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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/19200-0.txt b/19200-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e44760b --- /dev/null +++ b/19200-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4451 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of a Lie, by Herman Bernstein + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of a Lie + 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' + +Author: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: September 8, 2006 [EBook #19200] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: This text has many notes in [square brackets] +which are in the original. Added for this electronic edition are +labels for footnotes and illustrations; the actual contents of +such are original. Also added are transcriptions (in the original +Cyrillic) of facsimile pages, and transliterations (into the Roman +alphabet, using the GOST system) of the same. An XHTML version with +the original facsimile images is also available. + +Any translations appear in the original paper edition. + +=Bold= and _italic_ passages are transcribed per this example.] + +THE HISTORY OF A LIE + +_“The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion”_ + +_“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”_ + —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. + +A STUDY +BY +HERMAN BERNSTEIN + +AUTHOR OF “WITH MASTER MINDS,” ETC. + +NEW YORK + +J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY +57 ROSE STREET + +COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY + + + + +_FOREWORD_ + + +_This is the history of a Lie—of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for +the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction, +by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, +who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was +gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of +the Russian secret police department and of the unscrupulous “Black +Hundreds” then utilized this fiction as the framework for the +“protocols” through which they sought to crush the Jews and prop up the +tottering Russian dynasty. + +Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, still dreaming of +their past glory and of a restoration of their privileges, are at work +again, both here and abroad. + +Out of the scrapheap of Russian autocracy, they have exhumed their old +weapons and are striking at the Jews again. Upon the structure of the +old myths they are striving to erect new falsehoods in order to +intensify everywhere chaos and confusion and dissatisfaction so that +they may attain their own dastardly and selfish ends. + +In the war’s aftermath the Jews are being blamed by the minions of +autocracy and reaction for all the ills that have befallen mankind. Some +blame them for the war, and others for the peace. Some attack them for +the defeat of the German military machine, and others for the victory of +the allies. In Germany they are attacked by the Junkers for having +opposed the submarine warfare and thus assured Germany’s defeat; while +in some of the allied countries the Jews are denounced for constituting +“the brains of Germany.” All the revolutionary leaders of Germany are +credited to the Jews, and bolshevism, which has as little in common with +Judaism as it has with Christianity, is branded as a Jewish movement; +and there are Jew-baiters who in their blind madness have gone so far as +to declare that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was not only influenced by the Jews +but is himself of Jewish descent, and for this reason did not defend +Germany as loyally as he should have done. He conspired against the +Hohenzollern dynasty and undermined it. He destroyed his own throne +because he was serving the secret Jewish world organization. + +On such absurdities have people been fed, since the armistice, in +civilized countries by antisemitic agitators and their dupes, while Jews +have been slaughtered in the Ukraine, in Poland and in Hungary. + +I submit in this little book the documentary evidence showing how the +so-called “Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion” on which this new crusade +is predicated, were forged._ + +HERMAN BERNSTEIN. + +_New York, February, 1921._ + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE +FOREWORD 3 + + +CHAPTER ONE +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy—Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?—Anonymous Accusations—The Mysterious +“Protocols” of Sergei Nilus—How did “Nilus” Secure +Them?—Contradictory Explanations—Who is “Nilus”? +How his Sponsors Disagree—What Russian Publicists +Say 7 + + +CHAPTER TWO +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS +WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of “Protocols” Was German Fiction of “Sir John +Retcliffe”—Who Was “Retcliffe”?—His Infamous Record—His +Bloodcurdling Story—The Meeting in the +Cemetery—An Avowed Myth—Meeting Every Hundred +Years Attended by “Representatives of the Twelve +Tribes of Israel”—The “Son of the Accursed” Also Attends +and Provides Comic Interludes 16 + + +CHAPTER THREE +FICTION FORGED INTO “FACT” + +The Lie in its Second Stage—The Tale Becomes “Fact”—The +“Rabbi’s” Speech—Its Authenticity Vouched for by +“Retcliffe”—An Illuminating Footnote—A Dedication to +The Russian “Black Hundreds”—The Imaginary +“Speech” Bears Witness to Authenticity of “Protocols,” +Themselves Based on “Speech”—Three Stages of the +Lie 43 + + +CHAPTER FOUR +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols—Only “the God-Anointed Tsar of +Russia” Can Save the World—Passages from Nilus +Omitted by Translators—On Tolstoy—On the Emancipation +of Women—On the “Sanhedrin” and “its Faithful +Ally, England” 55 + + +CHAPTER FIVE +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be +Confounded with “Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan +for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.—The +“Symbolic Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every +Jew Familiar with Plot 59 + + +CHAPTER SIX +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905—The Unsuccessful Revolution—The Reaction +and the Reactionaries—Lutostansky and His Work—The +“Symbolic Snake” According to Lutostansky—Who +Plagiarized?—Lutostansky on the English People—Are +the English the “Lost Tribes”?—How the Protocols +Were “Doctored” by Butmi—Conclusion 63 + + + + +CHAPTER ONE + +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy—Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?—Anonymous Accusations—The Mysterious “Protocols” of Sergei +Nilus—How did “Nilus” Secure Them?—Contradictory Explanations—Who is +“Nilus”?—How his Sponsors Disagree—What Russian Publicists Say. + + +Is there a Jewish conspiracy against the world or is there a conspiracy +against the Jews? What are the so-called “Protocols of the Wise Men of +Zion?” Who is “the Russian mystic,” Sergius Nilus, the sponsor of the +Protocols? What forces are behind the anti-Jewish propaganda that is +international in scope and that seeks at this time to spread all over +the world the poison of prejudice and hatred against the Jews, reviving +long-exploded mediaeval legends? + +Many Americans have asked these questions ever since the publication of +“The Cause of the World Unrest,” “The Protocols and World Revolution,” +“The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion,” and the anti-Jewish articles in +Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. + +In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports to be a book by one +Sergius Nilus was published in Germany. During 1920 a translation was +published in England under the name of “The Jewish Peril,” and under +various titles, in different versions, it was reproduced in the United +States, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and even Japan. The Japanese +edition is in the Russian language. In all these books “the Russian +mystic,” Sergius Nilus, is given as the sponsor of a number of secret +“documents” by which it is intended to show that the Jews are +responsible for all the ills that have already befallen the world and +that are still to come. + +The method is simple. Was there a revolution in Russia? Blame the Jews. +Was there a revolution in Germany? Blame the Jews. Who made the French +Revolution? The Jews. Who caused the World War? The Jews. Who profited +by the war? The Jews. Is there anywhere an industrial crisis? The Jews +are, of course, the cause of it. Has the World War brought forth +Bolshevism? The Jews are naturally the fathers of it. First the Jews +engineered the war, and then they pulled the strings behind the scenes +of the Peace Conference. They secured special privileges at the Peace +Table, because, according to the Protocols, they control the gold of the +world, the press of the world, the rulers of the world. And if, as a +result of the World War, millions of Jews have suffered untold agonies, +persecution, starvation, and pogroms, it is no doubt only part of their +deep-laid plot to gain control of the world for Zion through poverty and +suffering! + +Are governments just to the Jews, giving them equal rights? Then it is +obvious that Jews are either at the head of such governments or are +hidden behind the present rulers. If the Jews cannot exert sufficient +influence over the rulers themselves, there are Jewesses in high places, +through whom the cause of Zion is served—and all this is done by the +Jews with but one aim in view—to dominate the world, to become its +autocratic masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom and set +up Israel as “the despot” over the peoples of the earth. According to +the Protocols, all this is engineered with the aid and through the +instrumentality of the Freemasons. + +The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England, France, the +Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United States, basing all their +arguments on the “Protocols” vouched for by “the Russian mystic” Sergius +Nilus, see in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment of +the prophecies outlined by the so-called “Wise Men of Zion” years ago. +The propagandists are violent and vicious, foaming at their mouths, +appealing to the basest passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their +fingers at “the source of all evil”—at the Jews who constitute but a +fraction of one per cent of the world’s population, and who are in +Europe to-day, after the close of the World War, more wretched and +miserable than ever before,—persecuted, hounded and starved. + +What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they come to “the Russian +mystic” who revealed them in 1905, and which have now been exhumed from +obscurity for the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point to +the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and confusion? + +Nilus, “the Russian mystic,” is credited with several versions of how he +had secured the Protocols, and his stories flatly contradict one +another. In 1905 he said that the Protocols were given to him by a +prominent Russian conservative whose name he did not mention, and who in +turn had received them from an unnamed woman who had stolen them from +“one of the most influential leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a +secret meeting of the initiated in France.” Then, several years later, +Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the Protocols from “the +headquarters of the Society of Zion in France.” Several years +afterwards, in a new edition of his book, Nilus said that the +“Protocols” came from Switzerland and not from France. This time he +named his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died in the +meantime. He added that the Protocols were not Jewish-Masonic but +Zionist documents secretly read at the Zionist Congress in Basle in +1897. + +Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing the date of 1917. +A translation of this edition has recently appeared in this country, +containing a brand-new explanation as to how the Protocols were rescued +and given to the world. This explanation is taken from the German +version published in Charlottenburg. The introduction to that edition +says that the Protocols, having been read from day to day at the Basle +Congress, were sent as read to Frankfort on the Main. The disclosure of +them came through the infidelity of the messenger. + +The 1917 edition is published with a prologue and an epilogue, like a +drama, which indeed it is, with all the ingredients of melodrama—a +villain, a mysterious woman, a Grand Duke, a conspiracy to destroy the +world, and a saint—Nilus, who convicts himself in his own writings of +falsification in the giving of these various accounts of how the +Protocols came into his possession. + +Nothing is known of Sergius Nilus. Russian standard reference books and +encyclopedias contain no mention of his name. + +The anonymous American editor of the Nilus book gives the following +information about Nilus: + +“Serge Nilus, in the 1905 edition of whose book was first published the +_Zionist Protocols_, was, as he states, born in the year 1862, of +Russian parents holding liberal opinions. His family was fairly well +known in Moscow, for its members were educated people who were firm in +their allegiance to the Tsar and the Greek Church. On one side he is +said to have been connected by marriage with the nobility of the Baltic +provinces. Nilus himself was graduated from the University of Moscow and +early entered the civil service, obtaining a small appointment in the +law courts. Later, he received a post under the Procurator of a +provincial court in the Caucasus. Finally, tiring of the law, he went to +the Government of Orel, where he was a landowner and a noble. His +spiritual life had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he +entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow. ‘In answer to his +appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern and angry, appeared to him twice +in a vision. He left the Monastery a converted man.’ + +“From 1905 until the present, little is known of his activities. +Articles are said to have appeared from time to time in the Russian +press from his pen. A returning traveller from Siberia in August, 1919, +was positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk in June of that +year. Whether his final fate was that of Admiral Kolchak is not known.” + +The American editor of Sergius Nilus’s book containing the “Protocols” +is hiding behind anonymity. The name of the traveller from Siberia who +was so positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also +concealed. And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei “appeared twice in a +vision” “is said to have written articles in the Russian press” of which +nobody has knowledge. + +In Germany, Nilus is described as follows: + +“Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret police department, +of the _okhrana_, connected with the Church, especially relating to +‘foreign religions.’ He lived for some time at the Optina Pustina +monastery. In 1901 he published a book entitled ‘The Great in the Small +and the Anti-Christ.’ According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus claims to +have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the Protocols from the +secret archives of the Main Zionist organization in France, but he +published the ‘protocols’ only in 1905. A second edition appeared in +1911, and finally another edition was brought out in the beginning of +1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed.” + +“The Cause of the World Unrest,” an anonymous book published in England +and reprinted in this country, speaks of Nilus and the “Protocols” as +follows: + +“In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a book entitled _The +Great in Little_. The second edition, which was published at Tsarskoye +Selo in 1905, had an additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading +‘Anti-Christ as a Near Political Possibility.’ This chapter consisted of +some twenty pages of introduction followed by the text of twenty-four +‘Protocols of Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion,’ and the book ends +with some twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus. + +“Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by Nilus that they are +‘signed by representatives of Zion of the thirty-third degree.’ These +protocols were secretly extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of +protocols. All this was got by my correspondent out of the secret +depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This Chancellery is at +present on French territory.” + +In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote: + + “My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is only + definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of belief, and + that through Jewish sources, that these protocols are nothing other + than the strategic plans for the conquest of the world under the + heel of Israel, and worked out by the leaders of the Jewish + people—and read by the ‘Prince of Exile,’ Theodor Herzl, during the + first Zionist Congress, summoned by him in August, 1897, in Basle.” + +It will be shown later that the so-called Butmi edition of the +“protocols” published in 1907 contains the definite statement of the man +who claims to have translated them into Russian from the French in 1901 +that the Elders of Zion mentioned in the Protocols are not to be +confounded with the Zionist movement. + +In the 1917 edition Sergius Nilus wrote: + + “In 1901 I came into possession of a manuscript, and this + comparatively small book was destined to cause a deep change in my + entire viewpoint as can only be caused in the heart of man by + Divine Power. It was comparable with the miracle of making the + blind see. ‘May Divine acts show on him.’ + + “This manuscript was called ‘the protocols of the Zionist Men of + Wisdom,’ and it was given to me by the now deceased leader of the + Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor of Stavropol, + Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin. I had already begun to work with my + pen for the glory of the Lord, and I was friendly with Sukhotin. + _He was a man of my opinion_, that is, extremely conservative, as + they are now termed. + + “Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manuscript from + a lady who always lived abroad. This lady was a noblewoman from + Tchernigov. He mentioned her by name, but I have forgotten it. He + said that she obtained it in some mysterious way, by theft, I + believe. + + “Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was given by + this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, upon her + return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently killed. He + said other things of the same mysterious character. But when I + first became acquainted with the contents of the manuscript I was + convinced that its terrible, cruel and straight-forward truth is + witness of its true origin from the ‘Zionist Men of Wisdom,’ and + that no other evidence of its origin would be needed.” + +Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia’s most famous liberals, a member of the +nobility, a former member of the Duma, writing recently of the Nilus +protocols and of Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own +opinion, says: + + “For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its + success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was a + Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It is + said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, the + notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk. + + “The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in that + edition Nilus said, ‘Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.’ + + “The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin means + nothing to the present generation. But there was a time when his + name attracted attention. + + “Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for refusing to + cart manure from his stables because the animals there were + infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the peasants. + Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified his act by + writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, that he had + arrested the peasants not because they refused to cart his manure + but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo official. The + reactionary Chernsk nobility made Sukhotin marshal of nobility. So + it was this man who furnished the protocols of the secret meetings + of the representatives of Zion! But how did Sukhotin get the + protocols? An unknown friend had brought them to him. They were + given to him by an unknown lady who had received them from an + unknown but energetic participant in the Basle Congress. Is this + credible? Well, then, there is another version of the origin of the + protocols—but that is for the German readers. The Russian + government sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the + Congress himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was + carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local masonic + organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, and gave the + protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who worked all night and + copied the protocols. + + “In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to have + been brought to Russia in French. According to the German version, + the protocols were copied, consequently they were in German, but + the most important thing is that the protocols are not protocols at + all, but a monograph—which could be called ‘the dream of a member + of the Black Hundreds.’” + +A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor of the “protocols” +as follows: + + “In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have been + studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor Troitzky, + Professor Kokovtsev, Kartashov, Bulgakov, Berdyayev—men of profound + intellect and a living conscience. In them the counterfeit ravings + of the ignorant monk (Nilus) evoked but a smile of contempt. The + low level of the circles in which men like Nilus moved and worked + is only too well known. It was the world of police denunciations, + divorce perjuries, monastic servility and feigned, blasphemous + piety. In order to attract attention, Nilus’s ‘Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion’ had to emigrate from Russia. And the further away + they went, the better they fared.” + + + + +CHAPTER TWO + +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of “Protocols” Was German Fiction of “Sir John Retcliffe”—Who +Was “Retcliffe”?—His Infamous Record—His Bloodcurdling Story—The Meeting +in the Cemetery—An Avowed Myth—Meeting Every Hundred Years Attended by +“Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel”—The “Son of the +Accursed” Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes. + + +The query now naturally arises, what is the origin of these much +heralded “Protocols” which were published in Russia by Sergius Nilus in +1905, and a copy of which, it is triumphantly announced, is now in the +British Museum? + +The anti-Jewish propagandists everywhere content themselves with the +“history” of the origin of the “Protocols” as given by the “Russian +mystic” Sergius Nilus. But fortunately “murder will out,” and the +criminals who perpetrated the stupendous forgery for the purpose of +slandering the Jews have left behind clues that enable one to visualize +the very process that they pursued in the perpetration of their crime. + +In 1866-1870 there appeared in Berlin a series of novels entitled +“Biarritz—Rome” purporting to have been written by “Sir John Retcliffe,” +the pseudonym of Herman Goedsche, a German novelist with an unsavory +past. To conceal his identity and to convey the impression that the +antisemitism with which his writings abounded emanated from English +sources, he selected “Sir John Retcliffe” as his pen-name. + +According to _Meyer’s Konversations Lexikon_ (Sixth edition, 1904, +Volume VIII, page 77), Herman Goedsche was born in February, 1815, in +Trachenberg, Silesia, and died on November 8, 1878, at Warmbrunn. He was +employed in the postal service, but as he was implicated in the Waldeck +forgery case, he left the service in 1849, and devoted himself to +literary work. Under the name of “Armin” he published a number of works +of fiction, but he was best known under the name of “Sir John +Retcliffe,” having published a series of sensational novels describing +the Crimean war, “Sebastopol,” “Rena-Sahib,” “Villafranca,” “Puebla,” +“Biarritz,” in 1866. A new edition of these works appeared in Berlin in +1903-4. + +_Brockhaus’ Konversations Lexikon_ (supplement volume XVII, 1904) refers +to Goedsche, the novelist, known under the name of “Sir John Retcliffe” +(formerly “Armin”), as having played an infamous role in the Waldeck +forgery case. He was compelled to leave the postal service, and later +became a member of the staff of the _Preussische Kreutz Zeitung_. + +The chapter of the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which on even a cursory +reading will be found to contain the very essence of the Nilus Protocols +was published as a separate booklet in a Russian translation in 1872, +avowedly as a work of fiction. I have found a copy of this little volume +in the Russian Department of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. + +An examination of this chapter, entitled “The Jewish Cemetery in Prague +and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel,” will +disclose the fact that every substantive statement contained in the +Protocols and elaborated in them is to be found in the +Goedsche-Retcliffe novelette. + +We are thus supplied with an early draft of the so-called Protocols, +which have now been given worldwide publicity by anti-Jewish +propagandists, and which were first introduced to the world in the form +of a clumsy piece of blood-curdling fiction of the dime-novel variety. + +In substantiation of this statement I now present a translation of this +chapter of the Russian version of this novel found in the Library of +Congress in Washington, published in St. Petersburg nearly fifty years +ago. + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF THE FANTASTIC STORY PUBLISHED +IN RUSSIA IN 1872, CONTAINING THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE PROTOCOLS IN THE +FORM OF FICTION.] + +[Transcription: +ЕВРЕЙСКОЕ КЛАДБИЩЕ ВЪ ПРАГѢ + +и + +СОВѢТЪ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕЙ + +ДВѢНАДЦАТИ КОЛѢНЪ ИЗРАИЛЕВЫХЪ. + + * * * * * + +С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. +ТИПОГРАФІЯ ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА «ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ ПОЛЬЗА», +по мойкѣ, у круглаго рынка, № 5. +1872. +] + +[Transliteration: +EVREJSKOE KLADBISHHE V PRAGE + +i + +SOVET PREDSTAVITELEJ + +DVENADCATI KOLEN IZRAILEVYH. + + * * * * * + +S.