A lie and a libel
Subtitle: the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
By: Binjamin W. Segel ; Richard S. Levy, translator & editor.
Contributors: Levy, Richard S.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Protocols of the wise men of Zion; Antisemitism -- History
Other titles: Protocols of the wise men of Zion.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: A chronology of the Protocols -- Introduction : The political career of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- The history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- Notes on Segel’s text -- Appendix : the first Protocol.