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A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" [Hardcover]

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In this book, Bronner (political science and comparative literature, Rutgers Univ.), who won the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism, places The Protocols of the Elders of Zion within a broader framework, arguing effectively that acceptance of the notorious forgery had as much to do with reactions against liberalism and democracy as it did with anti-Semitism. According to the author, the popularity of the Protocols stemmed from political anti-Semitism, linking Jews to the "evils" of the Enlightenment (from the viewpoint of the reactionaries), rather than the usual religious and social reasons for anti-Semitism. Although it does not replace Norman Cohn's Warrant for Genocide (Serif, 1998), which remains the standard English-language source on the early history of the Protocols, this book makes an original and valuable contribution to the literature. (Readers might be interested to know that Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhine has determined that Mathieu Golovinski was the author of the infamous Protocols.) For some reason, the CIP for this book uses the subheading "juvenile literature," which it is not. Recommended for Judaica and intellectual history collections. --John A. Drobnicki, York Coll., CUNY
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a work purporting to be the text of a secret plan by the Jews to enslave Christian civilization under a new world order, run by the leading elders of Zion. The tract was written by the Russian secret police in 1903 and was translated into a multitude of languages; international sales of the tract were astronomical during the 1920s and 1930s. Bronner begins with 24 selections from the Protocols that should provide a sense of what fascists considered important about the tract. The author examines premodern religious bigotry in which Christians believed that Jews were working together with the devil, and he recounts the story behind the fabrication of the Protocols. Bronner, a professor of political science and comparative literature at Rutgers University, discusses what he calls the "career" of the tract; how it inspired pogroms and other anti-Semitic acts by fanatics in the last century. The book's final chapter examines contemporary anti-Semitism. George Cohen
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  • Reading level: Ages 9-12
  • Hardcover: 177 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312218044
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312218041
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars the best history of the Protocols and its ramifications, April 14, 2000
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With the whole tzuriss over the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" reaching such a boiling point, I wish to recommend this excellent history of the topic. Rutgers Political Science Professor, Stephen Eric Bronner, whose parents fled Nazi Germany and settled in the German Jewish enclave of Washington Heights in Manhattan, provides this remarkable analysis into the antecedents of THE PROTOCOLS, the reasons it was published in 1903 by the Russian Imperial Secret Police, the groups that used the Protocols for their political ends, the legal suit that was brought against the book in the 1930's in Switzerland, the early opponents to this popular fictitious Antisemitic tract, and the current state of antisemitism, whether it be social, religious (judeophobia), or political.
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17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Clarifying and Alarming, April 26, 2000
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Mr. Bronner's book not only manages to crystalize the reason for the forgery but explains the rationale for how the historical remainder of the 20th century proceeded as a result of the "Protocols.." No small feat. In addition, the book is made more valuable because the author doesn't get self conscious about being too objective. Normally, being slightly subjective would detract from a scholarly work such as this. Instead it brings the clarity and understanding the topic truly deserves. If you really want to understand antisemitism without the usual variety of historical apologetics, this is the work to read. The bar has been raised, writers!
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Manifesto of Antisemitism, June 28, 2008
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Bronner calls this infamous forgery The Manifesto of Antisemitism. The cause of much violence and bloodshed, the Protocols targeted Jews and Freemasons; it remains the most notorious conspiracy of all time. The text represents a risible level of discourse characterized by tortured prose, lack of logic, banal stereotypes & imagery plus projection of pathological proportions. Its value ultimately resides in the insight it gives into the psychology of antisemitism.

Part 2 provides selections from the text. Stylistic similarities to contemporary conspiracy theories like those of the 911 Troofers jump hissing and snarling at the reader. Whilst it is primarily an attack on enlightenment values, its portrayal of Jews as omnipotent is significant. The word "goyim" appears all over and implies a helpless flock of sheep. Nowadays it's cattle as I learnt from a recent encounter with a conspiracist. Goats next I suppose, if the Ayatollah Khomeini would kindly permit.

Part 3 looks at varieties of antisemitism, the cultural atmosphere of the time and the rejection of modernity. Judeophobia existed in classical antiquity, infected Christianity soon after its birth and triumphed along with the victory of the Constantine version. It is present in the foundational texts of both Islam and Christianity in a web of contradictions, historical impossibilities, suspiciously vivid imagery and venomous language which is the very opposite of the authentic words of Jesus, as far as those can be identified.