-PETERBURG. +TIPOGRAFIJA TOVARISHHESTVA «OBSHHESTVENNAJA POL'ZA», + +po mojke, u kruglago rynka, № 5. + +1872. +] + +_Translation of Title Page_ + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + And + THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES + Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel + + ST. PETERSBURG +Printed by the Association “Obschestvenaya Polza” + On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5 + 1872 + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF THE FOREWORD TO THE STORY PUBLISHED IN 1872, +SHOWING THAT THE AUTHOR REGARDED IT AS A “LEGENDARY STORY,” COLORED BY +THE AUTHOR’S “FANTASTIC IMAGINATION.”] + +[Transcription: +ПРЕДИСЛОВІЕ. + + +Описаніе еврейскаго кладбища въ Прагѣ и легендарный +разсказъ о собраніи представителей двѣнадцати +израильскихъ колѣнъ заимствованы изъ историко-политическаго +романа Сера Джона Редклиффа «До Седана», +помѣщеннаго въ журналѣ, издаваемомъ Николаемъ +Степановичемъ Львовымъ. + +Содержаніе легенды не есть вымыселъ одного Редклиффа; +скорѣе Редклиффъ, съ свойственнымъ ему фантастическимъ +вooбраженіемъ, собралъ части въ одно +цѣлое и окрасилъ все поэтическими красками, поражающими, +можетъ быть, чрезмѣрною яркостію, но +тѣмъ не менѣе представляющими интересъ. + + * * * * * + +Дозволено цензурою, С.-Петербургъ, 17-го мая 1872 года. +] + +[Transliteration: +PREDISLOVIE. + +Opisanie evrejskago kladbishha v Prage i legendarnyj +razskaz o sobranii predstavitelej dvenadcati +izrail'skih kolen zaimstvovany iz istoriko-politicheskago +romana Sera Dzhona Redkliffa «Do Sedana», +pomeshhennago v zhurnale, izdavaemom Nikolaem +Stepanovichem L'vovym. + +Soderzhanie legendy ne est' vymysel odnogo Redkliffa; +skoree Redkliff, s svojstvennym emu fantasticheskim +voobrazheniem, sobral chasti v odno +celoe i okrasil vse poeticheskimi kraskami, porazhajushhimi, +mozhet byt', chrezmernoju jarkostiju, no +tem ne menee predstavljajushhimi interes. + + * * * * * + +Dozvoleno cenzuroju, S.-Peterburg, 17-go maja 1872 goda. +] + + + + +_(Translation)_ + +FOREWORD + + +“The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and the legendary +story of the meeting of the representatives of the twelve tribes of +Israel are borrowed from the historico-political novel by Sir John +Radcliff, ‘To Sedan,’ published in the magazine edited by Nicholas +Stepanovitch Lvoff. + +“The contents of the legend are not the invention of Radcliff himself; +rather Radcliff, with his characteristic fantastic imagination, +collected various parts into one whole and painted all with poetic +colors, which strike one perhaps by their excessive gaudiness, but which +are nevertheless interesting.” + + * * * * * + +Passed by the Censor, St. Petersburg, May 17, 1872 + +This product of “Radcliff’s fantastic imagination,” the work of one +experienced in the perpetration of forgeries, will now be permitted to +tell its own story. It requires no commentary. It clearly foreshadows +the protocols, with all its accompaniment of melodrama, not even +omitting the Devil, himself. + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + + and + + The Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel + + + “The Jewish quarter of Prague represents a remarkable labyrinth of + crooked and narrow streets; it is situated in the outskirts of + Prague which witnessed numerous bloody episodes of Bohemian and + German history. The dwellers of the dirty and dilapidated houses of + this quarter are engaged in petty trading and profiteering in + their own as well as in other parts of the city. Prague is the only + city in Germany where the Jews live entirely isolated from the + nation whose name they have taken in order to avail themselves of + the privileges of the city population and to exploit it for their + own purposes. The Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the + rag-fair in Vienna and the Temple in Paris. In these places deals + amounting to thousands are transacted daily. + + “If you take a few steps along this dirty, foul market-place, you + will suddenly come upon an old, high, decayed wall which surrounds + a space of from two to three acres. Elder-trees and other wild + shrubbery wind around this wall. Old Jewish houses are crowded all + along near this wall, threatened with destruction at any moment. + The strange circle formed by this wall has an unwelcome, puzzling + appearance. + + “This is the city of the dead—the renowned Prague cemetery. + + “In this abode of rest may be seen the spirit of the nation, whose + bones found shelter here after long wandering,—here is stamped all + its history, full of sufferings, struggles and resistance. + + “It seems as though at any moment these tombs, overgrown with + shrubbery, are ready to open, these stones growing for thousands of + years are ready to raise themselves, and to let out into the world + the restless wanderer with a pack upon his shoulder, with a staff + in his hand, in order to go again to strange peoples,—to cheat and + combat them and to seek a new Canaan—his dominion! The Jewish + cemetery in Prague is the very oldest cemetery known. It was closed + by order of the government a hundred years ago. For foreigners it + is a historical landmark; for the Jews it is a sacred place. The + impression of this deserted spot is intensified by its + surroundings. Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, + overgrown with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost + entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed. + + “During the inspection, the watchman will tell the visitor the + history of the death of Rabbi Ben Manasseh, the great conqueror of + death, and Rabbi Loewe, the most learned Rabbi of the 17th century; + he will speak of Simon the Just and of the Polish princess Anna + Shmiless. He will then lead the visitor to the monument of Anna + Kohn on which can be read the mysterious figure 606, which shows + that the Jews, more than twelve hundred years ago, had buried + their dead here, in the legendary times of Lyubush and her + daughters. + + “If we are not to believe this figure, we must nevertheless agree + with the opinion of the Jews that this is the oldest settlement and + the first Jewish community in Europe. + + “Silently the Jewish guide and the curious foreigner go by one + place where under an old lilac bush a heap of stone stands out, and + when the foreigner asks, ‘What is this?’ the guide gives an evasive + answer—— + + “‘Beth Chaim—the house of life.’ Thus is the cemetery called. Yes, + indeed, this place of rest is a house of life, for from here is + given the mysterious impulse which makes the exiles masters of the + earth and tyrants of nations,—the impulse which directs the golden + calf to the chosen tribe. + + “The Jewish town has assumed a holiday aspect. The stands of the + petty retailers have disappeared; Jewish boys and girls were + strolling about in their holiday attire. The houses and windows + were adorned with green branches. On the old benches sat men, + talking seriously; in the alleys youths were chatting. From time to + time men and women in their best Sabbath clothes were going to the + synagogue, carrying prayer books in their hands; while poor + Christian women whom need had forced to work in this quarter were + running with keys and dishes in order to prepare for the feast. + + “It was the last day of the Feast of Booths, the day of Assembly, + and dusk was gathering over the narrow streets, while the Christian + part of the city was still brightly illumined by the last rays of + the setting sun. Two men (the older wore a black silk mantle, with + long earlocks, which showed that he was a Polish Jew; the other was + middle aged, in modern clothes, with diamond studs in his shirt and + a heavy golden chain on his vest) walked along the narrow streets, + without paying any attention to the crowd. + + “The younger seemed to be the guide. Having come with his companion + to the little house where the watchman of the cemetery lived, he + knocked at the closed door, through a crevice of which the bright + light of wax candles was seen, showing the watchman’s holiday mood. + It was a good summer—a large number of foreigners had visited the + cemetery and were generous in their gifts. + + “In the doorway appeared the thin face of the watchman, whose + short-sighted eyes began to look fixedly into the darkness. + + “‘Come out into the street, Joel, somebody wants to talk to you!’ + + “‘O, God of Justice,’ said the watchman with amazement, as he came + out of the door,—‘One of the trustees! What is your pleasure to + command me?’ + + “‘This Rabbi desires to make a brief prayer in the cemetery; he is + leaving to-morrow morning by train.’ + + “‘In the cemetery? This evening? But you know yourself, Mr. Banker, + that I am forbidden to open the gates after sunset, and to-night is + also the holy Sabbath.’ + + “‘First of all, there is no need for you to shout here about my + calling,’ replied the banker, displeased. ‘Every Jewish rag-picker + will know that banker Rosenberg was here to see you. As for the + permit to open the gates, I myself, as a trustee, authorize you to + do it. I will wait here until he has completed his prayer. The + company in your house must not know what we are doing here. Arrange + it so that the curious crowd will not rush in there.’ + + “The watchman disappeared in the house, but soon returned with a + bunch of keys and opened the gates of the cemetery. He took a + lantern along and was about to light it. + + “‘Don’t!’ said the Rabbi in a low voice. ‘I don’t need any light. + Lock the gates from the inside!’ + + “‘But, Mr. von Rosenberg——’ + + “‘Lock it, I say!’ + + “The watchman obeyed. + + “‘Now lead me to the grave of the holy Rabbi Simeon-ben-Yehudah!’ + + “‘Hold on to my coat, esteemed sir,’ said the watchman. ‘It is dark + and you may stumble over the old graves.’ + + “‘I can see better at night than in the daytime, my son!’ answered + the learned Polish Jew. + + “‘Here is the grave!’ + + “The old Rabbi reverently leaned over the tombstone. The watchman + heard him pronounce a prayer in Jewish. He used so many words of + ancient Hebrew, or some other words of a language he did not + understand, that he knew only a few separate expressions, although + he himself had been in the past a teacher at the Bohemian + community. + + “Having completed his prayer, the stranger turned to the watchman + of the cemetery: + + “‘When you accepted the position from your predecessor, did he not + give you certain instructions?’ + + “‘Me?’ + + “‘Yes, you! It was so from the day the first person was buried in + this place.’ + + “‘Well, and what if he did give such instructions,—how does that + concern you? This the first time I am asked about this matter since + I am employed here.’ + + “‘Because this happens once in a hundred years, and human life + rarely lasts as long as that.’ + + “‘I see that you know about it, Rabbi,’ said the frightened + watchman. ‘But I can obey you only if you mention the word which + was given to me by my predecessor, because I took a sacred oath on + the Bible.’ + + “The Polish Jew bent down and slowly pronounced a word of seven + syllables. + + “The watchman bowed respectfully. + + “‘You are the Rabbi!’ he said. ‘All will be done as you command!’ + + “‘You will send away the friends who are feasting in your house + before the clock strikes eleven. At the first stroke you will open + the gates of the cemetery, and at the last stroke you will get into + your house, lock the doors and windows, lie down in your bed and + turn into a corpse together with the members of your + household,—into a corpse that sees and hears nothing.’ + + “‘I will neither look nor listen.’ + + “‘The angel of death will leave your soul in your body and will + force you to wander about among the graves to the end of time if + you do not carry out my orders correctly. Now go, and remember that + by virtue of your position you are the servant of the great + Jerusalem synagogue. I need not tell you that you should not say + anything to that vain, worldly man who brought me here.’ + + “Both returned to the gates, near which the banker was still on + guard. + + “‘Well,’ he said, ‘your desire is fulfilled, Rabbi, and you may + inform my friend in Warsaw that Rosenberg and Son are always ready + to do a favor to a guest recommended by such a personage. Now let + us go home; my wife is waiting for us.’ + + “‘Let us go, my son,’ replied the Rabbi. ‘But relieve me of + worldly pleasures. I shall spend the night in prayer!’ + + “The banker shrugged his shoulders and gave the watchman a gold + coin. + + “‘Joel,’ he said in a low voice, ‘the other trustees of the + community must not know about this violation of the rule.’ + + “The watchman nodded, and the companion again disappeared in the + dark streets, which had already become deserted, while in the + houses people talked merrily and the sounds of holiday festivities + were heard. + + “How poor, dirty and dark these little houses looked from outside! + But it was quite different within! In the rear rooms of many of + these houses the bright light of numerous wax candles was reflected + in the splendid high mirrors, in expensive dishes and precious + rugs. Girls and women, who in the morning perhaps walked with trays + in their hands, now were seated at the tables in heavy silk gowns + with golden chains and bracelets; their jewels and diamonds were + glittering. + + * * * * * + + “The clock in the town-hall tower struck ten. In the chapel, near + the statue of St. Nepomucenus, upon a stone bench, sat a + large-sized man, with the pale serious face of Germanic type. Every + physiognomist, looking at him, would have said that this man had + devoted his youth to serious scientific work and that he had spent + many sleepless nights over books. + + “The clock had just struck ten when upon the bridge appeared a man + in a light summer coat, of about the same age as the young + scientist. His face was pale, of waxen color, without the slightest + natural red in his cheeks; his particularly prominent nose + indicated his Jewish extraction; his forehead was high and large, + his head was strongly developed. He walked straight over to the man + who was waiting and who quickly arose. + + “‘Good evening. I see you have received my letter. Have you it with + you?’ + + “‘Yes, I know it by heart, I have read it so many times. “My + friend,” it is written there, “I have promised to give you the key + to the Caballah, if I ever find the opportunity to do so. Although + I am not always in the habit of fulfilling my vows, I am ready to + fulfil this one, if you will wait for me in the evening of October + 8, in Prague, on the old Moldau bridge, under the statue of + Nepomucenus.” Then follows your name.’ + + “‘Yes, that is correct. Have you not yet given up your desire?’ + + “‘Less than ever before! You would render science an invaluable + service.’ + + “‘Listen, doctor, bend down a little over the rail; that of which + we speak must not be heard even by the waves of the Moldau, if we + wish to remain alive.’ + + “The young scientist looked in astonishment at his comrade, but did + as he desired. + + “‘Three years ago, in Rome, when I promised to acquaint you with + the mysteries of the Caballah, I did it more for the sake of + boasting of a power and authority which, in reality, I did not + possess. Although I had studied for some time the traditions of my + nation, rather out of curiosity than because of the love of + knowledge, I knew very well that I could hardly penetrate the + corridor of those mysteries which I am still regarding as the + sophistry and roguishness of exalted minds, invented for the + purpose of holding fools in fear and subordination. But several + accidental discoveries, made by me since then, have changed my + views and have aroused in me a sense of curiosity. + + “‘You know, notwithstanding our brief acquaintance, that I am not + the type of man who would abandon a clue or a conceived plan. What + has caused me to make you my companion in satisfying my + curiosity—that does not concern you. It is enough that now we have + an opportunity to satisfy our mutual desire, and all depends on + whether you will agree to accept the conditions upon which I can + make you a partner in my investigation.’ + + “‘If these are not against honor and conscience.’ + + “‘In this respect you have nothing to risk, you are rather risking + something else—your life. Do you feel that you are capable of + facing a serious danger?’ + + “‘For the sake of science, yes!’ + + “‘Very well, in that case I must tell you that I will lead you to a + place which we will not leave alive, if our presence is discovered. + The slightest suspicion that we were uninvited witnesses of the + secret will bring upon us persecution which will kill us sooner or + later.’ + + “‘You are whetting my curiosity, signor!’ + + “‘That is all I wanted to tell you. The other thing—you know that + I am a Jew by birth. Although the Jews have driven me from their + midst and cursed me according to their custom and traditions + because I adopted Christianity,—still I have my own reasons for + stipulating a condition—your word of honor that you will be silent + about all you will see and hear, until I authorize you to speak.’ + + “‘I swear by my honor.’ + + “‘Very well. You will recall in your investigations of the Caballah + that in the mysterious books mention is made of a meeting of the + heads or chosen ones of the nation,—a meeting which takes place + from time to time?’ + + “‘Yes, in the Yezire it is said very definitely, and if I + understood correctly, such meetings take place every hundred + years.’ + + “‘Yes. The last meeting took place in 1760 and you recall that + shortly afterward the movement of Judaism started. It is now 1787 + years since the destruction of Jerusalem and this year is + designated for a meeting of the Cabalistic Sanhedrin. This is the + day of the meeting; the place is this city. I want to be present at + this meeting in spite of the danger and am ready to take you along + with me.’ + + “‘But will it not be dishonest to listen, will it not be an + unlawful interference with other people’s secrets?’ + + “‘Per Bacco! as we Italians say; with such hesitations you must + abandon once for all the idea of fulfilling your desire. Or do you + think that the people who guard the secret of the Caballah will + bring it to you on a tray? As far as I am concerned, I shall + discover the secret, at any cost!’ + + “After reflecting a few minutes, the scientist came to a decision. + + “‘I shall go with you, come what may!’ + + “‘Very well. Now we have agreed. Let us go,—there is no time to + lose.’” + + * * * * * + + “The tower clock of the town-hall struck eleven. At the first + stroke a key clicked in the lock of the cemetery gates. Then + followed profound silence which indicated that the cemetery was + open. The lights in the Jewish houses were gradually dying out, and + at the same time the sounds of the merry feasting also subsided. + + “Mysterious silence reigned in that terrible place. + + “The gates creaked softly; the rustling of long coats was heard, + touching the stones and shrubbery; finally a vague white figure + appeared and slipped by like a shadow along the pathways. + + “This figure knelt before one of the tombstones; three times it + touched the stone with its forehead and softly whispered a prayer. + + “Along the path leading from the gates came an old man, bent, + limping, sighing and coughing. He came over to the ancient + tombstone, and lowered himself on his knees near the white figure + that had entered before him, and he, too, whispered a prayer. + + “Then heavy footsteps were heard, and a tall, impressive figure + appeared on the road, clad in a white mantle, and he, too, fell + down on his knees, as though unwillingly, in front of the + tombstone. + + “Thirteen times this was repeated. Thirteen old men came over to + the tombstone. The doctor counted them, but he could not understand + whether they were alive or dead. A shiver crept down his back, his + heart began to beat faster from fright. He involuntarily recalled + the terrible legend of the Day of Atonement in the tenth month, + Tishri, in the synagogue of Posen when, during the prayer of Kol + Nidrei, the congregation kept growing larger and larger; unknown + people, pushing one another, wrapped in prayer shawls, came in, one + hundred after another, until the terrified Rabbi lifted his hand as + if to curse and exclaimed: ‘He who has flesh in his cheeks, let him + throw off the prayer shawl!’ Hundreds remained covered, and when + the prayer shawls were torn away from them, all saw the skulls of + the dead who had come out of the graves to celebrate the Day of + Atonement with the rest of the congregation. + + “As there, it seemed to him that the prayer shawls had fallen off + the heads of the praying old men, and a row of dead skulls + appeared. At that moment the clock struck twelve. A sharp metallic + sound rang out on the grave, after which a blue flame appeared and + illumined the thirteen kneeling figures. + + “‘I greet you, Roshe beth Aboth (heads) of the twelve tribes of + Israel,’ announced a dull voice. + + “‘We greet you, son of the accursed.’ + + “‘A hundred years have already passed. Where have the Nesiyim + (princes of the tribes) come from?’ + + “‘From the lands where the nation of Adonai has been scattered by + the orders of our forefathers.’ + + “‘Are you ready to fulfil the promise during the coming century?’ + + “‘We are ready!’ + + “‘Then say, whose representatives are you, and where do you come + from? Tribe of Judah?’ + + “‘From Amsterdam,’ replied a strong, loud voice. + + “‘Tribe of Benjamin?’ + + “‘Toledo!’ came the dull answer. + + “‘Tribe of Levi?’ + + “‘Worms!’ + + “‘Tribe of Manasseh?’ + + “‘Budapest!’ + + “‘Tribe of Gad?’ + + “‘Cracow!’ + + “‘Tribe of Simeon?’ + + “‘Rome!’ + + “‘Tribe of Zebulun?’ + + “‘Paris!’ + + “‘Tribe of Dan?’ + + “‘Constantinople!’ + + “‘Tribe of Asher?’ + + “‘London!’ + + “‘Tribe of Issachar?’ + + “The answer came in a faint voice and could not be heard + distinctly. + + “‘Tribe of Naphtali?’ + + “‘Prague!’ + + “‘And I am the representative of the unfortunate and exiles,’ said + the man who asked the questions in a dull voice. ‘I am myself + wandering about all over the world in order that I may unite you + for the sake of the cause of redemption which has been promised to + the seed of Abraham and which was taken from them by the sons of + him who was crucified! Who is here of the house of Aaron, let him + rise, scrutinize the heads of the tribes and gather the council.’ + + “The man who was the first to arrive rose and then seated himself + upon the tombstone. One by one the others came over to him and + whispered in his ear a seven-syllabled word, and each time he + nodded in approval. After that all returned to their former + places. ‘Brethren,’ said the Levite, ‘our fathers formed a union + which compels all those chosen as representatives of the tribes to + gather every hundred years at the grave of the great teacher of + Caballah whose doctrines give the chosen ones power on earth and + supremacy over all the descendants of Ishmael. Eighteen hundred + years the struggle has been conducted by the nation of Israel for + supremacy which was promised to Abraham and which was taken away + from us by the Cross. Trampled under foot by our enemies, under the + terror of death and all kinds of humiliation and violence, the + nation of Israel, nevertheless, has not abandoned this struggle, + and as they are scattered all over the earth, the whole earth must + belong to them! Our learned men are conducting this struggle for + hundreds of years; the nation is gradually rising from its fall; + its power is growing and spreading. To us belongs the earthly god, + which was made for us with such sorrow by Aaron in the desert ... + the Golden Calf which the backsliders are worshipping!’ + + “‘We hear!’ they whispered on all sides. + + “‘When all the gold on earth will be ours, the power will go over + to us. Then will be fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. Gold is + the ruler of the earth. Gold is power, reward, pleasure ... all + that human beings fear and desire. This is the mystery of the + Caballa ... the teachings concerning the spirit which rules the + world, and about the future! Eighteen centuries we have belonged to + our enemies. The future belongs to us. For the fifth time in the + course of the thousand-year-old struggle to which we have + consecrated ourselves, those who know of the existence of the + secret union have gathered here to take counsel as to the means + which are afforded us by the sins of our enemies, and each time, + for five hundreds years, a new Sanhedrim, ordered the fiercest + struggle. But, excepting Russia, not a single century has been + crowned with such success as this one. Therefore we may think that + the time for which we are striving is near, and we may say, “The + Future is ours!”’ + + “‘Yes, if persecutions against the Jews will not take place in the + meantime!’ pointed out one of the men with a bitter smile. + + “‘The dark days of such a danger are passed. The success of + so-called civilization among the Christian nations may serve as the + best protection for our endeavors. Before listening to the + individual opinions, let us examine the material means, the pure + capital possessed by the nation of Israel....’ + + “‘But against the three and a half million Jews with their money + there are 265 million enemies in Europe, or rather 500 million + fists,’ remarked one of these present. + + “‘The head will protect us against the fists, as in the past. Labor + is the slave of speculation, and violence is the slave of wisdom. + Who will deny that cunning is the distinctive trait of our nation? + + “‘Our nation is ostentatious and greedy, arrogant and + pleasure-loving. + + “‘Where there is light there is also shadow. It is not in vain that + Adonai our God gave his chosen people the tenacity of a snake, the + cunning of a fox, the look of a falcon, the memory of a dog, the + diligence of an ant, and the sociability of a beaver. We were in + captivity on the rivers of Babylon, and have become powerful! Our + temple was destroyed, but we have built a thousand new temples! For + eighteen hundreds years we were slaves; now we have grown head and + shoulders above all other nations.’ + + “All the twelve pronounced the concluding words— + + “‘Brethren,’ said the Levite, ‘the time has come when, in + accordance with the laws of the founder of our union, we must + determine ways and means by which the Jews shall attain their goal + as soon as possible; our experience of a hundred years will help us + in this. We who know must direct and guide the masses which are + blind. We, the builders, will combine the dead stones into a pillar + which must reach the sky.’ + + “‘The Tower of Babel was destroyed by the hand of Him whose name I + dare not pronounce,’ said the sceptic. + + “‘Our structure rests upon the foundation of the promise made to + Abraham. It is your turn to speak, representative of the tribe of + Reuben! By what means will the Jewish nation achieve power and + supremacy over all other nations on earth?’ + + “A shrill, unpleasant voice then spoke: + + “‘All the princes and the lands of Europe are at present in debt. + The stock exchange regulates these debts. But such things are done + only by movable capital; therefore all the movable capital must go + over to the hands of the Jews. The foundation for this is already + laid, judging from what we have heard here. If we will be supreme + in the stock exchange, we will attain the same supremacy in the + governments. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate loans in order + to get them into our hands all the more. Wherever possible, we must + take in exchange for capital, mortgages on railroads, taxes, mines, + regalia and domains. Furthermore, the stock exchange is a means for + the transfer of the belongings of the small people to the hands of + the capitalists, by drawing them into stock gambling. Transactions + in securities are a splendid invention of our nation. Although the + stock exchange members cheat one another sometimes, it is the + outsider who always pays in the end.’ + + “The voice which resounded on the Paris Bourse became silent. + + “‘Do the _zekenim_ agree with the opinion of our brother?’ asked + the Levite. + + “A whisper of approbation was the answer to this question. + + “‘Representative of the tribe of Simeon, it is your turn now!’ + + “A serious, dull voice resounded after this order. Each word was + pronounced slowly and thoughtfully: + + “‘Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore, the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. It will not be hard to accomplish this, if + we acquire movable capital. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate + loans on land. Under the fear of scandal we will destroy land + wealth and minimize its importance. Ownership of land should be + mobilized, if lands are sold as other commodities. The more we help + in the breaking up of estates, the more easily will they fall into + our hands. Under the pretext of relieving the poor classes, it is + necessary to levy all taxes of states and communities on the land + owners. When the land is in our hands, the labor of the Christian + workers and farmers will give us a tenfold income.’ + + “He who did not belong to any tribe laughed sneeringly. + + “‘This advice is good, but not new. Ask in Paris and in Vienna, who + owns the houses there?’ + + “A whisper of approbation was heard again. + + “‘Tribe of Judah, your turn!’ + + “The voice that resounded was marked with conviction and reminded + one of the sound of the Thaller. + + “‘Industry, the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish + nation, must be paralyzed even as agriculture. The manufacturer + should be no better than an ordinary worker. The means to + accomplish this may be the unlimited freedom of trade. The + manufacturer will take the place of the artisan as he does not have + to work, only to speculate. The children of Israel can adapt + themselves to all branches of work. Their capital and dexterity + will be the substitute for right. Transforming the artisans into + our factory workers, we will be in a position to direct the masses + for our political purposes. Whoever resists this system will be + destroyed by competition. The senseless and ungrateful masses will + not support the artisans in this struggle, if commodities are + reduced in price to a certain extent. + + “A noisy approbation of the new Sanhedrin showed that the soundness + of this advice had long been appreciated and even applied in + practice. + + “‘Now it is my turn,’ said the representative of Levi—‘I speak in + the name of the tribe of Aaron. The natural enemy of the Jews is + the Christian church. Therefore we must try to humiliate it, we + must instill into it free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts. + Therefore we will, first of all, start a war on the clergy, we will + try to arouse suspicion against it and ridicule it. The main pillar + of the church is the school. Therefore we must gain influence over + the young. Under the guise of progress and the equal rights of all + religions, we will destroy the study of religion in Christian + schools. Then the Jews may become teachers in all schools; then + religion will be taught at home. And as there is little time left + for that, the spirit of religion will gradually decline, and + eventually it will be destroyed altogether. Agitation for the + appropriation of property belonging to the churches and schools, + the transfer of church property to the state, or (what is the same) + into the hands of the Jews, will be our reward!’ + + “Again approbation followed the words of the man who had spoken. + Nobody contradicted him and he announced: + + “‘Representative of the tribe of Isaachar, it is your turn!’ + + “Now an old, trembling voice spoke: + + “‘Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. The + coarse military art is not for the sons of Israel. Not everyone can + be a Gideon! The army is for the defense of the throne and the + school of narrow patriotism. Not the sword, but reason and money + must rule. Therefore at every opportune instance, it is necessary + to help the downfall of the military class, to arouse suspicion in + the masses against it, and to incite animosity against one another. + It is enough for the soldiers to do police duty and to protect the + wealthy from those who have nothing.’ + + “‘The Lion of Judah has spoken,’ said the stranger angrily. ‘David + conquered Goliath. The nations will soon wear long coats instead of + military armour. A slap on the bourse will be equivalent to a lost + battle.’ + + “It looked as though a storm was rising against this arrogant + sarcasm, but one word from the eldest restored them all to calm. + + “‘This is the son of Baal! He may say whatever he pleases. But he + will do whatever is decided by the council of the tribes.’ + + “‘The tribe of Zebulun may speak!’ + + “A dull voice, like a storm in the distance, said as follows: + + “‘Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to + what is old. But our interest demands that we participate, or, + rather, direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that + ours is a time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the + amelioration of the material condition of the needy classes. But + for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals. + Capital is in the hands of the Jews. Therefore they must outwardly + take part in the movement and try to divert it from social and + political reforms. The masses themselves are blind and foolish, and + permit the shouters to rule over them. Who shouts more loudly and + more shrewdly than the Jews? Therefore our nation has been the + first on the platform, in the press, and in all Christian + communities! The more communities and meetings, the more + dissatisfaction and idleness. From this it follows inevitably that + the people grow poorer, that they become subjected to those who + have money, leading to the enrichment of the latter. Besides, every + movement makes us richer, for the smaller people are ruined and are + contracting debts. The unstability of the foundation increases our + power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + dissatisfaction, every revolution, increases our capital and brings + us nearer to our goal.’ + + “This terrible speech was followed by prolonged silence. Every + member of this secret Sanhedrim seemed to be thinking of its + terrible meaning. The son of Baal again laughed hoarsely. + + “‘Are you afraid of blood? It isn’t yours.’ + + “Then one member of the gathering expressed his approval, and all + others followed his example. + + “‘Son of the tribe of Dan, your turn!’ + + “The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order: + + “‘Every business in which there is speculation and profit must be + in our hands. That is our natural right. First of all, we must get + control of the traffic in liquor, butter, wool, and bread. Then we + shall have in our hands agriculture, farming. We can prepare bread + everywhere, and if dissatisfaction and want should arise, we can + easily throw the blame on the government. Petty wares, which give a + great deal of trouble and yield very little profit, we can leave in + the hands of the Christians. Let them work hard and suffer as the + chosen people suffered for several centuries.’ + + “This speech scarcely needed approval. The Levite called on the + next one. + + “‘Tribe of Naphtali?’ + + “The following words rang out shrilly and with assurance: + + “‘All governmental positions should be open to us. Once this + principle is established, the cunning and flattery of the Jewish + employees will help them to penetrate even there, and they will + have real influence. I am speaking only of the posts which bring + honor, power, and pre-eminence. Positions which require work and + knowledge may remain for the Christians. Therefore the Jews may + neglect positions of secondary importance. Justice is very + important for us, the law is a great step forward. This occupation + is suited to the cunning and skill of our people and gives us + influence and power against our natural enemies. Why can’t a Jew be + Minister of Education as he has already been more than once + Minister of Finance?’ + + “‘Remember the scaffold of Haman, the fate of Shushan and Leopold!’ + said a warning voice. + + “‘Why does the raven croak about the past which is so distant and + almost forgotten? More than one of our people has been a Minister + in France and respected by the King himself.’ + + “Approval was expressed in a tone of satisfied pride; then the + orator continued: + + “‘Our people must be among the legislators of the governments. The + laws of the goyim against the children of Israel must be abolished. + We will maintain the laws of our Fathers. We need no longer any + laws that would protect us. No. We must concern ourselves about + laws that will give us privileges. A mild law respecting + bankruptcy, promulgated in the interests of humanity, would be a + golden mountain in our hands. First of all we must see to it that + the law regarding usury is abolished in all countries under the + pretext that money would thereby become cheaper. Money is just such + a commodity as others, and the law should give us the right to + regulate its price according to our desire.’ + + “‘Now is the turn for the tribe of Benjamin.’ + + “‘What can I add to the counsel of such wise men? The Jew should + also make use of honors, and should be at the head of all + organizations that may give him honor without risks, and he should + engage in science and the arts which are more adapted to the + character of our people and which we can master more easily. We can + become good actors and philosophers, because there is room for + speculation in these domains. In the arts our people will look + after the reception and will burn incense to ourselves. In science + we will take up medicine and philosophy. These afford opportunities + for theories and speculation. A physician penetrates the secrets of + families and holds their lives in his hands.’ + + “‘Tribe of Asher, your turn!’ + + “‘We must demand free marriage between Jews and Christians. Israel + will only be the gainer, even though there be an admixture of + impure blood to a certain degree. Our sons and daughters will marry + into renowned and powerful Christian families. We give money and + thus have influence. The Christian relationship cannot have a bad + influence on us, while we can exert a strong influence over them. + That is one thing. Another thing is that we respect the Jewish + woman and we enjoy the forbidden pleasure with the women of our + enemies. We have money, and for money we can get everything. A Jew + must never make a daughter of his own race his mistress. If he + should desire to sin against the Seventh Commandment he should + content himself with Christian girls.’ + + “‘What is the use of employing the beautiful girls of the goyim in + our stores if not for this?’ angrily interposed the representative + of the evil spirit. ‘Whoever will not want to satisfy our desire + will get no work, consequently no bread. Go to the large cities and + you will see that they are not waiting for your wise men’s orders. + Substitute a contract for sacrament in the marriage of Christians + and their wives and daughters will come to you still more readily.’ + + “The terrible cynicism of these words, touching such a delicate + subject, must have produced a profound impression, especially since + the views of the ancient doctrines were so strict on the topic of + moral purity. + + “‘What does the law say?’ asked one of the twelve. + + “‘For adultery with a woman of our own people—death; for seducing a + girl—a fine, if she was not betrothed; if she was betrothed—death. + But the law is not so rigorous with regard to one who lives with a + slave—her body belongs to her master.’ + + “‘Are the goyim better than our slaves?’ + + “This explanation was followed by a whisper of approval. + + “‘The tribe of Manasseh may speak now!’ + + “The last of the orators lifted his hand and during his speech he + raised and lowered it, as if desiring thus to make a stronger + impression by his words. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, but + he spoke skilfully and with assurance. + + “‘If gold is the first power in the world, the press is the second. + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press is + in our hands. Our people must direct the daily publications. We are + cunning, shrewd, and we possess money which we know how to utilize + for our purposes. We need great political newspapers which mold + public opinion—criticism, the literature of the streets and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect, and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us. Then, even though each individual + may be against us, the masses, in their stupidity, will always be + for us. With the press in our hands, we can turn wrong into right, + dishonesty into honesty. We can shake all foundations, and separate + families. We can destroy faith in all that our enemies, until now, + have believed. We can ruin credits and arouse passions. We can + declare war; we can award fame or disgrace. We can uplift or ruin + talent. + + “‘When Israel shall have gold and the press in his hands, we will + be able to ask: “On what day will it please you to _put on Atarah_ + (crown) which belongs to us by right, to erect Shisse (?) and + extend the Shebet (sceptre) over the nations of the earth?”’ + + “A noisy greeting followed these words and the agitated men who + listened hardly understood for some time what was being said at the + meeting. At last the voice of the Levite called upon all to be + silent. + + “‘The Roshe-Bate-Aboth of the twelve tribes have uttered words of + wisdom. These words will be as pillars for the times to come, if + the son of him “who has not rest” will write these words upon his + memory and spread the seeds among the nation of Israel in order + that it may grow to be a mighty tree. They will be the sword with + which Israel will strike down his enemies. Our posterity must share + among themselves happiness, wealth and power as it shared + misfortune and dangers. They must help one another. Wherever one of + them places his foot, he must drag another—his brother—along with + him. If one of them is unfortunate, others must help him, if he but + lives according to the law of our nation. + + “‘He who was in prison for ten years, may become a rich man to whom + princes will bow, if only our people will not forsake him. Where + everybody is against us, all will be for us. After forty years of + wandering in the desert, the hand of Jehovah brought us to power in + the land of Canaan; the same hand will lead us after forty-five + times forty years from our misfortune and miseries to rule over + lands which are forty-five times vaster than Canaan. If Israel + shall obey the decision here adopted by the Sanhedrin of the + Caballah, our grandchildren, coming a hundred years hence to the + grave of the founder of our union, will announce to him that they + have indeed become the princes of the world and that the promise + made to the nation of Israel has been fulfilled. Other nations will + become his slaves! Renew our oath, sons of the golden calf, and go + to all lands of the world.’ + + “The blue flame flared up brightly upon the grave of the Rabbi; + each of the thirteen threw upon the tomb a stone which each carried + under his cloak. + + “It seemed to the doctor that on the top of the tombstone, in the + bluish flame, there appeared a monstrous golden figure of an + animal. + + “Then he heard the same metallic sound that he had heard when the + light first appeared. Then impenetrable darkness covered the + cemetery. + + “The white figures again slipped by among the tombstones. The gates + creaked softly. + + “The clock in the tower struck two past midnight. The last of the + mysterious visitors knocked at the window and a hoarse voice said + (as though the speaker knew that the watchman was not asleep): + + “‘Close the house of life, watchman of those who are awaiting the + resurrection, and may your lips be sealed with the seal of Solomon + for a hundred years.’ + + “The scholar still lay motionless; he was afraid to stir; all he + had heard had made upon him such a dreadful impression. + + “A noise near him indicated that his companion was rising. + + “‘To concentrate in their hands all the capital of the nations of + all lands; to secure possession of all the land, railroads, mines, + houses; to be at the head of all organizations, to occupy the + highest governmental posts, to paralyze commerce and industry + everywhere, to seize the press, to direct legislation, public + opinion and national movements—and all for the purpose of + subjugating all nations on earth to their power! No! I shall + struggle against the golden calf and shall smash it to pieces as + Moses smashed it in the desert.’ + + “‘What we heard is a threat against all society. Here is my hand, I + will be your comrade in this struggle against the power of gold.’ + + “The Italian shook his head, but accepted the extended hand. ‘No,’ + he said, ‘I want to act alone. There is a force which, if properly + directed, is not weaker than gold. That force is poverty and her + companion, labor. I shall call them out and lead them into battle. + Proud Israel! Beware! I shall put against you the _Artel_ (union) + and Labor.’ + + “‘And I,’ said the scholar, with animation, ‘all that is lofty and + noble,—science, idealism, faith—I shall lead these against this + materialism.’ + + “His comrade laughed: + + “‘Your ideals will crumble as clay striking against metal. Only the + forces of poverty and hunger can be the fighters that will defeat + the golden calf. Our ways part here; you will go one way, and I + another. My promise is fulfilled; but remember your vow—be silent + as to all that you have heard and seen here!’” + +This is the weird, fantastic “thriller” from which sprang the Protocols. +It is the first stage. According to this story not only were there +present at a secret meeting in the Prague Cemetery, the representatives +of the twelve tribes of Israel, ten of which totally disappeared nearly +twenty-five centuries ago, but also the son of “the accursed one,” the +Devil, was there, making side-remarks from time to time. His assigned +function was that of spreading the decisions of the Wise Men of Zion +among the Jews in order that they conquer the world. + +Dr. Herman L. Strack, professor of theology at the University of Berlin, +one of the foremost Christian authorities on theological and religious +literature, commenting on this Goedsche-Retcliffe concoction, says that +this tale of the ghostly convocation in the Jewish cemetery at Prague, +discloses no real knowledge of Judaism, that the reference to mixed +marriages indicates gross ignorance of actual Jewish thought, and that +the Hebrew words supposed to have been employed by the spokesmen for the +various tribes appear to have been borrowed from a dictionary. He also +points to Goedsche-Retcliffe’s story and the “Rabbi’s Speech” about to +be mentioned as the sources of the Protocols. + + + + +CHAPTER THREE + +FICTION FORGED INTO “FACT” + +The Lie in its Second Stage—The Tale Becomes “Fact”—The “Rabbi’s” +Speech—Its Authenticity Vouched for by “Retcliffe”—An Illuminating +Footnote—A Dedication to the Russian “Black Hundreds”—The Imaginary +“Speech” Bears Witness to Authenticity of “Protocols,” Themselves Based +on “Speech”—Three Stages of the Lie. + + +A number of years after this Russian translation of the +Goedsche-Retcliffe story appeared, Sir John Retcliffe, alias Goedsche, +deeming it important for his purpose of adding fuel to the flame of +anti-semitism that had been lighted in Germany, undertook to convert +this work of fiction, this offspring of his imagination, into a +statement of fact. This led him to adopt the simple device of +consolidating into one continuous speech the dialogue contained in his +shilling shocker, and putting the speech into the mouth of an imaginary +Rabbi in such a way as to make it appear to be an address delivered by +him to a secret convocation of Jews. And the very man who had invented +the speeches set down in his work of fiction twenty years before, now +vouched for the authenticity of the obviously fabricated speech which he +attributed to a Rabbi who had his birth in the contorted mind of this +notorious forger. + +A translation from the Russian of the apocryphal “Rabbi’s Speech,” with +the introductory note as published in Russia by G. Butmi, in 1907, in a +book entitled “The Enemy of the Human Race,” dedicated by the author to +the Black Hundreds, will now be laid before the reader. A comparison of +it, with the scene in the cemetery, will at once demonstrate the +identity of authorship. Below is a facsimile of the title page of this +book, a copy of which is in the Russian collection of the Library of +Congress, in Washington, D. C. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic] + +[Transcription: +Г. БУТМИ. + +ОБЛИЧИТЕЛЬНЫЯ РѢЧИ. + + +ВРАГИ + +РОДА ЧЕЛОВѢЧЕСКАГО. + +ПОСВЯЩАЕТСЯ СОЮЗУ РУССКАГО НАРОДА. + +Четвертое, обработанное и дополненное изданіе. + + +С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ. + +Тип. Училища Глухонѣмыхъ Гороховая, 18. + +1907. +] + +[Transliteration: +G. BUTMI. + +OBLICHITEL'NYJA RECHI. + + +VRAGI + +RODA CHELOVECHESKAGO. + +POSVJASHHAETSJA SOJUZU RUSSKAGO NARODA. + +Chetvertoe, obrabotannoe i dopolnennoe izdanie. + + +S.-PETERBURG. + +Tip. Uchilishha Gluhonemyh Gorohovaja, 18. + +1907. +] + + +THE RABBI’S SPEECH + +To the Jewish People.[*] + +[Footnote *: NOTE. (Toward the end of the last century there appeared a +book in London by Retcliffe entitled “A Review of Political and +Historical Events During the Past Ten Years.” This work was translated +into French. The French periodical press, without waiting for the +complete translation of the book, reproduced certain parts of it because +they were of special interest. Thus the French newspapers and magazines +published translations from the English of an intensely interesting +speech, most edifying for Russia (from the Hebrew), delivered by one of +the Rabbis, THE AUTHENTICITY OF WHICH SPEECH IS VOUCHED FOR BY THE +ABOVE-MENTIONED AUTHOR. This inimitable gem must in the eyes of Russians +assume all the more importance since it is brought out by that “highly +civilized” humane and practical country, England, which has given +protection to the Russian Jews against the unsuccessfully invented +persecutions on the part of the Russian government and people. This +monstrous document was sent at the time in printed form, in the French +language, to the editorial office of the Odessa newspaper “Novorosisk +Telegraph” for those who might want to examine the accuracy of the +translation published in No. 4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, +1891, and reprinted in No. 21 of the Petersburg newspaper “Znamya,” +dated January 22, 1904. THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SANHEDRIN +OF 1869.)] + +[Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics were omitted in the +Butmi version, but are given in the French publication “Le Péril Judéo +Maçonnique—I. Les Protocols des Sages de Zion,” by Jouin, Paris, 1920.] + + “Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, without + fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master Caleb, + the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowledge is + imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the power over the + whole world and authority over all the descendants of Israel.... + + “It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel is + being waged with the power which had been promised to Abraham + but which had been snatched away from him by the _Cross_. + Trampled under foot, humiliated by his enemies, ceaselessly + under threats of death, of persecution, of rapine and violence + of every sort, Israel has not succumbed; and if he is + dispersed over the whole world it is because the whole world + should belong to him. + + “It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our learned + men have been fighting against the Cross with courage and + persistence which nothing can break. Our people is rising gradually + and, with each day, its forces are growing. _It is to us that this + God of the day belongs, which was erected by Aaron in the + wilderness, this golden calf, this universal deity of the epoch._ + + “When we become, at last, the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the true power will practically be transferred to + our hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. + _Gold—is the greatest power on earth; it is might, reward, the + instrument of every authority, it is all man, both fears and + desires. This is the sole mystery, the most profound science of + that spirit with the aid of which the entire world is ruled._ This + is what the future holds in store. Eighteen centuries have belonged + to our enemies; this century and the following must belong to us, + the People of Israel, and will be ours, without fail. Here, for the + tenth time during a thousand years of cruel and incessant struggle + with our enemies, have assembled at this cemetery; at the grave of + the great Master, Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, the + elect of each of the tribes of the Israelite people, in order to + discuss and agree upon, the means of making use, in the interests + of our cause, of all the tremendous mistakes and errors, which our + enemies—the Christians—have not ceased to commit. Every time the + new Sanhedrin (assembly) proclaimed and preached merciless warfare + against our enemies, but not once during the past centuries did our + forefathers succeed in concentrating in our hands such an enormous + quantity of gold [_and consequently of power_] as the nineteenth + century has given us. We are therefore able, without any senseless + illusions, to flatter ourselves with the hope of attaining our goal + before long, and we can look forward with assurance into the very + eyes of the future. + + “Persecutions and insults,—these sombre and tortuous times, which + the people of Israel bore with heroic patience,—have fortunately + come to an end, owing to the progress of civilization among the + Christians, and this progress is the best shield under which we can + hide and scheme, in order that we may cover quickly and decisively + the last leg of that distance which divides us from our supreme + aim. Let us cast a cursory glance at the economic situation of + Europe and analyze the resources which fell to the Israelites from + the beginning of the present century, owing to the concentration in + their hands of the tremendous capital which is in their possession + at the present time. It turns out that in Paris, London, Vienna, + Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, etc. [_and in all + lands—the Rothschilds_], that everywhere, the Israelites are the + masters of the financial situation, being as they are possessors of + many billions, not to mention localities of the second and third + class where all the financial funds are in their hands and not + mentioning that, without their direct influence, no financial + operation, no work of any importance, could be carried out anywhere + at any time. At present, all the emperors, kings and ruling princes + are burdened with