1st Edition

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

Edited By Esther Webman Copyright 2011
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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 Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust, it continues, even in our time, to... Read more

Part 1: Introduction  1. Hate and Absurdity: The Impact of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Esther Webman  Part 2: Revisiting the Origins of the Protocols  2. Toward the Prehistory of the Protocols: Iustin’ia Dmitrievna Glinka and her Letter to Emperor Alexander III Lev Aronov, Henryk Baran and Dmitri Zubarev  3. The Enemy of Humanity: The Protocols’ Paradigm in Nineteenth-Century Russian Mentality Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern  Part 3: The Impact of the Protocols since the 1920s until the End of World War II  4. Why the Jews? The Impact of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Nazi Ideology and Policy Wolfram Meyer zu Uptrup  5. Philosemites Embracing the Protocols? American Fundamentalist Christians and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Yaakov Ariel  6. Hugo Wast and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Argentina Graciela Ben-Dror  7. Political Dissemination of the Judeo−Masonic Conspiracy Theory and the Outbreak of La Violencia in Colombia, 1920−1946 Thomas J. Williford  Part 4: The Appeal of the Protocols after World War II  8. The Re-emergence of The Protocols of the Elders Of Zion in Łódź, 1968 Beate Kosmala  9. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Internet: How Radical Political Groups Are Networked via Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Juliane Wetzel  10. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Japan David G. Goodman  11. Adoption of the Protocols in the Arab Discourse on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Zionism, and the Jews Esther Webman  12. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Iranian Political and Cultural Discourse Orly R. Rahimiyan  13. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Turkey Rifat N. Bali  14. Rationalizing the Hidden Hand: ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Masiri’s Theory of the "Judaization of Society" Goetz Nordbruch  Part 5: The Protocols on Trial  15. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Court: The Bern Trials, 1933−1937 Michael Hagemeister  16. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in South Africa: From Radical White Right to Radical Islamists Milton Shain  17. The Case of the Brazilian Revisionist S.E. Castan Luiz Nazario

Biography

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.