The roots of the calumnies are in the New Testament, from deicide to blood libel to replacement theology. A series of "saints" like Melito of Sardis, Tertullian, Chrysostom and Augustine as well as the reformer Martin Luther kept Anti-Judaism alive or inflamed the hatred. These powerful myths & images eventually entered the collective subconscious of the West. They migrated to Christianity's secular Salvationist offspring like nationalism, fascism, socialism and the First Church of the Boiling Globe.

By integrating the existing religious, social and political dimensions of Anti-Judaism and associating prominent trends of modernity with "the Jewish spirit" the Protocols rearranged the DNA of the virus to help produce the genocidal race-based mutation embraced by Hitler. Antisemitism's move from the traditionalist & counterrevolutionary side to the anti-establishment and revolutionary infused the phenomenon with an apocalyptic impulse. It eventually took on all the characteristics that the Protocols ascribed to the Jews: the desire for a Leader, chauvinism, racism and revolutionary totalitarianism: the seeds of genocide.

Part 4 investigates its origin and permutations from 1890 to 1913. Most likely compiled between 1894 & 1898, the text first appeared in a Russian newspaper in 1903. Most of the text was plagiarized from Dialogue in Hell: Conversations between Machiavelli and Montesquieu by Maurice Joly, a 1864 book critical of Machiavelli.

Part 5 traces its path to fame, initially as bridge between the romantic nostalgia of the old right & the neo-romantic racial obsession of the new. Fascism as Salvationist movement promised to end class conflict, economic chaos and the threat of anarchy; it also infused antisemitism with a new missionary zeal. Fascist organizations across Europe promoted the pamphlet; even churches endorsed it. It was published by newspapers worldwide, French writers like Celine loved it, Henry Ford sponsored its publication in America, it inspired Ezra Pound and "Father" Charles Coughlin used it in his broadcasts. Its popularity lasted through the 1920s and the next decade.

Contemporary antisemitism is examined in the final chapter. Since the publication of this book in 2000 the plague has returned with alarming intensity in virulent new strains. It appears to me as if the author is aware of a new variety but is unwilling to name it. Bronner believes that antimodernism and Judeophobia are twins and that Jews are safest in cosmopolitan cultures with powerful liberal institutions. After having read Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinski I am not convinced of the idea's universal validity anymore.

He warns against postmodern interpretations of the Protocols, arguing that claims must be measured with reference to empirical reality. Amen! This would have been the ideal place to use those "verboten" words: Liberal Antisemitism. Suspicion of conservatives and "the right" permeates the book. I respectfully disapprove of such bias. Of course there are some ghoulish things on the right like the Paleotards but postmodernism is not on their menu of abominations.

The author's distrust of Christianity is understandable but like Abraham Foxman he ignores the threat from the religious left that is openly hostile to Israel. Jimmy Carter is just as scary as the Paleotards but far more dangerous and destructive. Traditional American Christianity contains Philosemitic strains that will forever stick closer than a sibling to both the State of Israel and the diaspora community. Never underestimate the power of archetypes, in this case Ruth who clung to Naomi.

Penultimately, the unwarranted agonizing in The Vanishing Jew wearies the soul. Bronner is concerned about " ... an eschatological orthodoxy and an expansionist xenophobic Zionism" that holds the constitutional state and multicultural society in contempt. Maybe a tiny minority like that exists but there has been almost no evidence of such attitudes in the USA or Israel where the rule of law stands firm in the face of terrorism and escalating existential threats. As for multiculturalism, I'm sure he means positive qualities like tolerance, mutual respect and the intellectual/spiritual riches to be gained from cultural sharing.

On the other hand the word is rapidly acquiring sinister shades of meaning on account of the type of fruit it is bearing in Europe. Since it is a matter of definitions, I highly recommend the illuminating books Icarus Fallen and Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century by the French philosopher Chantal Delsol. It is also thus with his use of the word liberalism by which I am convinced he means classical liberalism. Without the adjective the meaning is in a process of shape shifting - just like antisemitism which is a champion shape shifter - according to Nick Cohen in What's Left or Jonah Goldberg in Liberal Fascism.
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