tremendous debts incurred in order to be able to + maintain numerous standing armies [_to sustain their tottering + thrones_]. The Bourse quotes and regulates these moneys, and we are + the full masters of the Bourse in all the centres of the globe. The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other (real property) including duties + and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital + lent by us to the various States. + + “Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a + country’s wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave + for us even a broader way to honors and will strengthen our + influence (over the highest officials of the country). From this + follows, that our efforts will be directed towards inducing our + brethren in Israel to make large agricultural purchases. We must, + therefore, do our utmost to break up large estates into small + parcels, in order to be able to purchase them in the easiest and + quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help the working + classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners with + taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus + gradually be transferred into our hands, the whole labor of the + Christian proletariat will become for us a new source of tremendous + profits. _Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous + enemies, we must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in + order to accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to + implant in the Christian intellectual class ideas of atheism, + scepticism, dissension and to call forth religious disputes among + the newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom._ + + “Logically, we must begin by depreciating the ministers of + this religion. Let us declare open war on them, let us provoke + suspicions on their devotion, on their private conduct, and by + ridicule and persiflage we shall be right in the consideration + attached to the state and the costume of the priest. + + “Every war, every revolution, every political and religious + upheaval brings nearer the moment when we shall attain the great + end for which we have been striving so long. Commerce and + speculation—these branches, most plentiful in their fruits,—must + never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites. + + “... and once these branches have become identified with us, + we shall, through the flattery and perspicacity of our + executives, know how to penetrate to the prime source of true + influence and power. It is understood that we are concerned + only with those pursuits that entail honors, power or + privileges, for all those that require knowledge, labor or + disagreeable conditions, these can and should be left to the + Christians. The magistrature is an institution of prime + importance for us. The legal profession develops most the + faculty of civilization and initiates one furthest in the + affairs of our natural enemies, the Christians, and it is + through it that we can subject them to our mercy. Why should + not the Jews become Ministers of Instruction when they have so + often been Ministers of Finance? The Jews must also aspire to + the rank of legislators with the object of abrogating the laws + made by the Goim, faithless sinners, against the sons of + Israel, the true believers, in their invariable attachment to + the holy laws of Abraham. + + “Moreover, on this point, our plan is nearing the most + complete realization, for progress has nearly everywhere + recognized and accorded to us the same civic rights as to + Christians, but that which it is of importance to obtain, that + which must be the object of our ceaseless efforts, is a law + less severe on bankruptcy. We shall make of it a gold mine + more rich than were ever the mines of California. + + “With this object in view the people of Israel must direct its + ambition towards those high offices of authority which have + the power to distribute honors and esteem. The most assured + way of attaining such offices is to have weight and importance + in the various industrial enterprises, financial and + commercial operations, and to be on guard for all pitfalls and + temptations which may lead to the prosecution of the sons of + Israel in the country’s courts. + + “Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must + be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing + traits of its natural gifts. We must not remain passive to + anything that may aid us in gaining a place of honor in + society; philosophy, medicine, law, political economy—in other + words, all branches of science, art, literature—represent a + wide field where even our smallest successes, developing our + abilities, will be of great benefit to our cause. + + “These vocations are inseparable from speculation. Thus the + production of a musical composition, even though it be very + mediocre, will furnish to our co-religionists a plausible + reason for elevating on a pedestal and surrounding with a halo + the Jew who will be the author of it. As for the sciences, + medicine and philosophy, they must equally be a part of our + intellectual domain. + + “_To the physician are usually confided the most intimate secrets + of the family and he, therefore, holds in his hands the health and + life of our ancient enemies—the Christians._ We are obliged to + encourage matrimonial unions between Israelites and Christians, for + the people of Israel, risking no loss whatsoever from such contact, + will only gain from such unions. + + “... The introduction of a certain quantity of impure blood + into our God-chosen race will not corrupt it. Our daughters + will furnish us with these marriages alliances with Christian + families that possess influence and power. In exchange for the + money that we give, it is just that we obtain influence on + everything that surrounds us. + + “Our relationship with the Christians will not make us deviate from + the path we have always been following; on the contrary, with a + certain degree of artfulness and cunning, this relationship will + gradually make us full masters of their destinies. _It is + desirable, that the Israelites refrain from keeping concubines of + our holy faith and rather select Christian girls for the part._ The + substitution of the simple formality of a contract before some + civil power for the church ceremony is of the greatest importance + to us, because on this condition Christian women will overflow our + camp.—If gold is the first power on this earth, then the second + power is undoubtedly the press. But of what significance is the + latter without the former? Since we cannot realize all the + above-stated aims without the assistance of the press, _it is + absolutely necessary that the management of all the newspapers and + magazines of all the countries, be in our hands. The possession of + gold, of the press and of sufficient means for the satisfaction of + certain qualities of its soul, will make us masters of public + opinion and will subjugate to us the masses._ + + “Following this method on every step of our way with a persistence + which is one of our highest qualities, we will push the Christians + aside and reduce their influence to zero. We will dictate to the + world what it should believe, what it must revere or despise. It is + possible that persons will be found who will arise against us; + arming themselves, they will hurl insults and curses at us; but the + docile, ignorant masses will harken to us and will take our part. + _Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness—and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything that the gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping._ + + “May all this be understood and noted, and let every child of + Israel become imbued with its true principles. Then our might will + grow like a gigantic tree the branches of which will bear fruits, + known as riches, pleasure, power. + + “... as a compensation for that hideous condition which for + long centuries has been the unique lot of the people of + Israel. + + “When one of us makes a step forward let the next one follow him. + If his foot slips let his co-religionists hasten to support him. + If an Israelite is trapped by the court of the country in which he + resides, his brethren in faith should use all their efforts to get + him out of trouble or to help him otherwise, but on the condition + that the Israelite in question acted according to the laws which + Israel observes strictly and guards for so many centuries, and the + precepts of our religion. + + “Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious + ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have bequeathed to + us. + + “It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + “The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them easy prey for + us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid + of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our + artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through the + medium of genuine sentiment. + + “It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat + and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting in + this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, whenever we + shall need them. We will use them as weapons for upheavals and + revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move our cause + forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with a quick pace, + nearer our goal—to reign over the entire world, as it was promised + by our Father Abraham.” + +[_For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, out of many that +might be selected, are taken from the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which +were afterwards elaborated and presented as facts._] + + + FIRST STAGE OF THE LIE—THE NOVELETTE + + If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the + same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary to + facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the more. + Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, mortgages + on railroads, taxes, mines, regalias (?) and domains. (Page 32.) + + Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate the + loans on land. The more we will help the breaking up of estates, + the more easily they will fall into our hands. (Page 33.) + + Industry the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish nation + must be paralyzed even as agriculture. (Page 34.) + + The natural enemy of the Jews is the Christian Church. Therefore we + must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking, + scepticism, and conflicts. Therefore we will first of all start a + war on the clergy, we will try to arouse suspicion against it and + humiliate it. + + Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force.... Not + the sword, but reason and money must rule. (Page 35.) + + Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to the + old. But our interests demand that we participate, or, rather, + direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that ours is a + time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the amelioration of the + material condition of the needy classes. But for this the + propertied classes must sacrifice their capital. Capital is in the + hands of the Jews. Therefore, they must outwardly take part in the + movement and try to divert it from social and political reforms. + The masses themselves are blind and foolish and permit the shouters + to rule over them.... The instability of the foundation increases + our power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + revolution increases our capital and brings us nearer to our goal. + (Pages 36-37.) + + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press + will be in our hands. Our people must direct the daily + publications.... We need great political newspapers which will mold + public opinion—criticism, the literature of the street and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us.... With the press in our hands we + can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into honesty. We can shake + all foundations and separate families. We can destroy faith in all + that our enemies believed until now. We can ruin credits and arouse + passions. We can declare war; we can give fame or disgrace. We can + uplift or ruin talent. (Page 43.) + +[_The following are parallel extracts from the imaginary Rabbi’s speech +vouched for by the author of the novelette as fact a number of years +later._] + + + SECOND STAGE OF THE LIE—“THE RABBI’S SPEECH” + + When we become at last the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the power will practically be transferred to our + hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. Gold—is + the greatest power on earth, it is might, reward, the instrument of + every authority, it is all man, both fears and desires.... The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all the valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other real property, including duties and + taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital lent + to us by the various states. + + Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a country’s + wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave for us even + a broader way to honors and will strengthen our influence over the + highest officials of the country. From this follows, that our + efforts will be directed towards inducing our brethren in Israel to + make large agricultural purchases. We must, therefore, do our + utmost to break up large estates into small parcels, in order to be + able to purchase them in the easiest and quickest way. Under the + pretext of trying to help the working classes, it is necessary to + oppress the large landowners with taxation in all its severity. + When these possessions will thus gradually be transferred in our + hands, the whole labor of the Christian proletariat will become for + us a new source of tremendous profits. + + Commerce and speculation—these branches, most plentiful in their + fruits,—must never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the + Israelites,—with this object in view the people of Israel must + direct its ambition towards those high offices of authority which + have the power to distribute honors and esteem. + + Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous enemies, we + must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in order to + accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to implant + in the Christian intellectual class ideas of Atheism, scepticism, + dissension and to call forth religious disputes among the + newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom. + + It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + fall for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey + for us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the + aid of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe + our artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through + genuine sentiment.... + + Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness—and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything which the Gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping.... + +[_The following are extracts from the new version of the “protocols” +introduced by Nilus in 1905, showing the different stages of the +forgery._] + + + THIRD STAGE OF THE LIE—“THE PROTOCOLS”[*] + + [Footnote *: These extracts are taken from “The Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion,” published by the Beckwith Company, New York, + 1920.] + + All the wheels of the government mechanism are driven by the motor + which is in our hands, and that motor is—gold. (Prot. 5.) + + To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin + Gentile society, industry must be placed upon a speculative basis. + The result will be that all products extracted from industry from + the soil will not remain in their hands but will pass through + speculation into our possession. (Prot. 4.) + + The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed + away.... But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they + are independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all + costs we must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain + this is to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These + measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional + subordination. (Prot. 6.) + + See second quotation above. + + At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry + vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to + act as a counterpoise to industry.... It is necessary for industry + to deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through + speculation, transfer all the money of the world into our hands, + thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. + (Prot. 6.) + + It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from + the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and + replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material + desires. (Prot. 4.) + + We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy + and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper + us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily. + (Prot. 17.) + + It is indispensible for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars + should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an + economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of our + superiority in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will + place both sides under the control of our international agents with + their million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. + (Prot. 2.) + + We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes + who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting + that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to + whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal + principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry.... + (Prot. 3.) + + We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all + movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will + tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in + disgust. (Prot. 5.) + + We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of + Protocol 12. + + + + +CHAPTER FOUR + +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols—Only “the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia” Can Save +the World—Passages from Nilus Omitted by Translators—On Tolstoy—On the +Emancipation of Women—On the “Sanhedrin” and “its Faithful Ally, +England.” + + +In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus’s book appeared, printed on +government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, containing a new and elaborated +version of the protocols. + +The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his 1905 edition, a +copy of which is in the British Museum, have deliberately omitted +numerous passages from his prologue and epilogue. These passages show +clearly the purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: “We may perhaps be +reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal character of the document +presented. But if it were possible to demonstrate its accuracy by +documents or through the testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were +possible to unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the world +conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very +‘mystery of lawlessness’ would be infringed upon, and it must remain +intact until its incarnation in the ‘son of destruction.’” Then he goes +on to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, and that +there is only one force that can save it, and that is the “God-Anointed +Tsar of Russia.” The omitted portions of the Nilus book show distinctly +that it is a work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus +denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and all movements +leading toward progress. + +The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, realizing that these +passages would disclose to intelligent people the real motive of the +Nilus protocols and thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them +in the translations. + +Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious Nilus book, which +are his own utterances and do not purport to constitute a part of the +Protocols. They are translated from a photographed copy of the volume in +the British Museum: + + * * * * * + + “We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man close to us, + now deceased, a manuscript in which are described with unusual + precision and clearness the course and progress of the universal + fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world to an inevitable + catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us about four years ago + (in 1901) with the assurance that it was an accurate copy—a + translation of the original documents stolen by a woman from one of + the most powerful and sacred directors of Freemasonry after one of + the secret meetings of the ‘initiates’ in France, the present nest + of the Freemason’s sect. This manuscript under the general title + ‘Protocols of Meetings of the Wise Men of Zion’ I now call to the + attention of all who wish to see or hear. These ‘Protocols’ at a + first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to + call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed + with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in + commonplaces. A proud, deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time + secretly growing,—and what is more frightful than all,—a religious + rage boils between the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the + overfilled vessel of violence and vengeance, already approaching + complete triumph. + + “It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript + does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols of a + meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided into + parts which are not even always logically connected: the impression + remains that this is a fragment of something much more significant, + the beginning of which has been lost. The origin of the manuscript, + as given by us above, furnishes sufficient explanation of this. + + * * * * * + + “We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal + character of the document presented. But if it were possible to + demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony of + trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil the faces of + those who are at the head of the world conspiracy and who hold its + bloody strings in their hands, then the very ‘mystery of + lawlessness’ would be infringed upon, and it must remain intact + until its incarnation in the ‘son of destruction.’ In the + complexity of the present criminally-earthly process _we must not + search for direct evidence_; we are forced to content ourselves + with indirect proof and of these it seems that the attention of the + sad Christian observer is fully satisfied. + + “The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole republican era + of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of those elected + to office has to this time ever done what he promised to do, if the + demands of his electors did not coincide with the plans of the + government of Zion. + + “What has become of unfortunate France!... + + “‘Let him who has ears, listen!’” + + * * * * * + + “‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some + shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and + doctrines of devils; + + “‘Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a + hot iron; + + “‘Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which + God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which + believe and know the truth.’ + + “Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole + world?!” + + * * * * * + + “In every age there have been many women ‘drowning in sin and led + on by various lusts’: the ebb and flow of this sin in woman’s heart + characterized whole epochs of particular human defection but at no + time of the seeming triumph of sin have there been women + ‘constantly studying’—this sign represents entirely a universal + inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic of our epoch. + + “Who is ignorant of the so-called ‘woman question,’ the + emancipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up so + many families and which threatens an even greater disruption in the + future?!... + + “For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons her + true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate world + revolution!” + + * * * * * + + “The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried the + roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different + name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after + having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having + declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present + day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with + its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was + never penurious. + + “As to the question why England and no other European government + was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting Sanhedrin, + the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to think that the + cause is to be found in the isolated island position of the + sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship between + the English and the Jews.[*] + + [Footnote *: As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries + to prove that the English are the descendants of one of the + scattered tribes of Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course + of contemporary science, is not ashamed to produce whatever + theories are advantageous to them. According to certain tenuous + evidences in the air it seems that a new theory is being produced + according to which the honor of birth relationship with the + God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to America and ... Japan. AVIS A + L’ANGLETERRE!...)] + + “Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of Masonic lies + (the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved for them also), + possessing countless millions, in face of the general fall of the + Christian spirit among the European peoples, in whom there was + artificially spread and supported the cult of the golden calf; + having poisoned the idea of godliness and spirituality in the heart + of the peoples by ‘scientific’ theories, the Sanhedrin—the priest + of the golden idol created by it, has gained control of the + spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, with the help of + its gold, with the sold consciousness of those standing at the helm + of power, and with the help of its faithful ally—England, it has + corrupted and perverted all the political foundations of Europe, + and through them the well-being and spiritual health of its + population. The French revolution, glorified by the Masonized + historical science of ‘greatness’ and the fall of the ‘great’ + Napoleon have shown to the world the significance and strength of + the Sanhedrin. But the world did not recognize the new + manifestation of Satan: at that time the words of truth of the + Evangel and the apostolic foresight had become alien to him.” + + + + +CHAPTER FIVE + +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be Confounded with +“Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929 +B. C. E.