![]() Cover of the first book edition of The Great Within the Minuscule and Antichrist, in which the Protocols appeared as an appendix | |
Author | Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors |
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Original title | Программа завоевания мира евреями |
Language | Russian[a] |
Subject | Antisemitic conspiracy theory |
Genre | Antisemitism, black propaganda |
Publisher | Znamya |
Publication date | August–September 1903 |
Publication place | Russian Empire |
Published in English | 1919 |
Media type | Print: newspaper serialization |
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LC Class | DS145.P5 |
Text | The Protocols of the Elders of Zion at Wikisource |
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion[b][c] is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy.
The text was exposed as fraudulent by the British newspaper The Times in 1921 and by the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in 1924. Beginning in 1933, distillations of the work were assigned by some German teachers, as if they were factual, to be read by German schoolchildren throughout Nazi Germany.[1] It remains widely available in numerous languages, in print and on the Internet, and continues to be presented by antisemitic groups as a genuine document. It has been described as "probably the most influential work of antisemitism ever written".[2]
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