{"product_id":"the-paranoid-apocalypse-a-hundredyear-retrospective-on-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-9780814748923","title":"The Paranoid Apocalypse  A HundredYear","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a fresh take on present day issues such as Israel and the \"new Anti-Semitism\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA timely and important volume that ought to be essential reading for students and scholars alike. The Shoah did not begin with concentration camps and trains. It began with words and ideas. The lies of the Protocols played a key role in marginalizing and dehumanizing European Jewry, paving the way for their brutal extermination. Remarkably, in the contemporary context, the Protocols are once again becoming widely used as effective propaganda, especially throughout much of the Middle East. . . . This text provides an interdisciplinary, high calibre, scholarly analysis of a subject matter that is under-studied and of profound importance. -- Charles Asher Small,Former Executive Director of the Yale Intiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism\u003cbr\u003eA set of thoughtful essays that examine the origins and absurd persistence of this influential forgery, informative assessments of the anti-Semitic conspiratorial imagination in Europe, Japan, the United States and in the Middle East, and lively debates about the way Western and Jewish intellectuals have responded to the recent forms in which the old hatred has found expression. -- Jeffrey Herf,author of The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propagandad During World War II and the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction Richard Landes and Steven T. KatzPart I.  2 The Melian Dialogue, the Protocols, and the Paranoid Imperative Richard Landes 3 The Apocalyptic Other Charles B. StrozierPart II.  4 The Devil's Hoofs Jeffrey R. Woolf 5 Thomas of Monmouth and the Protocols of the Sages of Narbonne Johannes HeilPart III. 6 \"The Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility\" Michael Hagemeister 7 Protocols of the Elders of Zion Jeffrey Mehlman 8 \"Jewish World Conspiracy\" and the Question of Secular Religions Paul Zawadski 9 The Turning Point David RedlesPart IV.  10 The Protocols in Japan David G. Goodman 11 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookPart V.  12 Anti-Semitism from Outer Space Michael Barkun 13 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Contemporary American Scene Deborah Lipstadt 14 Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right Chip BerletPart VI.  15 Conspiracy Then and Now Stephen Eric Bronner  16 Jewish Self-Criticism, Progressive Moral Schadenfreude, and the Suicide of Reason Richard Landes About the Contributors  Index","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405887873367,"sku":"9780814748923","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814748923.jpg?v=1730493809","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-paranoid-apocalypse-a-hundredyear-retrospective-on-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion-9780814748923","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}