—The “Symbolic Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every +Jew Familiar with Plot. + + +In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and +which contains the “Rabbi’s Speech” already considered, there is to be +found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred +writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred +organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of +Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the +title page. With exceeding _naïveté_ Butmi published the forged speech +attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the +genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated +speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone +further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of “the documents” +by Serge Nilus. + +The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as +follows: + + “PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE + OF ZION. + + “‘(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion + of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)’ + +Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the +Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction +the author says, in part, as follows: + + “‘These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in + fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December, + 1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories + again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be + reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month, + year, where and when they were composed. + + “‘The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of + Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal + plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their + authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great + certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the + documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, + which is joined mostly by Jews.... + + “‘But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place + where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader, + who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic + doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.’” + +At the end of the “protocols” published in this edition by Butmi, in +1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured +and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and +in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the +representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be +confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement. The Russian +mystic Serge Nilus, in his later editions, connected the documents with +the Zionist Congress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, +Dr. Theodore Herzl. + +The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives a version of +“the political plan devised by the Wise Men of Zion.” This translator, +however, states that the “political plan was conceived 929 years before +the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in +theory.” + +Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator’s Note: + + + [Illustration: Cyrillic] + + [Transcription: + но если имъ не дать крови, они не спятъ, а борются... + + Примѣчаніе переводчика. + + Изложенные протоколы подписаны Сіонскими представителями + (не смѣшивайте съ представителями сіонистскаго движенія). Они + выхвачены изъ цѣлой книги протоколовъ, всего содержанія + которой не удалось переписать по краткости времени, даннаго + на прочтеніе ихъ переводчику этихъ протоколовъ. Къ нимъ + было приложено еще небольшое прибавленіе и планъ завоеванія + міpa Евреями мирнымъ путемъ. Эти протоколы и чертежъ добыты + изъ тайныхъ хранилищъ Сіонской Главной Канцеляціи, + нынѣ находящейся на французской территоріи. + + На упомянутомъ чертежѣ значился весь политическій планъ + Сіона по отношенію къ имѣющимъ быть пройденными этапамъ + ] + + [Transliteration: + no esli im ne dat' krovi, oni ne spjat, a borjutsja... + + Primechanie perevodchika. + + Izlozhennye protokoly podpisany Sionskimi predstaviteljami + (ne smeshivajte s predstaviteljami sionistskago dvizhenija). Oni + vyhvacheny iz celoj knigi protokolov, vsego soderzhanija + kotoroj ne udalos' perepisat' po kratkosti vremeni, dannago + na prochtenie ih perevodchiku etih protokolov. K nim + bylo prilozheno eshhe nebol'shoe pribavlenie i plan zavoevanija + mira Evrejami mirnym putem. Eti protokoly i chertezh dobyty + iz tajnyh hranilishh Sionskoj Glavnoj Kanceljacii, + nyne nahodjashhejsja na francuzskoj territorii. + + Na upomjanutom chertezhe znachilsja ves' politicheskij plan + Siona po otnosheniju k imejushhim byt' projdennymi etapam + ] + + _Translator’s Note._ + + “The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of Zion + (_do not confound them with the representative of the Zionist + movement_). They were taken out of a whole book of protocols, the + entire contents of which it was impossible to copy because of the + short time allowed the translator for reading these protocols. A + small appendix was attached to them and a plan of conquering the + world by the Jews by peaceful means. Those protocols and the Sketch + were taken from the secret depositories of the Main Office of Zion, + now located on French territory. + + “The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political plan of + Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through by this + movement and to the means of passing from one to another. The + aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth + of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and the Judean Sages in + theory; according to historical events, it was elaborated and + enlarged by their followers initiated in this plan. + + “These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, with + the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head should be composed of + the Jewish Government initiated in the plans of the Wise Men + (always masked even to their people), and the body—the Jewish + nation. + + “Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has undermined + or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, according to + their growth, in various continents, but particularly in Europe, + which he should do also in the future, following exactly the + outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road travelled by it + will close by the return of the head of the Snake to Zion,—that is, + until this snake will include in the sphere of its circle all + Europe, and through Europe the whole world, utilizing all forces + conquered by economic means in order to draw the other continents + into the sphere of its cycle.... + + “For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has made it + possible to carry out everything that was desirable in the + interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities + commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the majority + of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that the decisions + of that majority became the determining factor in questions of + national life. The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent + class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also + rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the republican is the most + desirable and convenient form of government for Zion because it + gives full sway for the activities of the armies of Zion—for + anarchists of thought and action, called socialists. + + “All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands of the + nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the ocean of + humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, every member of + which is familiarized with the plan of action worked out in the + course of centuries, from which he cannot deviate. The politics of + the goyim is the politics of accidental circumstances, engineered + by the Jews, and tends not towards perfecting the affairs of the + state, but towards struggle for the sake of greed, or more often + for the personal aggrandizement of the administrators. + + “From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory and the + guidance of the world. + + “Translation from the French, December 9, 1901.” + + + + +CHAPTER SIX + +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905—The Unsuccessful Revolution—The Reaction and the +Reactionaries—Lutostansky and His Work—The “Symbolic Snake” According to +Lutostansky—Who Plagiarized?—Lutostansky on the English People—Are the +English the “Lost Tribes”?—How the Protocols Were “Doctored” by +Butmi—Conclusion. + + +As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the “literature” +produced under the auspices of the Russian Black Hundred organizations +which sought to save the Czar’s throne by pogroms, I examined a large +number of publications brought out in Russia during the period when “the +Russian Mystic,” Sergius Nilus, published his pretended discovery, the +“Protocols.” His book, “The Great in the Small and anti-Christ,” +appeared in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian +revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar’s government. A new +organization was formed for the support of the Russian throne. It was +known as “the Union of the Russian People,”—“the Black Hundred,”—whose +program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia adopted a definite, +anti-Jewish policy of vengeance—a pogrom policy. The “Black Hundred” +held the Jews responsible for Russia’s defeat in the war and for the +attempted revolution,—and neither the Czar nor his loyal organization of +the “Black Hundred” ever forgave Count Sergius Witte, who won for Russia +at the Portsmouth Peace Conference what she had lost on the +battlefields, for inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to +Russia. “The Black Hundreds” nicknamed Witte “the Jewish Count of +Portsmouth.” They attacked him and attempted to assassinate him. They +assassinated at that time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and +Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobomania that Sergius +Nilus published his book introducing the “Protocols” in Russia. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF LUTOSTANSKY’S BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1907 +CONTAINING ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-BRITISH ATTACKS.] + +[Transcription: +ТАЛМУДЪ и ЕВРЕИ + +Талмудъ есть религіозный катехизисъ. + +Евреи и дѣянія ихъ по ученію талмуда. + + +Компиляція изъ разныхъ талмудовъ и комментаріевъ члена-сотрудника +Императорскаго Православнаго Палестинскаго Общества + +Дворянина отставного учителя класс. гимназіи. + +_И. Лютостанскаго._ + +КНИГА ШЕСТАЯ. + +ИЗДАНІЕ ТРЕТЬЕ + +исправленное и значительно дополненное. + + +ИЗДАТЕЛЬ + +А. Н. Першинъ. + +С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ + +Типографія Т-ва „СВѢТЪ“, Невскій, 136. + +1907. +] + +[Transliteration: +TALMUD i EVREI + +Talmud est' religioznyj katehizis. + +Evrei i dejanija ih po ucheniju talmuda. + + +Kompiljacija iz raznyh talmudov i kommentariev chlena-sotrudnika +Imperatorskago Pravoslavnago Palestinskago Obshhestva + +Dvorjanina otstavnogo uchitelja klass. gimnazii. + +_I. Ljutostanskago._ + +KNIGA SHESTAJA. + +IZDANIE TRET'E + +ispravlennoe i znachitel'no dopolnennoe. + + +IZDATEL' + +A. N. Pershin. + +S.-PETERBURG + +Tipografija T-va „SVET“, Nevskij, 136. + +1907. +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY’S BOOK, “THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS,” PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transcription: +Объясненіе сіонскаго символическаго змѣя. + + +[Illustration: П]редставленный политическій планъ +въ образѣ змія, очень древній, былъ +измышленъ іудейскими мудрецами въ +теоріи, по мѣрѣ же историческихъ событій +разрабатываемъ и дополняемъ просвѣщенными +въ этомъ послѣдователями. +Эти мудрецы рѣшили мирно завоевать +міръ для Cioнa, съ хитростью символическаго +змія. Глава змія изображаетъ +мудрецовъ сіонскихъ, а—туловище народъ +іудейскій. Проползая въ государственныя +нѣдра, змій этотъ подтачиваетъ или пожираетъ +всѣ не іудейскія государственныя +силы, по мѣрѣ ихъ роста на разныхъ +континентахъ, но особенно въ Европѣ, +что онъ долженъ дѣлать и въ будущемъ, +при точномъ слѣдованіи по предначертаніямъ +плана, до тѣхъ поръ, пока циклъ пройденнаго +имъ пути не сомкнется возвратомъ главы змія на +Сіонъ, то есть пока этотъ змій не заключитъ въ сферѣ +своего круга всю Европу, а черезъ нее весь міръ. Первымъ +дѣломъ стараются внести вездѣ безвѣріе и упадокъ нравственности, +пользуясь всѣми завоеванными экономическимъ +] + +[Transliteration: +Ob'jasnenie sionskago simvolicheskago zmeja. + + +[Illustration: P]redstavlennyj politicheskij plan +v obraze zmija, ochen' drevnij, byl +izmyshlen iudejskimi mudrecami v +teorii, po mere zhe istoricheskih sobytij +razrabatyvaem i dopolnjaem prosveshhennymi +v etom posledovateljami. +Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' +mir dlja Ciona, s hitrost'ju simvolicheskago +zmija. Glava zmija izobrazhaet +mudrecov sionskih, a—tulovishhe narod +іudejskij. Propolzaja v gosudarstvennyja +nedra, zmij etot podtachivaet ili pozhiraet +vse ne iudejskija gosudarstvennyja +sily, po mere ih rosta na raznyh +kontinentah, no osobenno v Evrope, +chto on dolzhen delat' i v budushhem, +pri tochnom sledovanii po prednachertanijam +plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago +im puti ne somknetsja vozvratom glavy zmija na +Sion, to est' poka etot zmij ne zakljuchit v sfere +svoego kruga vsju Evropu, a cherez nee ves' mir. Pervym +delom starajutsja vnesti vezde bezverie i upadok nravstvennosti, +pol'zujas' vsemi zavoevannymi ekonomicheskim +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY’S BOOK, “THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS,” PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transcription: + +iv + +путемъ силами, чтобы завлечь въ сферу своего цикла остальные +континенты. Такъ какъ возвратъ главы змія могъ совершиться +лишь по сглаженнымъ развалинамъ государственной +мощи всѣхъ европейскихъ странъ, черезъ паденіе этой мощи, +отъ экономическаго разстройства и разоренія, всюду вносимаго +Сіономъ черезъ нравственный упадокъ. Растлѣніе, +вносимое съ помощью жидовокъ, выдающихъ себя за француженокъ +и итальянокъ, которыя даже фиктивно принимаютъ +и крещеніе, потомъ дѣлаются женами важныхъ лицъ, +на подобіе библейской Есфири, а при нихъ всегда сопутствуютъ +Мардохеи и производятъ свою политику въ +пользу жидовства. Эти-то мнимыя француженки и итальянки +являются самыми лучшими носительницами распутства +нравовъ съ мѣста на мѣсто. Эти женщины служатъ для +тѣхъ, которые, благодаря имъ, всегда нуждаются въ деньгахъ, +а потому охотно торгуютъ совѣстью, чтобы добыть +денегъ во что бы то ни стало. Деньги же только +ссужаются такимъ торговцамъ совѣсти, что быстро возвращаются +въ руки, ссужавшія ихъ, потому что съ помощью +тѣхъ же женщинъ растрачиваются скоро послѣ +ихъ полученія. Сіонскія сѣти разставлены на всѣхъ путяхъ +„гоевъ“ и циклъ змія подвигается въ XX столѣтіи +быстротой курьерскаго движенія къ намѣченной своей цѣли. + +Полное изложеніе всѣхъ таинственныхъ протоколовъ +Сіонскихъ жидовскихъ мудрецовъ, весь планъ завоевания +всего міра, будетъ помѣщено въ VII-мъ слѣдующемъ томѣ +„Талмудъ и евреи“. Къ дѣйствіямъ тайнаго сіонскаго змія +относится и клевета наглая, взведенная на уважаемаго +во всей Россіи о. протоіерея Іоанна Кронштадтскаго. Все +это дѣйствіе жидовъ, обнаглѣвшихъ въ послѣднее время +для подрыва православной религіи и поколебанія вѣры народовъ, +уваженія святости церкви и преданности Царю +и отечеству. Всѣ газеты, печать и книжная торговля находятся +уже въ жидовскихъ рукахъ, чего же имъ больше? +Вся Г. Дума была уже подъ жидовской командою. Теперь +остается только поколебать, а потомъ опрокинуть хри- +] + +[Transliteration: + +iv + +putem silami, chtoby zavlech' v sferu svoego cikla ostal'nye +kontinenty. Tak kak vozvrat glavy zmija mog sovershit'sja +lish' po sglazhennym razvalinam gosudarstvennoj +moshhi vseh evropejskih stran, cherez padenie etoj moshhi, +ot ekonomicheskago razstrojstva i razorenija, vsjudu vnosimago +Sionom cherez nravstvennyj upadok. Rastlenie, +vnosimoe s pomoshh'ju zhidovok, vydajushhih sebja za francuzhenok +i ital'janok, kotoryja dazhe fiktivno prinimajut +i kreshhenie, potom delajutsja zhenami vazhnyh lic, +na podobie biblejskoj Esfiri, a pri nih vsegda soputstvujut +Mardohei i proizvodjat svoju politiku v +pol'zu zhidovstva. Eti-to mnimyja francuzhenki i ital'janki +javljajutsja samymi luchshimi nositel'nicami rasputstva +nravov s mesta na mesto. Eti zhenshhiny sluzhat dlja +teh, kotorye, blagodarja im, vsegda nuzhdajutsja v den'gah, +a potomu ohotno torgujut sovest'ju, chtoby dobyt' +deneg vo chto by to ni stalo. Den'gi zhe tol'ko +ssuzhajutsja takim torgovcam sovesti, chto bystro vozvrashhajutsja +v ruki, ssuzhavshija ih, potomu chto s pomoshh'ju +teh zhe zhenshhin rastrachivajutsja skoro posle +ih poluchenija. Sionskija seti razstavleny na vseh putjah +„goev“ i cikl zmija podvigaetsja v XX stoletii +bystrotoj kur'erskago dvizhenija k namechennoj svoej celi. + +Polnoe izlozhenie vseh tainstvennyh protokolov +Sionskih zhidovskih mudrecov, ves' plan zavoevanija +vsego mira, budet pomeshheno v VII-m sledujushhem tome +„Talmud i evrei“. K dejstvijam tajnago sionskago zmija +otnositsja i kleveta naglaja, vzvedennaja na uvazhaemago +vo vsej Rossii o. protoiereja Ioanna Kronshtadtskago. Vse +eto dejstvie zhidov, obnaglevshih v poslednee vremja +dlja podryva pravoslavnoj religii i pokolebanija very narodov, +uvazhenija svjatosti cerkvi i predannosti Carju +i otechestvu. Vse gazety, pechat' i knizhnaja torgovlja nahodjatsja +uzhe v zhidovskih rukah, chego zhe im bol'she? +Vsja G. Duma byla uzhe pod zhidovskoj komandoju. Teper' +ostaetsja tol'ko pokolebat', a potom oprokinut' hri- +] + +In my investigation I naturally examined the works of the Russian arch +anti-Semite, Ippolit Lutostansky, who first accused the Jews of the most +despicable crimes, and then, in 1882, after the occurrence of the +pogroms in the south of Russia, wrote a volume retracting all his +previous anti-Jewish accusations, and declaring anti-Semitism to be +nothing but an outgrowth of ignorance and malice. Several years later he +resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and became one of the most vicious +vilifiers of the Jewish people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair +which was staged by the Russian government for the purpose of +discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian governmental +anti-Jewish policy before the world. After the collapse of the Beilis +prosecution, which involved the absurd charge of ritual murder, +Lutostansky approached several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to +retract his new charges against the Jews, provided they would pay him a +certain amount of money for his book. The Jews declined to have anything +to do with the charlatan who had caused so much harm to the Jews of +Russia by his monstrous accusations. His works attracted special +attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and supported by +Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager Empress of Russia. + +While examining one of his books entitled, “The Talmud and the Jews,” +published in 1907, in which he promised the publication of “the +Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion” in his forthcoming volume, I came +upon an amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged secret +plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which I find reproduced, +word for word, with but a few phrases changed, in the epilogue of “the +Russian mystic,” Sergius Nilus. Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize +Lutostansky? Or was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus? Or were they +one and the same person? At any rate, both served the purposes of the +“Black Hundreds” against the Jews, and both employed the same weapons. + +Here is a translation of Lutostansky’s introduction: + + From Lutostansky’s Introduction, 1907 + + EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE + + “The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very old + and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the course + of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented by their + initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the world + peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. The head + of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body—the Judaean + nation. Crawling into the bosoms of governments, this snake + undermines eats away all non-Judaean governmental forces, as they + grow on various continents, but especially in Europe, which it is + to do also in the future, carefully following the outlined plan, + until the cycle of the road travelled by it is completed by the + return of the head of the snake to Zion,—that is until this snake + will include within the sphere of its circle the whole of Europe, + and through Europe the whole world. First of all they are + endeavoring to introduce everywhere irreligion and moral decadence, + utilizing all forces they have won economically in order to drag + the other continents into the sphere of their cycle. As the return + of the head of the snake could be accomplished only over the razed + ruins of the governmental power of all European countries, through + the collapse of this power, through economic disorganization and + ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of moral decadence. + Corruption is introduced with the aid of Jewesses under the guise + of French or Italian women, who even undergo fictitious baptism for + these purposes and then become the wives of prominent men, like the + biblical Esther, and they are always accompanied by their + Mordecais, and make their politics for the good of the Jews. These + so-called French and Italian women are the best carriers of + immorality from place to place. These women are used for those who, + because of them, are always in need of money, and therefore + willingly barter their conscience to secure money at any cost. The + money is reality only loaned to such conscience-barterers, for it + quickly comes back to the hands of those loaned the money, as it + is squandered with the aid of these women soon after they receive + it. The Zionist nets are spread out on all the roads of the goyim + (gentiles) and the cycle of the snake is moving along in the + Twentieth century with the speed of an express train towards its + goal. + + “The complete outline of all the secret protocols of the Zionist + Jewish sages, the entire plan of the conquest of the whole world, + will be included in the next (seventh) volume of ‘The Talmud and + the Jews.’” + +And this is a facsimile reproduction and translation of Sergius Nilus’s +epilogue taken from the copy of the “Protocols” in the British Museum, +from which the American translation was made. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF PAGE OF SERGE NILUS’S BOOK CONTAINING THE PROTOCOLS SHOWING +THE SAME PASSAGE AS IN LUTOSTANSKY’S BOOK.] + +[Transcription: + —395— + + торыя въ Малой Азіи будутъ поддерживаемы французской + дипломатіей. + + Конечно, это требованіе льготы не касается католическихъ + учрежденій, изгоняемыхъ изъ Франціи нѣсколькими + послѣдними составами ея правительства, а доказываетъ лишь, + что Дрейфусаровская дипломатія выступаетъ за интересы + Сіона и открываетъ путь для колонизаціи французскими евреями + Малой Азіи. + + Сіонъ всегда завоевывалъ себѣ мѣста и вліяніе черезъ + свой рабочій скотъ съ человѣческими лицами, какъ называетъ + Талмудъ все не-еврейское человѣчество. + + По даннымъ тайнаго еврейскаго Сіонизма, Соломономъ и + другими Іудейскими мудрецами еще за 929 лѣтъ до Рождества + Христова былъ измышленъ въ теоріи политическій + планъ мирнаго завоеванія для Сіона вселенной. По мѣрѣ + развитія историческихъ событій, планъ этотъ былъ разрабатываемъ + и пополняемъ посвященными въ это дѣло послѣдователями[1]. + + Эти мудрецы рѣшили мирно завоевать міръ для Сіона + хитростью Символическаго Змія, главу котораго должно было + составлять посвященное въ планы мудрецовъ правительство + евреевъ (всегда замаскированные даже отъ своего народа), + а туловище—народъ Іудейскій. Проникая въ нѣдра встрѣчаемыхъ + имъ на пути государствъ, Змій этотъ подтачивалъ + и пожиралъ (свергая ихъ) всѣ государственныя, не-еврейскія, + силы, по мѣрѣ ихъ роста. Это же долженъ онъ дѣлать + и въ будущемъ при точномъ слѣдованіи предначертаніямъ + плана, до тѣхъ поръ, пока циклъ пройденнаго имъ пути + не сомкнется возвратомъ Главы его на Сіонѣ и пока, такимъ + образомъ, Змій не заключитъ, не сосредоточитъ въ + сферѣ своего круга всей Европы, а черезъ нее и + остальной міръ, пользуясь всѣми силами—завоеваніемъ и + экономическимъ путемъ, чтобы подчинить своему вліянію, + вліянію своего цикла, и остальные контингенты. Возвратъ + + [Footnote 1: Ап. Павелъ, какъ одинъ изъ наиболѣе даровитыхъ учениковъ фарисейской + школы, не могъ не быть посвященъ въ эту „тайну беззаконія, + находившуюся въ дѣйствіи“ и въ его время. Отсюда особая злоба + гоненія на него со стороны воинствующаго Израиля.] +] + +[Transliteration: + -395- + toryja v Maloj Azii budut podderzhivaemy francuzskoj + diplomatiej. + + Konechno, eto trebovanie l'goty ne kasaetsja katolicheskih + uchrezhdenij, izgonjaemyh iz Francii neskol'kimi + poslednimi sostavami eja pravitel'stva, a dokazyvaet lish', + chto Drejfusarovskaja diplomatija vystupaet za interesy + Siona i otkryvaet put' dlja kolonizacii francuzskimi evrejami + Maloj Azii. + + Sion vsegda zavoevyval sebe mesta i vlijanie cherez + svoj rabochij skot s chelovecheskimi licami, kak nazyvaet + Talmud vse ne-evrejskoe chelovechestvo. + + Po dannym tajnago evrejskago Sionizma, Solomonom i + drugimi Iudejskimi mudrecami eshhe za 929 let do Rozhdestva + Hristova byl izmyshlen v teorii politicheskij + plan mirnago zavoevanija dlja Siona vselennoj. Po mere + razvitija istoricheskih sobytij, plan etot byl razrabatyvaem + i popolnjaem posvjashhennymi v eto delo posledovateljami[1]. + + Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' mir dlja Siona + hitrost'ju Simvolicheskago Zmija, glavu kotorago dolzhno bylo + sostavljat' posvjashhennoe v plany mudrecov pravitel'stvo + evreev (vsegda zamaskirovannye dazhe ot svoego naroda), + a tulovishhe—narod Iudejskij. Pronikaja v nedra vstrchaemyh + im na puti gosudarstv, Zmij etot podtachival + i pozhiral (svergaja ih) vse gosudarstvennyja, ne-evrejskija, + sily, po mere ih rosta. Eto zhe dolzhen on delat' + i v budushhem pri tochnom sledovanii prednachertanijam + plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago im puti + ne somknetsja vozvratom Glavy ego na Sione i poka, takim + obrazom, Zmij ne zakljuchit, ne sosredotochit v + sfere svoego kruga vsej Evropy, a cherez nee i + ostal'noj mir, pol'zujas' vsemi silami—zavoevaniem i + ekonomicheskim putem, chtoby podchinit' svoemu vlijaniju, + vlijaniju svoego cikla, i ostal'nye kontingenty. Vozvrat + + [Footnote 1: Ap. Pavel, kak odin iz naibolee darovityh uchenikov farisejskoj + shkoly, ne mog ne byt' posvjashhen v etu „tajnu bezzakonija, + nahodivshujusja v dejstvii“ i v ego vremja. Otsjuda osobaja zloba + gonenija na nego so storony voinstvujushhago Izrailja.] +] + + From the Nilus Epilogue, 1917 + + “According to secret Jewish Zionism, a political plan was devised + in theory for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, by + Solomon and other sages already 929 years before the birth of + Christ. In the course of historical developments, the plan was + elaborated and augmented by their followers initiated in this + affair. These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for + Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake, whose head should + constitute the government of the Jews initiated in the plans of the + sages (always masked even from their own people) and the body—the + Judean nation. Penetrating the bosoms of the governments + encountered on the way, this snake has undermined and eaten away + (overthrowing) all governments, non-Jewish forces according to + their growth. + + “This it should also do in the future, carefully following the + outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is + completed by the return of the head of the snake to Zion, and until + the snake will thus include and concentrate in the sphere of its + circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the rest of the + world, utilizing all forces of conquest and by economic means in + order to subject also the other continents to its influence, to the + influence of its cycle. The return of the head of the snake could + be accomplished only over the razed plains of the governmental + power of all the European countries,—that is through economic + disorganization and ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of + spiritual decadence and moral turpitude, chiefly, with the aid of + Jewish women under the guise of French, Italian and Spanish women, + the best introducers of immorality into the conduct of the rulers + of nations. Women in the hands of Zion serve as bait for those, who + owing to them are always in need of money, and therefore barter + their conscience in order to get money at any cost. This money, in + fact, is only loaned to them, for it quickly comes back to the + hands of bribing Zion through these very women, and at the same + time they have secured slaves for Zion.” + +A comparison of these pages shows that Nilus merely added to +Lutostansky’s version the statement to be found in Butmi’s version that +the political plan for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, was +devised in theory by Solomon and other sages _929 years before the birth +of Christ_. Lutostansky said in 1907 that “the head of the snake +represents the sages of Zion, and the body—the Judean nation,” while +Nilus said that the “head should constitute the government of the Jews +initiated in the plans of the sages (always masked even from their own +people) and the body—the Judean nation.” Thus the sages of Zion were +transformed by Nilus into “the government of the Jews” in order to +connect the “political plan” all the more closely with the “protocols.” +The American editors have omitted this part of the Nilus epilogue, +evidently because it seemed even to them too absurd for American +consumption. + +All of the literature about the “protocols” that appeared in various +parts of the world in 1920 is based on the “documents” vouched for by +the mysterious Sergius Nilus, and fortified by the irresponsible +Jew-baiter and intellectual pervert Ippolit Lutostansky. + +That the Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi campaign was just what the Tsarist +government desired may be seen from the photographic reproduction of +the letter sent to Lutostansky by Grand Duke Michael, who was regarded +as the most liberal among the Russian Grand Dukes. The letter appears +together with other letters of congratulation from members of the +Imperial family in the volume containing the passages quoted above. