Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Hate and Absurdity: The Impact of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 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 3. The Enemy of Humanity: The Protocols’ Paradigm in Nineteenth-Century Russian Mentality 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 5. Philosemites Embracing the Protocols? American Fundamentalist Christians and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 6. Hugo Wast and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Argentina 7. Political Dissemination of the Judeo−Masonic Conspiracy Theory and the Outbreak of La Violencia in Colombia, 1920−1946 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 9. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Internet: How Radical Political Groups Are Networked via Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories 10. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Japan 11. Adoption of the Protocols in the Arab Discourse on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Zionism, and the Jews 12. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Iranian Political and Cultural Discourse 13. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Turkey 14. Rationalizing the Hidden Hand: ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Masiri’s Theory of the "Judaization of Society" Part 5: The Protocols on Trial 15. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Court: The Bern Trials, 1933−1937 16. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in South Africa: From Radical White Right to Radical Islamists 17. The Case of the Brazilian Revisionist S.E. Castan

About the Author

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.