The Truth about "The Protocols of Zion": A Complete Exposure

Examines the origins of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Its main source was Maurice Joly's satire "Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu" (1864). Joly's text was used by the antisemitic German writer Hermann Goedsche who wrote the novel "To Sedan" as part of the "Biarritz" series in 1868. Part of the novel, rewritten by Goedsche as "The Rabbi's Speech" and published in Russian in 1872 under the title "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel", contains a speech allegedly delivered before "elders of Israel" in Prague. The "Protocols" was concocted in France and published in Russia in order to convince the Tsar that the Jews were the source of revolutionary unrest in Russia and to dissuade him from introducing a constitution. Sergei Nilus and Butmi were the first publishers of the "Protocols", which gained worldwide circulation before it was exposed as a forgery in the 1920s. Pp. 73-397 contain the English text of Joly's "Dialogues" and of the "Protocols", Goedsche's "Jewish Cemetery" and "Rabbi's Speech", Nilus' epilogue to the "Protocols", a 1921 London "Times" exposé, and several pages of parallel texts of the "Dialogue" and the "Protocols".