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +LETTER OF THANKS SENT BY GRAND DUKE MICHAEL TO LUTOSTANSKY FOR HIS +ANTI-SEMITIC WORK.] + +[Transcription: +Состоящій при +Его Императорскомъ Высочествѣ +Государѣ Наслѣдникѣ +и +великомъ князѣ +Михаилѣ Александровичѣ + +7 Ноября 1902 г. +№ 1443. +С.-Петербургъ. + +Его Высокоблагородію +И. І. Лютостанскому. + +Копія. + +Милостивый Государь + +Ипполитъ Іосифовичъ. + +ЕГО ИМПЕРАТОРСКОЕ ВЫСОЧЕСТВО +ГОСУДАРЬ НАСЛѢДНИКЪ и ВЕЛИКІЙ +КНЯЗЬ МИХАИЛЪ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧЪ +соизволилъ благосклонно принять +поднесенный Вами трудъ „Талмудъ и евреи“, +причемъ ЕГО ВЫСОЧЕСТВУ благоугодно +было поручить мнѣ передать Вамъ ЕГО +искреннюю признательность за Ваше поднесеніе. + +Благоволите принять и мою личную +глубокую признательность за присланный +мнѣ экземпляръ Вашей книги. + +Прошу Васъ принять увѣреніе въ совершенномъ +моемъ уваженіи и искренней +преданности. + +Всегда готовый къ услугамъ Д. Дашковъ. +] + +[Transliteration: +Sostojashhij pri +Ego Imperatorskom Vysochestve +Gosudare Naslednike +i +velikom knjaze +Mihaile Aleksandroviche + +7 Nojabrja 1902 g. +№ 1443. +S.-Peterburg. + +Ego Vysokoblagorodiju +I. I. Ljutostanskomu. + +Kopija. + +Milostivyj Gosudar' + +Ippolit Iosifovich. + +EGO IMPERATORSKOE VYSOCHESTVO +GOSUDAR' NASLEDNIK I VELIKIJ +KNJAZ' MIHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH +soizvolil blagosklonno prinjat' +podnesennyj Vami trud „Talmud i evrei“, +prichem EGO VYSOCHESTVU blagougodno +bylo poruchit' mne peredat' Vam EGO +iskrennjuju priznatel'nost' za Vashe podnesenie. + +Blagovolite prinjat' i moju lichnuju +glubokuju priznatel'nost' za prislannyj +mne ekzempljar Vashej knigi. + +Proshu Vas prinjat' uverenie v sovershennom +moem uvazhenii i iskrennej +predannosti. + +Vsegda gotovyj k uslugam D. Dashkov. +] + +For the benefit of the antisemitic agitators in England, such as the +editors of The Morning Post, The New Witness, The Spectator, Blackwood’s +Magazine, and a number of irresponsible publications needless to name, +it will prove instructive and interesting to reproduce a few additional +passages from the same volume, in order that they may know and +appreciate not only what that authority said concerning the Jews but +also what he thought of the English. + +On pages 279, 282 and 283 of volume six of “The Talmud and the Jews,” +after outlining the alleged Jewish plot to gain world dominion, +Lutostansky wrote, in 1907: + + “The English are typical pure-blooded Israelites. In ancient times + they were all red-headed, as we see from the descriptions in the + Bible and the New Testament. The characteristic of the Israelites + is known to the whole world under the sun. The characteristic of + the English, if we follow it closely, does not differ from the + Jewish in the slightest degree. Who are the English? This question + has long occupied the minds of many people in Europe, as well as in + England itself. The universal trading traits of the sons of Albion, + their looting politics, based on unfair business, and many other + characteristic traits of the nation which are not peculiar to any + of the other European nations that are even less cultured and + civilized that the English—all these have long seemed very + suspicious and have drawn attention to a certain kinship between + the Anglo-Saxons and the Jews. During the past two decades, in + England and America, also on the European continent, particularly + in France, a whole literature has been created, proving on the + basis of many facts, suppositions and historical references, that + the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race is not Germanic, but Semitic, + that the English are the direct descendants of the Israelites, + thrown by historic fate to the shores of the distant Albion.... + + “Indeed, the lion of Judah, has become the British lion and adorns + the coat of arms of the King of England. The harp of King David to + this day represents the coat of arms of Ireland.... + + “But not only are the kings of England the direct descendants of + Jewish Kings, they are even seated on the throne of David, on which + the ancient Jewish kings were married. This throne, on which Jacob + fell asleep on that night when he dreamt of the ladder and when the + Lord promised the kingdom to his posterity. This stone, called ‘the + Stone of Fate,’ which served for the weddings of Jewish Kings, was + brought to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah. Tergus (?) transferred + it to Scotland, whence it was taken to London. + + “It is curious to note that many prophecies about this fate of + Israel fit England absolutely, as for instance, the prophesy that + Israel will become a great nation, a kingdom on islands, ruling + over large colonies. + + “North America is inhabited by the tribe of Menasseh of whom it was + said in ancient prophesy that he will become a ‘separate great + nation.’ The very word _saxon_ is derived from _Isaacson_, that is + the son of Israel.... + + “As one of the signs of kinship between the population of England + and ancient Israel, we cannot help pointing out the close + similarity between the English and Jewish tribes, the similarity in + their manner of speech, and above all, trading as the fundamental + characteristic of both nations.... + + “The particular reverence in which the English hold the Bible + smacks of the Old Testament of the Jews. Even the preference on the + part of the English for long clothes indicates something + Asiatic.... + + “Arousing of late the unanimous indignation of the whole civilized + world, the English at the same time call forth amazement at their + traits, instincts and aspirations which positively make them a + monster in the family of cultured and civilized European nations. + As the proverb says, there is no family without a black sheep. + Every monstrosity, however, is to be explained—Jews come from + Jews.” + + * * * * * + +This interesting information is taken from Lutostansky’s book. Nilus and +other writers of the Black Hundred camp pictured England in the same +manner immediately after 1905. It was then the Russian governmental +policy to discredit England and the Jews in the eyes of the Russian +people, and the Black Hundreds were employed by the Tsar as the medium +through which to carry on this agitation. + +The “Black Hundreds” started their campaign in 1905, but their work was +so venomous, so absurd and so steeped in ignorance that there were few +people even in Russia who paid any attention to it. + +That the Nilus protocols which were published by the Black Hundreds were +not taken seriously in Russia by the reactionaries or even by the Black +Hundreds who sought every means of discrediting the Jews, may be +gathered from the fact that in the most stupendous anti-Jewish plot ever +devised by the Russian government to justify Jewish massacres,—the +notorious Beilis case,—the protocols published eight years previously +were never used by the prosecution, even though it resorted to every +foul means that could be conjured up of slandering and vilifying the +Jewish people. The very persons who were instrumental in spreading the +“protocols” in Russia in 1905 seemed to have realized that the false +accusations which they contained were too transparent and too clumsy to +deceive even the most credulous, and so they were discarded. + +But suddenly, after the armistice, a new edition of the Nilus book +containing the “protocols,” dated 1917, made its appearance as suitable +to the chaotic conditions that prevailed in Russia and during the past +two years, as has been shown, it was reproduced in various countries. +This time the antisemitic propagandists are trying to connect the +“protocols” directly with Theodore Herzl and the Zionist movement. The +war, the peace treaty and bolshevism are characterized as the +fulfillment of these “protocols” which they say had been devised no less +than 929 years before the birth of Christ, by Solomon and other Sages. +The present “protocols” have been elaborated from the +“Retcliffe-Goedsche” versions by the Russian secret police department +and the Black Hundreds who ascribed all the evils in the world to the +Jews. + +The Black Hundred writer, G. Butmi, whose book “Enemies of the Human +Race,” containing the fabricated speech by a “famous Rabbi” side by side +with the “protocols,” gives several characteristic passages in his +introduction that will convey to the reader a clear conception of the +type of men who have stood behind the movement to discredit the Jews +through the so-called “protocols.” + +On page 36 of this volume, Butmi wrote: + + “The French Revolution, which ended in the execution of Louis XVI + in 1793, was engineered by England with the aid of the Jews and the + Judaized Masons. Only the Jews profited by the French Revolution, + even as they profited by the English Revolution, attaining in the + general turmoil equal rights with the native population of France.” + +Discussing the traits of the English people and finding a similarity +between them and the Jews, Butmi said on page 38: + + “The British traits are well known all over the world—their + exceptional selfishness, their inhuman cruelty to foreigners, their + inherent instinct of exploitation, their theoretical stupidity are + mingled with practical shrewdness and utter brazenness.” + +On page 39 he said: + + “Meanwhile the Britons have not distinguished themselves in + anything, if we are not to take into consideration the fact that + being thoroughly incapable of creating their own language, they + have by their talent to distort languages given to the present + English people a repulsive Judeo-Carthaginian imprint through their + shameless self-satisfaction, arrogance and treacherous + inclinations.” + +On page 41 he said: + + “In 1843 the first lodge of the new Jewish union ‘Bnai Brith’ was + organized in New York. Gradually this Jewish ‘Bnai Brith’ + concentrates in its hands the direction of all Masonic lodges in + America, and through them it directs American politics.” + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF A NILUS PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1905. PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE +BOOK IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.] + +[Transcription: +—364— + +Кто заподозритъ тогда, что всѣ эти проблемы были подстроены +нами по политическому плану, котораго никто не +раскусилъ въ теченіи многихъ вѣковъ?!. .... + + +Еще протоколъ. + +Когда мы воцаримся намъ не желательно будет существованіе +другой религіи, кромѣ нашей о Единомъ Богѣ, +съ Которымъ наша судьба связана его избраніемъ и Которымъ +та же наша судьба объединена съ судьбами міра. +Поэтому мы должны разрушить всякія вѣрованія. +Если отъ этого родятся современные атеисты, то, какъ переходная +ступень это не помѣшаетъ нашимъ видамъ, а послужитъ +примѣромъ для тѣхъ поколѣній, которыя будутъ +слушать проповѣди наши о религіи Моисея, +приведшей своей стойкой и обдуманной системой +къ покоренію намъ всѣхъ народовъ. Въ этомъ мы +подчеркнемъ и мистическую ея правду, въ которой, скажемъ +мы, основывается вся ея воспитательная сила.... . +Тогда при каждом случаѣ мы будемъ публиковать статьи, +въ которыхъ будемъ сравнивать наше благое правленіе съ +прошлыми. Благодѣянія покоя, хотя и вынужденнаго вѣками +волненій, послужатъ къ новому рельефу сказаннаго блага. +Ошибки гоевскихъ администрацій будутъ описываться нами +въ самыхъ яркихъ краскахъ. Мы посѣемъ такое къ нимъ +отвращеніе, что народы предпочтутъ покой въ крѣпостномъ +состояніи правамъ пресловутой свободы, столь +ихъ измучившимъ и истощившимъ самые источники человѣческаго +существованія, которые эксплоатировались толпою +проходимцевъ, не вѣдавшихъ, что творятъ...... Безполезныя +перемѣны правленій, къ которымъ мы подбивали гоевъ, +когда подкапывали ихъ государственныя зданія, до того надоѣдятъ +къ тому времени народамъ, что они предпочтутъ +терпѣть отъ насъ все, лишь бы не рисковать переиспытывать +пережитыя волненія и невзгоды. Мы же особенно будемъ +подчеркивать историческія ошибки гоевскихъ правленій, +столько вѣковъ промучившихъ человѣчество отсутствіемъ + +—365— + +сообразительности во всемъ, что касается истиннаго его +блага, въ погонѣ за фантастическими проектами соціальныхъ +благъ, не замѣчая, что эти проекты все болѣе ухудшали, +а не улучшали положеніе всеобщихъ отношеній, на которыхъ +основывается человѣческая жизнь... + +Вся сила нашихъ принциповъ и мѣропріятій будетъ заключена +въ томъ, что они нами выставятся и истолкуются, +какъ яркій контрастъ разложившимся старымъ порядкамъ +общественнаго строя. + +Наши философы будутъ обсуждать всѣ недостатки гоевскихъ +вѣрованій, но никто никогда не станетъ обсуждать +нашу вѣру съ ея истинной точки зрѣнія, такъ какъ ее +никто основательно не узнаетъ, кромѣ нашихъ, которые +никогда не посмѣютъ выдать ея тайны.. + +Въ странахъ, называемыхъ передовыми, мы создали +безумную, грязную, отвратительную литературу. +Еще нѣкоторое время послѣ вступленія нашего +во власть мы станемъ поощрять ея существованіе, +чтобы она рельефнѣе обрисовала контрастъ +рѣчей, программъ, которыя раздадутся съ высотъ +нашихъ....... Наши умные люди, воспитанные для +руководства гоями, будутъ составлять рѣчи, проекты, +записки, статьи, которыми мы будемъ вліять на +умы, направляя ихъ къ намѣченнымъ нами понятіямъ +и знаніямъ. + + +Еще протоколъ. + +Когда мы, наконецъ окончательно воцаримся при помощи +государственныхъ переворотовъ, всюду подготовленныхъ +къ одному и тому же дню, послѣ окончательнаго признанія +негодности всѣхъ существующихъ правительствъ (а +до этого пройдетъ еще не мало времени, можетъ быть и +цѣлый вѣкъ), мы постараемся, чтобы противъ насъ уже не +было заговоровъ. Для этого мы немилосердно казнимъ всѣхъ +кто встрѣтитъ наше воцареніе съ оружіемъ въ рукахъ. Всякое +новое учрежденіе какого-либо тайнаго общества будетъ +] + +[Transliteration: +-364- + +Kto zapodozrit togda, chto vse eti problemy byli podstroeny +nami po politicheskomu planu, kotorago nikto ne +raskusil v techenii mnogih vekov?!. .... + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my vocarimsja nam ne zhelatel'no budet sushhestvovanie +drugoj religii, krome nashej o Edinom Boge, +s Kotorym nasha sud'ba svjazana ego izbraniem i Kotorym +ta zhe nasha sud'ba ob'edinena s sud'bami mira. +Poetomu my dolzhny razrushit' vsjakija verovanija. +Esli ot etogo rodjatsja sovremennye ateisty, to, kak perehodnaja +stupen' eto ne pomeshaet nashim vidam, a posluzhit +primerom dlja teh pokolenij, kotoryja budut +slushat' propovedi nashi o religii Moiseja, +privedshej svoej stojkoj i obdumannoj sistemoj +k pokoreniju nam vseh narodov. V etom my +podcherknem i misticheskuju eja pravdu, v kotoroj, skazhem +my, osnovyvaetsja vsja eja vospitatel'naja sila.... . +Togda pri kazhdom sluchae my budem publikovat' stat'i, +v kotoryh budem sravnivat' nashe blagoe pravlenie s +proshlymi. Blagodejanija pokoja, hotja i vynuzhdennago vekami +volnenij, posluzhat k novomu rel'efu skazannago blaga. +Oshibki goevskih administracij budut opisyvat'sja nami +v samyh jarkih kraskah. My poseem takoe k nim +otvrashhenie, chto narody predpochtut pokoj v krepostnom +sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, stol' +ih izmuchivshim i istoshhivshim samye istochniki chelovecheskago +sushhestvovanija, kotorye eksploatirovalis' tolpoju +prohodimcev, ne vedavshih, chto tvorjat...... Bezpoleznyja +peremeny pravlenij, k kotorym my podbivali goev, +kogda podkapyvali ih gosudarstvennyja zdanija, do togo nadoedjat +k tomu vremeni narodam, chto oni predpochtut +terpet' ot nas vse, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytyvat' +perezhityja volnenija i nevzgody. My zhe osobenno budem +podcherkivat' istoricheskija oshibki goevskih pravlenij, +stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo otsutstviem + +-365- + +soobrazitel'nosti vo vsem, chto kasaetsja istinnago ego +blaga, v pogone za fantasticheskimi proektami social'nyh +blag, ne zamechaja, chto eti proekty vse bolee uhudshali, +a ne uluchshali polozhenie vseobshhih otnoshenij, na kotoryh +osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'... + +Vsja sila nashih principov i meroprijatij budet zakljuchena +v tom, chto oni nami vystavjatsja i istolkujutsja, +kak jarkij kontrast razlozhivshimsja starym porjadkam +obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' vse nedostatki goevskih +verovanij, no nikto nikogda ne stanet obsuzhdat' +nashu veru s eja istinnoj tochki zrenija, tak kak ee +nikto osnovatel'no ne uznaet, krome nashih, kotorye +nikogda ne posmejut vydat' eja tajny. + +V stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi, my sozdali +bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu. +Eshhe nekotoroe vremja posle vstuplenija nashego +vo vlast' my stanem pooshhrjat' eja sushhestvovanie, +chtoby ona rel'efnee obrisovala kontrast +rechej, programm, kotoryja razdadutsja s vysot +nashih....... Nashi umnye ljudi, vospitannye dlja +rukovodstva gojami, budut sostavljat' rechi, proekty, +zapiski, stat'i, kotorymi my budem vlijat' na +umy, napravljaja ih k namechennym nami ponjatijam +i znanijam. + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my, nakonec okonchatel'no vocarimsja pri pomoshhi +gosudarstvennyh perevorotov, vsjudu podgotovlennyh +k odnomu i tomu zhe dnju, posle okonchatel'nago priznanija +negodnosti vseh sushhestvujushhih pravitel'stv (a +do etogo projdet eshhe ne malo vremeni, mozhet byt' i +celyj vek), my postaraemsja, chtoby protiv nas uzhe ne +bylo zagovorov. Dlja etogo my nemiloserdno kaznim vseh +kto vstretit nashe vocarenie s oruzhiem v rukah. Vsjakoe +novoe uchrezhdenie kakogo-libo tajnago obshhestva budet +] + +[_Translation of the Nilus Protocol published in Russia in 1905._] + +“When we become rulers, we shall regard as undesirable the existence of +any religion except our own, proclaiming one God with Whom our fate is +tied as the Chosen People, and by Whom our fate has been made one with +the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all other +religions. If thereby should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a +transition step, this will not interfere with our aims. It will serve as +an example to coming generations who will listen to the teachings of the +Mosaic religion. By its sound and reasonable system, we have achieved +the subjugation of all nations. We shall emphasize its mystic law in +which we will say lies all power. + +“On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will compare our +beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of peace, though achieved +through centuries of turmoil, will stand out in relief in this era of +blessings. The shortcomings of the Gentile administrations will be +pictured by us in the darkest colors. We will sow such antipathy toward +their governments that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of +servitude to the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them +and destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were +exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were doing. +The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of +administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were +undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate +anything from us rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and +hardships. We will especially emphasize the historical mistakes of the +Gentile administrations which caused mankind to suffer for many +centuries through lack of real understanding in all that concerned its +true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of social welfare and not +noticing that these projects made worse instead of better the state of +general relationships which are the basis of human existences. + +“The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie in that they +are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp contrast to the old and +decayed order of society. + +“Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the Gentile +religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion from the +true point of view except our own people. We shall have a fundamental +knowledge of it and will never dare to disclose its secrets. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transcription: + +75 + +№ 17. + +(по рукописи протоколъ 16-й). + + +Когда мы воцаримся, мы будемъ при каждомъ удобномъ случаѣ +сравнивать Наше благое Правленіе съ прошлыми безалаберными +администраціями... Ошибки гоевскихъ царствъ будутъ описываться +нами въ самыхъ яркихъ краскахъ: мы посѣемъ такое +презрѣніе и отвращеніе къ нимъ, что народы предпочтутъ покой +и миръ въ крѣпостномъ состояніи правамъ пресловутой свободы, +столь измучившей ихъ въ теченіе вѣковъ, истощивъ самые +источники существованія, попираемые проходимцами, не вѣдающими, +что творятъ. + +Безполезныя, де факто, перемѣны правленій, на которыя мы +ихъ подбивали, когда подкапывали ихъ строй, до того имъ надоѣдятъ +до тѣхъ поръ, что они предпочтутъ принять все то, что +мы имъ навяжемъ, лишь бы не рисковать переиспытать пережитыя +невзгоды и волнения, тѣмъ болѣе, что мы будемъ, публичною +критикой, особенно подчеркивать ошибки управленія гоевскихъ +правленій, столько вѣковъ промучившихъ человѣчество +недостаткомъ сообразительности на истинныя блага, въ погонѣ за +фантастическими соціальными улучшеніями, не замѣчая,что, улучшая +бытъ нѣкоторыхъ, мѣры эти ухудшали всеобщія отношенія +и порядокъ строя, на которомъ основывается человѣческая жизнь. + +Наши принципы и мѣры будутъ имѣть въ свою пользу то, что +они будутъ истолкованы и выставлены, какъ контрастъ съ разложившимся +старымъ порядкамъ общественнаго строя. + +Наши философы будутъ обсуждать и критиковать всѣ недостатки +гоевскихъ вѣpoваній, въ чемъ они намъ отвѣтить не могутъ +по отношенію Нашей Вѣры, потому что никто ея тайнъ не +знаетъ, кромѣ нашихъ талмудистовъ и раввиновъ, а они никогда +не выдадутъ ихъ, потому что на нихъ основана сила управленія +паствою нашей. + +Мы создали безумную, грязную, отвратительную литературу, +особенно въ странахъ, называемыхъ передовыми. Послѣ вступленія +нашего во власть мы нѣкоторое время не запретимъ ея, но +будемъ ее искоренять строгою критикой, чтобы она, какъ остатокъ +гоевскихъ руинъ, рельефнѣе обрисовывала контрастъ того, +что раздаваться будетъ съ Нашей Высоты, съ тѣмъ, что исходило +изъ грязнаго болота гоевскихъ царствъ. +] + +[Transliteration: + +75 + +№ 17. + +(po rukopisi protokol 16-j). + + +Kogda my vocarimsja, my budem pri kazhdom udobnom sluchae +sravnivat' Nashe blagoe Pravlenie s proshlymi bezalabernymi +administracijami... Oshibki goevskih carstv budut opisyvat'sja +nami v samyh jarkih kraskah: my poseem takoe +prezrenie i otvrashhenie k nim, chto narody predpochtut pokoj +i mir v krepostnom sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, +stol' izmuchivshej ih v techenie vekov, istoshhiv samye +istochniki sushhestvovanija, popiraemye prohodimcami, ne vedajushhimi, +chto tvorjat. + +Bezpoleznyja, de fakto, peremeny pravlenij, na kotoryja my +ih podbivali, kogda podkapyvali ih stroj, do togo im nadoedjat +do teh por, chto oni predpochtut prinjat' vse to, chto +my im navjazhem, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytat' perezhityja +nevzgody i volnenija, tem bolee, chto my budem, publichnoju +kritikoj, osobenno podcherkivat' oshibki upravlenija goevskih +pravlenij, stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo +nedostatkom soobrazitel'nosti na istinnyja blaga, v pogone za +fantasticheskimi social'nymi uluchshenijami, ne zamechaja, chto, uluchshaja +byt nekotoryh, mery eti uhudshali vseobshhija otnoshenija +i porjadok stroja, na kotorom osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'. + +Nashi principy i mery budut imet' v svoju pol'zu to, chto +oni budut istolkovany i vystavleny, kak kontrast s razlozhivshimsja +starym porjadkam obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' i kritikovat' vse nedostatki +goevskih verovanij, v chem oni nam otvetit' ne mogut +po otnosheniju Nashej Very, potomu chto nikto eja tajn ne +znaet, krome nashih talmudistov i ravvinov, a oni nikogda +ne vydadut ih, potomu chto na nih osnovana sila upravlenija +pastvoju nashej. + +My sozdali bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu, +osobenno v stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi. Posle vstuplenija +nashego vo vlast' my nekotoroe vremja ne zapretim eja, no +budem ee iskorenjat' strogoju kritikoj, chtoby ona, kak ostatok +goevskih ruin, rel'efnee obrisovyvala kontrast togo, +chto razdavat'sja budet s Nashej Vysoty, s tem, chto iskhodilo +iz grjaznago bolota goevskih carstv. +] + + “In countries that are called advanced, we have created a + senseless, filthy, and disgusting literature. For a short time + after our entrance into power, we shall encourage its existence so + that it may show in great relief the contrast between it and the + written and spoken announcements which will emanate from our + exalted position. Our wise men, educated for leadership of the + Gentiles, will prepare speeches, plans, notes, and articles, + through which we shall influence their minds, directing them along + the lines of knowledge and understanding which we intend them to + follow.” + +[_Translation of the same Protocol published by Butmi in Russia in 1907, +showing the changes made in the Protocols within two years._] + + “When we become rulers, we shall at each suitable occasion compare + our beneficent rule with the former unsystematic + administrations.... The mistakes of the administrations of the + Gentiles will be pictured by us in the most lurid colors: we will + sow such antipathy and hatred toward these governments that the + masses will prefer peace and quiet in a condition of servitude to + the rights of the so-called liberty which for many ages had so + tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human existence + and which were exploited by adventurers, who did not realize what + they were doing. + + “The masses will become so satiated with the useless changes of + administration, which we instigated when we were undermining their + institutions, that they will accept anything that we may give them + rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and disorder.... + Moreover, we will, through public criticism, especially emphasize + the mistakes of the Gentile administrations which caused mankind to + suffer for many centuries through lack of real understanding in all + that concerned its true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of + social welfare and not noticing that these projects made worse + instead of better the state of general relationships which are the + basis of human existence. + + “Our principles and faith will be especially useful inasmuch as + they will be put forward and interpreted by us as a contrast to the + old and decayed order of society. + + “Our philosophers will discuss and criticise the shortcomings of + the Gentile religions, but the latter will not be able to answer + with regard to our faith, for no one is acquainted with its + mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists, and they will never + reveal it, for on them depends the power of guiding our flock. