates about the way Western and Jewish intellectuals have responded to the recent forms in which the old hatred has found expression.”-Jeffrey Herf,author ofThe Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propagandad During World War II and the Holocaust@font-face { font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }“A timely and important volume that ought to be essential reading for students and scholars alike.  The Shoah did not begin with concentration camps and trains.  It began with words and ideas.  The lies of the Protocols played a key role in marginalizing and dehumanizing European Jewry, paving the way for their brutal extermination.  Remarkably, in the contemporary context, the Protocols are once again becoming widely used as effective propaganda, especially throughout much of the Middle East. . . .  This text provides an interdisciplinary, high calibre, scholarly analysis of a subject matter that is under-studied and of profound importance."-Charles Asher Small,Former Executive Director of the Yale Intiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism