The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth

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Esther Webman
Routledge, Mar 29, 2012 - History - 336 pages

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust, it continues, even in our time, to be influential.

Exploring the Protocols’ successful dissemination and impact around the world, this volume attempts to understand their continuing popularity, one hundred years after their first appearance, in so many diverse societies and cultures. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book covers themes such as:

  • Why have the Protocols survived to the present day and what are the sources from which they draw their strength?

  • What significance do the Protocols have today in mainstream worldviews?

  • Are they gaining in importance?

  • Are they still today a warrant for genocide or merely a reflection of xenophobic nationalism?

  • Can they be fought by logical argumentation?

This comprehensive volume which, for the first time, dwells also on the attraction of the Protocols in Arab and Muslim countries, will be of interest to specialists, teachers, and students working in the fields of antisemitism, the far right, Jewish studies, and modern history.

 

Contents

Toward the Prehistory of the Protocols Iustinia Dmitrievna Glinka and
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The Enemy of Humanity The Protocols Paradigm in NineteenthCentury
Why the Jews? The Impact of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Nazi
Philosemites Embracing the Protocols? American Fundamentalist
Hugo Wast and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Argentina
Political Dissemination of the JudeoMasonic Conspiracy Theory and
The ReEmergence of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion In Łódź 1968
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion On the Internet How Radical Political Groups
Adoption of the Protocols in the Arab Discourse on the ArabIsraeli
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Turkey
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Court The Bern Trials 19331937
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in South Africa From Radical White Right
The Case of the Brazilian Revisionist S E Castan
Bibliography
Index
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About the author (2012)

Esther Webman is a senior research fellow at the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is also head of the Zeev Vered Desk for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East in the Roth Institute.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth
EditorEsther Webman
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2012
ISBN1136706097, 9781136706097
Length336 pages
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