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF NILUS PROTOCOL WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1905 AND CHANGED BY +BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transcription: +—345— + +хитростью и пронырливостью во время переговоровъ и соглашеній, +но въ томъ, что называется „офиціальнымъ языкомъ“, +мы будемъ держаться противоположной тактики и +будемъ казаться честными и сговорчивыми. Такимъ образомъ +народы и правительства гоевъ, которыхъ мы пріучили +смотрѣть только на показную сторону того, что мы имъ +представляемъ, примутъ насъ еще за благодѣтелей и спасителей +рода человѣческаго. + +На каждое противодѣйствіе мы должны быть +въ cocтояніи отвѣтить войной съ сосѣдями той +странѣ, которая осмѣлится намъ противодѣйствовать, +но, если и сосѣди эти задумаютъ стать +коллективно противъ насъ, то мы должны дать +отпоръ всеобщей войной. + +Главный успѣхъ въ политикѣ заключается въ тайнѣ ея предпріятій: +слово не должно согласоваться съ дѣйствіями дипломата. + +Къ дѣйствіямъ въ пользу широко задуманнаго нами +плана, уже близящагося къ вожделѣнному концу, мы должны +вынуждать гоевскія правительства якобы общественнымъ +мнѣніемъ, втайнѣ подстроеннымъ нами +при помощи такъ называемой „великой державы“—печати, +которая, за немногими исключеніями, +съ которыми считаться не стоитъ,—вся +уже въ рукахъ нашихъ. + +Однимъ словомъ, чтобы резюмировать нашу систему обузданія +гоевскихъ правительствъ въ Европѣ мы одному изъ +нихъ покажемъ свою силу покушеніями, т.е. терроромъ, +а всѣмъ, если допустить ихъ возстаніе противъ нась, мы +отвѣтимъ Американскими или Китайскими, или +Японскими пушками. + + +Слѣдующій протоколъ. + +Мы должны заручиться для себя всѣми орудіями, которыми +наши противники могли бы воспользоваться противъ +насъ. Мы должны будемъ выискивать въ самыхъ тонкихъ +выраженіяхъ и загвоздкахъ правового словаря оправданія +] + +[Transliteration: +-345- + +hitrost'ju i pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij, +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja „oficial'nym jazykom“, +my budem derzhat'sja protivopolozhnoj taktiki i +budem kazat'sja chestnymi i sgovorchivymi. Takim obrazom +narody i pravitel'stva goev, kotoryh my priuchili +smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju storonu togo, chto my im +predstavljaem, primut nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej +roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my dolzhny byt' +v sostojanii otvetit' vojnoj s sosedjami toj +strane, kotoraja osmelitsja nam protivodejstvovat', +no, esli i sosedi eti zadumajut stat' +kollektivno protiv nas, to my dolzhny dat' +otpor vseobshhej vojnoj. + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slovo ne dolzhno soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomata. + +K dejstvijam v pol'zu shiroko zadumannago nami +plana, uzhe blizjashhagosja k vozhdelennomu koncu, my dolzhny +vynuzhdat' goevskija pravitel'stva jakoby obshhestvennym +mneniem, vtajne podstroennym nami +pri pomoshhi tak nazyvaemoj „velikoj derzhavy“—pechati, +kotoraja, za nemnogimi iskljuchenijami, +s kotorymi schitat'sja ne stoit,—vsja +uzhe v rukah nashih. + +Odnim slovom, chtoby rezjumirovat' nashu sistemu obuzdanija +goevskih pravitel'stv v Evrope my odnomu iz +nih pokazhem svoju silu pokushenijami, t.e. terrorom, +a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie protiv nas', my +otvetim Amerikanskimi ili Kitajskimi, ili +Japonskimi pushkami. + + + +Sledujushhij protokol. + +My dolzhny zaruchit'sja dlja sebja vsemi orudijami, kotorymi +nashi protivniki mogli by vospol'zovat'sja protiv +nas. My dolzhny budem vyiskivat' v samyh tonkih +vyrazhenijah i zagvozdkah pravovogo slovarja opravdanija +] + + “We have created a senseless, filthy and disgusting literature, + especially in the so-called advanced countries. For a short time + after our entrance into power we will not prohibit this literature, + but will weed it out by means of destructive criticism, in order + that, as a remnant of the Gentile ruins, there should be a stronger + contrast between the literature that will come down from Our Height + and that which emanated from the filthy mud of the Gentile + governments.” + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF BUTMI PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1907, SHOWING THE CHANGE MADE +AFTER THE REVOLUTION.] + +[Transcription: +52 + +Для достиженія этого, по всей Европѣ, а съ помощью ея отношеній +и на другихъ континентахъ, мы должны создать броженія, +пререканія, раздоры и вражду. Въ этомъ—двоякая польза: во +первыхъ, мы держимъ въ страхѣ всѣ страны, хорошо вѣдающія, +что мы властны произвести по желанію безпорядки или водворить +порядокъ въ нихъ. Онѣ привыкли видѣть въ насъ необходимое +давленіе: _мы запутали всѣ нити, протянутыя въ Государственные +Кабинеты всемірною политикой, экономическими договорами +или долговыми обязательствами_. Для достиженія этого +послѣдняго обстоятельства намъ надо было вооружиться большою +хитростью и даже пронырливостью во время переговоровъ и соглашеній: +но въ томъ, что называется оффиціальнымъ языкомъ, +мы должны были казаться сговорчивыми и правдивыми. Такимъ +образомъ гои, _которыхъ мы пріучили смотрѣтъ только на показную +сторону того, что мы имъ представляемъ_, принимаютъ +насъ еще за благодѣтелей и спасителей рода человѣческаго. + +На каждое противодѣйствіе мы готовы отвѣтить противодѣйствующей +Странѣ войною съ сосѣдями, а если многіе задумаютъ +коллективно дѣйствовать противъ насъ, то мы завяжемъ узелъ +всеобщей войны, и незамѣтно для нихъ подобьем ихъ на это... + +Главный успѣхъ въ политике заключается въ тайнѣ ея предпріятій: +слова не должны согласоваться съ дѣйствіями дипломатовъ. + +[Transcriber's Note: The following paragraph is circled.] +_Мы успѣшно вынуждали не разъ къ войнѣ гоевскія правительства, +якобы общественнымъ мнѣніемъ, въ тайнѣ подстроеннымъ +нами. Одному изъ нихъ мы доказывали свои силы въ покушеніяхъ—въ +террорѣ, а всѣмъ, если допустить ихъ возстаніе, +мы отвѣтимъ Американскими, Китайскими или Японскими пушками, +которыя всецѣло въ нашемъ распоряжѣніи._ + + +№ 5. + +(по рукописи протоколъ 2-й). + +Намъ необходимо, чтобы войны не давали территориальныхъ +выгодъ. Это перенесетъ войну на экономическую почву, на которой +націи убѣдятся въ томъ, что преобладаніе зависитъ отъ +нашей помощи, а такое положеніе вещей отдастъ обѣ стороны въ +распоряженіе нашей интернаціональной агентуры, обладающей +милліонами глазъ, взоровъ, не прегражденныхъ никакими границами... +Тогда наши интернаціональныя права сотрутъ всѣ народныя +права и будутъ ими править такъ, какъ гражданское +] + +[Transliteration: +52 + +Dlja dostizhenija etogo, po vsej Evrope, a s pomoshh'ju eja otnoshenij +i na drugih kontinentah, my dolzhny sozdat' brozhenija, +prerekanija, razdory i vrazhdu. V etom—dvojakaja pol'za: vo +pervyh, my derzhim v strahe vse strany, horosho vedajushhija, +chto my vlastny proizvesti po zhelaniju bezporjadki ili vodvorit' +porjadok v nih. One privykli videt' v nas neobhodimoe +davlenie: _my zaputali vse niti, protjanutyja v Gosudarstvennye +Kabinety vsemirnoju politikoj, ekonomicheskimi dogovorami +ili dolgovymi objazatel'stvami_. Dlja dostizhenija etogo +poslednjago obstojatel'stva nam nado bylo vooruzhit'sja bol'shoju +hitrost'ju i dazhe pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij: +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja official'nym jazykom, +my dolzhny byli kazat'sja sgovorchivymi i pravdivymi. Takim +obrazom goi, _kotoryh my priuchili smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju +storonu togo, chto my im predstavljaem_, prinimajut +nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my gotovy otvetit' protivodejstvujushhej +Strane vojnoju s sosedjami, a esli mnogie zadumajut +kollektivno dejstvovat' protiv nas, to my zavjazhem uzel +vseobshhej vojny, i nezametno dlja nih podob'em ih na eto... + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slova ne dolzhny soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomatov. + +[Transcriber's Note: The following paragraph is circled.] +_My uspeshno vynuzhdali ne raz k vojne goevskija pravitel'stva, +jakoby obshhestvennym mneniem, v tajne podstroennym +nami. Odnomu iz nih my dokazyvali svoi sily v pokushenijah—v +terrore, a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie, +my otvetim Amerikanskimi, Kitajskimi ili Japonskimi pushkami, +kotoryja vsecelo v nashem rasporjazhenii._ + +№ 5. + +(po rukopisi protokol 2-j). + +Nam neobhodimo, chtoby vojny ne davali territorial'nyh +vygod. Eto pereneset vojnu na ekonomicheskuju pochvu, na kotoroj +nacii ubedjatsja v tom, chto preobladanie zavisit ot +_nashej pomoshhi_, a takoe polozhenie veshhej otdast obe storony v +rasporjazhenie nashej internacional'noj agentury, obladajushhej +millionami glaz, vzorov, ne pregrazhdennyh nikakimi granicami... +Togda nashi internacional'nyja prava sotrut vse narodnyja +prava i budut imi pravit' tak, kak grazhdanskoe +] + +Thus it is seen that Butmi, publishing his version of the “protocols” in +1907, two years after the Nilus version had appeared, changed the text +to suit his purposes. In 1905, before the first Russian revolution, the +Nilus version of the “protocols” said “_we will show one of them our +strength by means of violence, that is, by terrorism_.” After the +revolution, Butmi changed this sentence to read “_We have shown one of +these governments our powers by assassination, by terrorism_.” + +And now the introducers of the “protocols” in this country and in Europe +are pointing to bolshevism as the fulfillment of the “documents” which +have been concocted, elaborated and changed by antisemites to serve the +devious political purposes of their masters and their own. + +The “protocols” came into the world with the trademark, “made in +Germany” and were elaborated under the auspices of the “Russian Black +Hundreds” in their efforts to save the dying Russian autocracy. When the +Russian autocracy was overthrown and members of the “Black Hundreds” +were scattered in various lands, their financial and “moral” support +shattered, they set out in quest of new sources of income. They are now +resorting to their old discredited methods in a new environment and thus +the poison of the Russian Black Hundreds is being spread in England, +Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, Japan, and even in this +country. The voice is the voice of dead despotic Russia, and the hand is +the hand of the same “Black Hundreds.” + +And now cowardly anonymous writers are embellishing the “protocols,” +adding new lies to the old ones, making accusations against the Jews +that even Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi dared not make in darkest Russia. +Perhaps some day these new legends and absurd, malicious myths may +evolve into a new and revised edition of secret Jewish “protocols.” + +In periods of turmoil and unrest such venomous fabrications may gain +credence among the ignorant and may poison their minds. But, like all +anti-semitic myths of old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to +destroy themselves. A lie shuns the sunlight. It thrives in darkness. It +cannot survive analysis. The truth will prevail. + +Israel has no secret protocols, no hidden designs. After all its +tribulations, its dream is still of peace, of justice and of human +brotherhood. After all the centuries the word that came from Sinai and +the message of the prophets of old are still enshrined in its heart. +Indeed as has been aptly said: “The Holy Scriptures are the only +authentic protocols of the Wise Men of Zion.” + +THE END + + + + +Books From +translated by HERMAN BERNSTEIN the Russian + + +=RESURRECTION. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1900.) It depicts with +a master hand the ocean of life rocked by storm and lulled to sleep and +ease. In the splash of every wave is heard the story of human emotions, +misery, disenchantment, suffering, crime, and life, that is true—even in +art. Illustrated. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=“FOMA GORDEYEV.” By Maxim Gorky.= (Published 1901.) This book made +Gorky’s literary reputation in Russia, Germany and France. It is a most +remarkable novel. The New York _Evening Post_ says: + + “Maxim Gorky, the young Russian poet of the vagabond and the + proletariat, the most ardent worshipper at the shrine of Nietzsche + and his ideal ‘Over-Man,’ owes much of his sudden popularity to his + personality. The son of a poor upholsterer, Gorky was thrown upon + his own resources at the age of nine and since then has experienced + a wide range of human emotions, struggles, depravity and misery. + Shoemaker, apple peddler, painter, dock-hand, railroad workman, + baker and tramp, this unique author had a thousand and one similar + occupations, and had even made more than one attempt to take his + own life.” + +This version of =Foma Gordeyev=, is in no way abridged, giving the exact +reproduction of the thought and expression of the author. Cloth bound. +Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED. By Leonid Andreyev.= (Published 1909.) What +reviewers say: + + “It is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more + impressive than any other Russian fiction translated in a long + time. Under the crystal simplicity of Andreyev’s style each spirit + reveals itself, stripped of its bodily covering, in its inmost + truth.”—=New York Times.= + + “Grewsome because it is fearfully real. But it is compelling for + the same reason.”—=New York World.= + + “It is not a mere morbid probing into the abnormal and horrible. It + has its mission. It is a grim and terrible picture, and it is + painted with tremendous art—the art of a Dore.”—=Chicago + Inter-Ocean.= + +Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE FORGED COUPON. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1912.) This story +shows the successive evil and wrong resulting from the forging of a bank +note by a student in need of money. Numerous crimes succeed each other +as a result of this first wrong act, until the wave of crime is checked +by a poor, ignorant woman and a lame tailor, who follow the real +teaching of Christ. The book contains also =After the Ball=, a story of +love and military life; =Korney Vasilyev=, a story of peasant life; +=Tolstoi’s Vital Humanitarian Ideas=, giving the very essence of the +fountain-spring and incentive of all the literary work ever written by +this wonderful man—a peep, as it were, at the power-works of his +thinking machine. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + * * * * * + +=J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 57 Rose Street, NEW YORK= + + +[Transcriber's note: The following apparent misprints were +corrected for this electronic edition. + +"answered the learned Polish Jew" + --was "answerd" +"reactionary Chernsk nobility made" + --was "Chersnk" +"Constantinople!" + --was "Constaninople" +"Our nation is ostentatious and greedy..." + --was missing opening single quote +"sole possessors of all the gold to be found on earth" + --were two blank lines between "all the gold" and "to be found" +"free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts." + --was "scepticsm" +"tremendous capital which is in their possession" + --was "possesson" +"Russia adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of vengeance" + --was "vengenance" +"less cultured and civilized that the English" + --left as printed (unverifiable translation) +"mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists" + --was "Tadmudists" +"historical mistakes of the Gentile" + --was "Gentle" +"must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking" + --left as printed +"The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin" + --was "Nikolayevtich" +Any misprints in Cyrillic facsimile pages are left uncorrected. +The capitalization and hyphenation of anti-Semitic (and variants) +is inconsistent throughout, and left as printed.] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The History of a Lie, by Herman Bernstein + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19200-0.txt or 19200-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/0/19200/ + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Given out as fiction, +by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, +who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was +gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of +the Russian secret police department and of the unscrupulous "Black +Hundreds" then utilized this fiction as the framework for the +"protocols" through which they sought to crush the Jews and prop up the +tottering Russian dynasty._ + +_Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, still dreaming of +their past glory and of a restoration of their privileges, are at work +again, both here and abroad._ + +_Out of the scrapheap of Russian autocracy, they have exhumed their old +weapons and are striking at the Jews again. Upon the structure of the +old myths they are striving to erect new falsehoods in order to +intensify everywhere chaos and confusion and dissatisfaction so that +they may attain their own dastardly and selfish ends._ + +_In the war's aftermath the Jews are being blamed by the minions of +autocracy and reaction for all the ills that have befallen mankind. Some +blame them for the war, and others for the peace. Some attack them for +the defeat of the German military machine, and others for the victory of +the allies. In Germany they are attacked by the Junkers for having +opposed the submarine warfare and thus assured Germany's defeat; while +in some of the allied countries the Jews are denounced for constituting +"the brains of Germany." All the revolutionary leaders of Germany are +credited to the Jews, and bolshevism, which has as little in common with +Judaism as it has with Christianity, is branded as a Jewish movement; +and there are Jew-baiters who in their blind madness have gone so far as +to declare that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was not only influenced by the Jews +but is himself of Jewish descent, and for this reason did not defend +Germany as loyally as he should have done. He conspired against the +Hohenzollern dynasty and undermined it. He destroyed his own throne +because he was serving the secret Jewish world organization._ + +_On such absurdities have people been fed, since the armistice, in +civilized countries by antisemitic agitators and their dupes, while Jews +have been slaughtered in the Ukraine, in Poland and in Hungary._ + +_I submit in this little book the documentary evidence showing how the +so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" on which this new crusade +is predicated, were forged._ + +HERMAN BERNSTEIN. + +_New York, February, 1921._ + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE +FOREWORD 3 + + +CHAPTER ONE +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy--Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?--Anonymous Accusations--The Mysterious +"Protocols" of Sergei Nilus--How did "Nilus" Secure +Them?--Contradictory Explanations--Who is "Nilus"? +How his Sponsors Disagree--What Russian Publicists +Say 7 + + +CHAPTER TWO +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS +WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of "Protocols" Was German Fiction of "Sir John +Retcliffe"--Who Was "Retcliffe"?--His Infamous Record--His +Bloodcurdling Story--The Meeting in the +Cemetery--An Avowed Myth--Meeting Every Hundred +Years Attended by "Representatives of the Twelve +Tribes of Israel"--The "Son of the Accursed" Also Attends +and Provides Comic Interludes 16 + + +CHAPTER THREE +FICTION FORGED INTO "FACT" + +The Lie in its Second Stage--The Tale Becomes "Fact"--The +"Rabbi's" Speech--Its Authenticity Vouched for by +"Retcliffe"--An Illuminating Footnote--A Dedication to +The Russian "Black Hundreds"--The Imaginary +"Speech" Bears Witness to Authenticity of "Protocols," +Themselves Based on "Speech"--Three Stages of the +Lie 43 + + +CHAPTER FOUR +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols--Only "the God-Anointed Tsar of +Russia" Can Save the World--Passages from Nilus +Omitted by Translators--On Tolstoy--On the Emancipation +of Women--On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful +Ally, England" 55 + + +CHAPTER FIVE +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols--"Representatives of Zion" Not to be +Confounded with "Zionists"--Butmi Contradicts Nilus--Plan +for World Conquest Conceived 929 B.C.E.--The +"Symbolic Snake"--Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device--Every +Jew Familiar with Plot 59 + + +CHAPTER SIX +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905--The Unsuccessful Revolution--The Reaction +and the Reactionaries--Lutostansky and His Work--The +"Symbolic Snake" According to Lutostansky--Who +Plagiarized?--Lutostansky on the English People--Are +the English the "Lost Tribes"?--How the Protocols +Were "Doctored" by Butmi--Conclusion 63 + + + + +CHAPTER ONE + +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy--Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?--Anonymous Accusations--The Mysterious "Protocols" of Sergei +Nilus--How did "Nilus" Secure Them?--Contradictory Explanations--Who is +"Nilus"?--How his Sponsors Disagree--What Russian Publicists Say. + + +Is there a Jewish conspiracy against the world or is there a conspiracy +against the Jews? What are the so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men of +Zion?" Who is "the Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus, the sponsor of the +Protocols? What forces are behind the anti-Jewish propaganda that is +international in scope and that seeks at this time to spread all over +the world the poison of prejudice and hatred against the Jews, reviving +long-exploded mediaeval legends? + +Many Americans have asked these questions ever since the publication of +"The Cause of the World Unrest," "The Protocols and World Revolution," +"The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion," and the anti-Jewish articles in +Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent. + +In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports to be a book by one +Sergius Nilus was published in Germany. During 1920 a translation was +published in England under the name of "The Jewish Peril," and under +various titles, in different versions, it was reproduced in the United +States, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and even Japan. The Japanese +edition is in the Russian language. In all these books "the Russian +mystic," Sergius Nilus, is given as the sponsor of a number of secret +"documents" by which it is intended to show that the Jews are +responsible for all the ills that have already befallen the world and +that are still to come. + +The method is simple. Was there a revolution in Russia? Blame the Jews. +Was there a revolution in Germany? Blame the Jews. Who made the French +Revolution? The Jews. Who caused the World War? The Jews. Who profited +by the war? The Jews. Is there anywhere an industrial crisis? The Jews +are, of course, the cause of it. Has the World War brought forth +Bolshevism? The Jews are naturally the fathers of it. First the Jews +engineered the war, and then they pulled the strings behind the scenes +of the Peace Conference. They secured special privileges at the Peace +Table, because, according to the Protocols, they control the gold of the +world, the press of the world, the rulers of the world. And if, as a +result of the World War, millions of Jews have suffered untold agonies, +persecution, starvation, and pogroms, it is no doubt only part of their +deep-laid plot to gain control of the world for Zion through poverty and +suffering! + +Are governments just to the Jews, giving them equal rights? Then it is +obvious that Jews are either at the head of such governments or are +hidden behind the present rulers. If the Jews cannot exert sufficient +influence over the rulers themselves, there are Jewesses in high places, +through whom the cause of Zion is served--and all this is done by the +Jews with but one aim in view--to dominate the world, to become its +autocratic masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom and set +up Israel as "the despot" over the peoples of the earth. According to +the Protocols, all this is engineered with the aid and through the +instrumentality of the Freemasons. + +The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England, France, the +Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United States, basing all their +arguments on the "Protocols" vouched for by "the Russian mystic" Sergius +Nilus, see in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment of +the prophecies outlined by the so-called "Wise Men of Zion" years ago. +The propagandists are violent and vicious, foaming at their mouths, +appealing to the basest passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their +fingers at "the source of all evil"--at the Jews who constitute but a +fraction of one per cent of the world's population, and who are in +Europe to-day, after the close of the World War, more wretched and +miserable than ever before,--persecuted, hounded and starved. + +What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they come to "the Russian +mystic" who revealed them in 1905, and which have now been exhumed from +obscurity for the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point to +the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and confusion? + +Nilus, "the Russian mystic," is credited with several versions of how he +had secured the Protocols, and his stories flatly contradict one +another. In 1905 he said that the Protocols were given to him by a +prominent Russian conservative whose name he did not mention, and who in +turn had received them from an unnamed woman who had stolen them from +"one of the most influential leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a +secret meeting of the initiated in France." Then, several years later, +Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the Protocols from "the +headquarters of the Society of Zion in France." Several years +afterwards, in a new edition of his book, Nilus said that the +"Protocols" came from Switzerland and not from France. This time he +named his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died in the +meantime. He added that the Protocols were not Jewish-Masonic but +Zionist documents secretly read at the Zionist Congress in Basle in +1897. + +Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing the date of 1917. +A translation of this edition has recently appeared in this country, +containing a brand-new explanation as to how the Protocols were rescued +and given to the world. This explanation is taken from the German +version published in Charlottenburg. The introduction to that edition +says that the Protocols, having been read from day to day at the Basle +Congress, were sent as read to Frankfort on the Main. The disclosure of +them came through the infidelity of the messenger. + +The 1917 edition is published with a prologue and an epilogue, like a +drama, which indeed it is, with all the ingredients of melodrama--a +villain, a mysterious woman, a Grand Duke, a conspiracy to destroy the +world, and a saint--Nilus, who convicts himself in his own writings of +falsification in the giving of these various accounts of how the +Protocols came into his possession. + +Nothing is known of Sergius Nilus. Russian standard reference books and +encyclopedias contain no mention of his name. + +The anonymous American editor of the Nilus book gives the following +information about Nilus: + +"Serge Nilus, in the 1905 edition of whose book was first published the +_Zionist Protocols_, was, as he states, born in the year 1862, of +Russian parents holding liberal opinions. His family was fairly well +known in Moscow, for its members were educated people who were firm in +their allegiance to the Tsar and the Greek Church. On one side he is +said to have been connected by marriage with the nobility of the Baltic +provinces. Nilus himself was graduated from the University of Moscow and +early entered the civil service, obtaining a small appointment in the +law courts. Later, he received a post under the Procurator of a +provincial court in the Caucasus. Finally, tiring of the law, he went to +the Government of Orel, where he was a landowner and a noble. His +spiritual life had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he +entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow. 'In answer to his +appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern and angry, appeared to him twice +in a vision. He left the Monastery a converted man.' + +"From 1905 until the present, little is known of his activities. +Articles are said to have appeared from time to time in the Russian +press from his pen. A returning traveller from Siberia in August, 1919, +was positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk in June of that +year. Whether his final fate was that of Admiral Kolchak is not known." + +The American editor of Sergius Nilus's book containing the "Protocols" +is hiding behind anonymity. The name of the traveller from Siberia who +was so positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also +concealed. And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei "appeared twice in a +vision" "is said to have written articles in the Russian press" of which +nobody has knowledge. + +In Germany, Nilus is described as follows: + +"Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret police department, +of the _okhrana_, connected with the Church, especially relating to +'foreign religions.' He lived for some time at the Optina Pustina +monastery. In 1901 he published a book entitled 'The Great in the Small +and the Anti-Christ.' According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus claims to +have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the Protocols from the +secret archives of the Main Zionist organization in France, but he +published the 'protocols' only in 1905. A second edition appeared in +1911, and finally another edition was brought out in the beginning of +1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed." + +"The Cause of the World Unrest," an anonymous book published in England +and reprinted in this country, speaks of Nilus and the "Protocols" as +follows: + +"In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a book entitled _The +Great in Little_. The second edition, which was published at Tsarskoye +Selo in 1905, had an additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading +'Anti-Christ as a Near Political Possibility.' This chapter consisted of +some twenty pages of introduction followed by the text of twenty-four +'Protocols of Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion,' and the book ends +with some twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus. + +"Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by Nilus that they are +'signed by representatives of Zion of the thirty-third degree.' These +protocols were secretly extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of +protocols. All this was got by my correspondent out of the secret +depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This Chancellery is at +present on French territory." + +In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote: + + "My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is only + definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of belief, and + that through Jewish sources, that these protocols are nothing other + than the strategic plans for the conquest of the world under the + heel of Israel, and worked out by the leaders of the Jewish + people--and read by the 'Prince of Exile,' Theodor Herzl, during the + first Zionist Congress, summoned by him in August, 1897, in Basle." + +It will be shown later that the so-called Butmi edition of the +"protocols" published in 1907 contains the definite statement of the man +who claims to have translated them into Russian from the French in 1901 +that the Elders of Zion mentioned in the Protocols are not to be +confounded with the Zionist movement. + +In the 1917 edition Sergius Nilus wrote: + + "In 1901 I came into possession of a manuscript, and this + comparatively small book was destined to cause a deep change in my + entire viewpoint as can only be caused in the heart of man by + Divine Power. It was comparable with the miracle of making the + blind see. 'May Divine acts show on him.' + + "This manuscript was called 'the protocols of the Zionist Men of + Wisdom,' and it was given to me by the now deceased leader of the + Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor of Stavropol, + Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin. I had already begun to work with my + pen for the glory of the Lord, and I was friendly with Sukhotin. + _He was a man of my opinion_, that is, extremely conservative, as + they are now termed. + + "Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manuscript from + a lady who always lived abroad. This lady was a noblewoman from + Tchernigov. He mentioned her by name, but I have forgotten it. He + said that she obtained it in some mysterious way, by theft, I + believe. + + "Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was given by + this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, upon her + return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently killed. He + said other things of the same mysterious character. But when I + first became acquainted with the contents of the manuscript I was + convinced that its terrible, cruel and straight-forward truth is + witness of its true origin from the 'Zionist Men of Wisdom,' and + that no other evidence of its origin would be needed." + +Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia's most famous liberals, a member of the +nobility, a former member of the Duma, writing recently of the Nilus +protocols and of Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own +opinion, says: + + "For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its + success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was a + Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It is + said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, the + notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk. + + "The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in that + edition Nilus said, 'Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.' + + "The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin means + nothing to the present generation. But there was a time when his + name attracted attention. + + "Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for refusing to + cart manure from his stables because the animals there were + infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the peasants. + Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified his act by + writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, that he had + arrested the peasants not because they refused to cart his manure + but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo official. The + reactionary Chernsk nobility made Sukhotin marshal of nobility. So + it was this man who furnished the protocols of the secret meetings + of the representatives of Zion! But how did Sukhotin get the + protocols? An unknown friend had brought them to him. They were + given to him by an unknown lady who had received them from an + unknown but energetic participant in the Basle Congress. Is this + credible? Well, then, there is another version of the origin of the + protocols--but that is for the German readers. The Russian + government sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the + Congress himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was + carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local masonic + organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, and gave the + protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who worked all night and + copied the protocols. + + "In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to have + been brought to Russia in French. According to the German version, + the protocols were copied, consequently they were in German, but + the most important thing is that the protocols are not protocols at + all, but a monograph--which could be called 'the dream of a member + of the Black Hundreds.'" + +A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor of the "protocols" +as follows: + + "In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have been + studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor Troitzky, + Professor Kokovtsev, Kartashov, Bulgakov, Berdyayev--men of profound + intellect and a living conscience. In them the counterfeit ravings + of the ignorant monk (Nilus) evoked but a smile of contempt. The + low level of the circles in which men like Nilus moved and worked + is only too well known. It was the world of police denunciations, + divorce perjuries, monastic servility and feigned, blasphemous + piety. In order to attract attention, Nilus's 'Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion' had to emigrate from Russia. And the further away + they went, the better they fared." + + + + +CHAPTER TWO + +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of "Protocols" Was German Fiction of "Sir John Retcliffe"--Who +Was "Retcliffe"?--His Infamous Record--His Bloodcurdling Story--The Meeting +in the Cemetery--An Avowed Myth--Meeting Every Hundred Years Attended by +"Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel"--The "Son of the +Accursed" Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes. + + +The query now naturally arises, what is the origin of these much +heralded "Protocols" which were published in Russia by Sergius Nilus in +1905, and a copy of which, it is triumphantly announced, is now in the +British Museum? + +The anti-Jewish propagandists everywhere content themselves with the +"history" of the origin of the "Protocols" as given by the "Russian +mystic" Sergius Nilus. But fortunately "murder will out," and the +criminals who perpetrated the stupendous forgery for the purpose of +slandering the Jews have left behind clues that enable one to visualize +the very process that they pursued in the perpetration of their crime. + +In 1866-1870 there appeared in Berlin a series of novels entitled +"Biarritz--Rome" purporting to have been written by "Sir John Retcliffe," +the pseudonym of Herman Goedsche, a German novelist with an unsavory +past. To conceal his identity and to convey the impression that the +antisemitism with which his writings abounded emanated from English +sources, he selected "Sir John Retcliffe" as his pen-name. + +According to _Meyer's Konversations Lexikon_ (Sixth edition, 1904, +Volume VIII, page 77), Herman Goedsche was born in February, 1815, in +Trachenberg, Silesia, and died on November 8, 1878, at Warmbrunn. He was +employed in the postal service, but as he was implicated in the Waldeck +forgery case, he left the service in 1849, and devoted himself to +literary work. Under the name of "Armin" he published a number of works +of fiction, but he was best known under the name of "Sir John +Retcliffe," having published a series of sensational novels describing +the Crimean war, "Sebastopol," "Rena-Sahib," "Villafranca," "Puebla," +"Biarritz," in 1866. A new edition of these works appeared in Berlin in +1903-4. + +_Brockhaus' Konversations Lexikon_ (supplement volume XVII, 1904) refers +to Goedsche, the novelist, known under the name of "Sir John Retcliffe" +(formerly "Armin"), as having played an infamous role in the Waldeck +forgery case. He was compelled to leave the postal service, and later +became a member of the staff of the _Preussische Kreutz Zeitung_. + +The chapter of the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which on even a cursory +reading will be found to contain the very essence of the Nilus Protocols +was published as a separate booklet in a Russian translation in 1872, +avowedly as a work of fiction. I have found a copy of this little volume +in the Russian Department of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. + +An examination of this chapter, entitled "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague +and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel," will +disclose the fact that every substantive statement contained in the +Protocols and elaborated in them is to be found in the +Goedsche-Retcliffe novelette. + +We are thus supplied with an early draft of the so-called Protocols, +which have now been given worldwide publicity by anti-Jewish +propagandists, and which were first introduced to the world in the form +of a clumsy piece of blood-curdling fiction of the dime-novel variety. + +In substantiation of this statement I now present a translation of this +chapter of the Russian version of this novel found in the Library of +Congress in Washington, published in St. Petersburg nearly fifty years +ago. + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF THE FANTASTIC STORY PUBLISHED +IN RUSSIA IN 1872, CONTAINING THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE PROTOCOLS IN THE +FORM OF FICTION.] + +[Transliteration: +EVREJSKOE KLADBISHHE V PRAGE + +i + +SOVET PREDSTAVITELEJ + +DVENADCATI KOLEN IZRAILEVYH. + + * * * * * + +S.-PETERBURG. +TIPOGRAFIJA TOVARISHHESTVA OBSHHESTVENNAJA POL'ZA, + +po mojke, u kruglago rynka, N 5. + +1872. +] + +_Translation of Title Page_ + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + And + THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES + Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel + + ST. PETERSBURG +Printed by the Association "Obschestvenaya Polza" + On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5 + 1872 + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF THE FOREWORD TO THE STORY PUBLISHED IN 1872, +SHOWING THAT THE AUTHOR REGARDED IT AS A "LEGENDARY STORY," COLORED BY +THE AUTHOR'S "FANTASTIC IMAGINATION."] + +[Transliteration: +PREDISLOVIE. + +Opisanie evrejskago kladbishha v Prage i legendarnyj +razskaz o sobranii predstavitelej dvenadcati +izrail'skih kolen zaimstvovany iz istoriko-politicheskago +romana Sera Dzhona Redkliffa Do Sedana, +pomeshhennago v zhurnale, izdavaemom Nikolaem +Stepanovichem L'vovym. + +Soderzhanie legendy ne est' vymysel odnogo Redkliffa; +skoree Redkliff, s svojstvennym emu fantasticheskim +voobrazheniem, sobral chasti v odno +celoe i okrasil vse poeticheskimi kraskami, porazhajushhimi, +mozhet byt', chrezmernoju jarkostiju, no +tem ne menee predstavljajushhimi interes. + + * * * * * + +Dozvoleno cenzuroju, S.-Peterburg, 17-go maja 1872 goda. +] + + + + +_(Translation)_ + +FOREWORD + + +"The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and the legendary +story of the meeting of the representatives of the twelve tribes of +Israel are borrowed from the historico-political novel by Sir John +Radcliff, 'To Sedan,' published in the magazine edited by Nicholas +Stepanovitch Lvoff. + +"The contents of the legend are not the invention of Radcliff himself; +rather Radcliff, with his characteristic fantastic imagination, +collected various parts into one whole and painted all with poetic +colors, which strike one perhaps by their excessive gaudiness, but which +are nevertheless interesting." + + * * * * * + +Passed by the Censor, St. Petersburg, May 17, 1872 + +This product of "Radcliff's fantastic imagination," the work of one +experienced in the perpetration of forgeries, will now be permitted to +tell its own story. It requires no commentary. It clearly foreshadows +the protocols, with all its accompaniment of melodrama, not even +omitting the Devil, himself. + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + + and + + The Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel + + + "The Jewish quarter of Prague represents a remarkable labyrinth of + crooked and narrow streets; it is situated in the outskirts of + Prague which witnessed numerous bloody episodes of Bohemian and + German history. The dwellers of the dirty and dilapidated houses of + this quarter are engaged in petty trading and profiteering in + their own as well as in other parts of the city. Prague is the only + city in Germany where the Jews live entirely isolated from the + nation whose name they have taken in order to avail themselves of + the privileges of the city population and to exploit it for their + own purposes. The Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the + rag-fair in Vienna and the Temple in Paris. In these places deals + amounting to thousands are transacted daily. + + "If you take a few steps along this dirty, foul market-place, you + will suddenly come upon an old, high, decayed wall which surrounds + a space of from two to three acres. Elder-trees and other wild + shrubbery wind around this wall. Old Jewish houses are crowded all + along near this wall, threatened with destruction at any moment. + The strange circle formed by this wall has an unwelcome, puzzling + appearance. + + "This is the city of the dead--the renowned Prague cemetery. + + "In this abode of rest may be seen the spirit of the nation, whose + bones found shelter here after long wandering,--here is stamped all + its history, full of sufferings, struggles and resistance. + + "It seems as though at any moment these tombs, overgrown with + shrubbery, are ready to open, these stones growing for thousands of + years are ready to raise themselves, and to let out into the world + the restless wanderer with a pack upon his shoulder, with a staff + in his hand, in order to go again to strange peoples,--to cheat and + combat them and to seek a new Canaan--his dominion! The Jewish + cemetery in Prague is the very oldest cemetery known. It was closed + by order of the government a hundred years ago. For foreigners it + is a historical landmark; for the Jews it is a sacred place. The + impression of this deserted spot is intensified by its + surroundings. Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, + overgrown with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost + entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed. + + "During the inspection, the watchman will tell the visitor the + history of the death of Rabbi Ben Manasseh, the great conqueror of + death, and Rabbi Loewe, the most learned Rabbi of the 17th century; + he will speak of Simon the Just and of the Polish princess Anna + Shmiless. He will then lead the visitor to the monument of Anna + Kohn on which can be read the mysterious figure 606, which shows + that the Jews, more than twelve hundred years ago, had buried + their dead here, in the legendary times of Lyubush and her + daughters. + + "If we are not to believe this figure, we must nevertheless agree + with the opinion of the Jews that this is the oldest settlement and + the first Jewish community in Europe. + + "Silently the Jewish guide and the curious foreigner go by one + place where under an old lilac bush a heap of stone stands out, and + when the foreigner asks, 'What is this?' the guide gives an evasive + answer---- + + "'Beth Chaim--the house of life.' Thus is the cemetery called. Yes, + indeed, this place of rest is a house of life, for from here is + given the mysterious impulse which makes the exiles masters of the + earth and tyrants of nations,--the impulse which directs the golden + calf to the chosen tribe. + + "The Jewish town has assumed a holiday aspect. The stands of the + petty retailers have disappeared; Jewish boys and girls were + strolling about in their holiday attire. The houses and windows + were adorned with green branches. On the old benches sat men, + talking seriously; in the alleys youths were chatting. From time to + time men and women in their best Sabbath clothes were going to the + synagogue, carrying prayer books in their hands; while poor + Christian women whom need had forced to work in this quarter were + running with keys and dishes in order to prepare for the feast. + + "It was the last day of the Feast of Booths, the day of Assembly, + and dusk was gathering over the narrow streets, while the Christian + part of the city was still brightly illumined by the last rays of + the setting sun. Two men (the older wore a black silk mantle, with + long earlocks, which showed that he was a Polish Jew; the other was + middle aged, in modern clothes, with diamond studs in his shirt and + a heavy golden chain on his vest) walked along the narrow streets, + without paying any attention to the crowd. + + "The younger seemed to be the guide. Having come with his companion + to the little house where the watchman of the cemetery lived, he + knocked at the closed door, through a crevice of which the bright + light of wax candles was seen, showing the watchman's holiday mood. + It was a good summer--a large number of foreigners had visited the + cemetery and were generous in their gifts. + + "In the doorway appeared the thin face of the watchman, whose + short-sighted eyes began to look fixedly into the darkness. + + "'Come out into the street, Joel, somebody wants to talk to you!' + + "'O, God of Justice,' said the watchman with amazement, as he came + out of the door,--'One of the trustees! What is your pleasure to + command me?' + + "'This Rabbi desires to make a brief prayer in the cemetery; he is + leaving to-morrow morning by train.' + + "'In the cemetery? This evening? But you know yourself, Mr. Banker, + that I am forbidden to open the gates after sunset, and to-night is + also the holy Sabbath.' + + "'First of all, there is no need for you to shout here about my + calling,' replied the banker, displeased. 'Every Jewish rag-picker + will know that banker Rosenberg was here to see you. As for the + permit to open the gates, I myself, as a trustee, authorize you to + do it. I will wait here until he has completed his prayer. The + company in your house must not know what we are doing here. Arrange + it so that the curious crowd will not rush in there.' + + "The watchman disappeared in the house, but soon returned with a + bunch of keys and opened the gates of the cemetery. He took a + lantern along and was about to light it. + + "'Don't!' said the Rabbi in a low voice. 'I don't need any light. + Lock the gates from the inside!' + + "'But, Mr. von Rosenberg----' + + "'Lock it, I say!' + + "The watchman obeyed. + + "'Now lead me to the grave of the holy Rabbi Simeon-ben-Yehudah!' + + "'Hold on to my coat, esteemed sir,' said the watchman. 'It is dark + and you may stumble over the old graves.' + + "'I can see better at night than in the daytime, my son!' answered + the learned Polish Jew. + + "'Here is the grave!' + + "The old Rabbi reverently leaned over the tombstone. The watchman + heard him pronounce a prayer in Jewish. He used so many words of + ancient Hebrew, or some other words of a language he did not + understand, that he knew only a few separate expressions, although + he himself had been in the past a teacher at the Bohemian + community. + + "Having completed his prayer, the stranger turned to the watchman + of the cemetery: + + "'When you accepted the position from your predecessor, did he not + give you certain instructions?' + + "'Me?' + + "'Yes, you! It was so from the day the first person was buried in + this place.' + + "'Well, and what if he did give such instructions,--how does that + concern you? This the first time I am asked about this matter since + I am employed here.' + + "'Because this happens once in a hundred years, and human life + rarely lasts as long as that.' + + "'I see that you know about it, Rabbi,' said the frightened + watchman. 'But I can obey you only if you mention the word which + was given to me by my predecessor, because I took a sacred oath on + the Bible.' + + "The Polish Jew bent down and slowly pronounced a word of seven + syllables. + + "The watchman bowed respectfully. + + "'You are the Rabbi!' he said. 'All will be done as you command!' + + "'You will send away the friends who are feasting in your house + before the clock strikes eleven. At the first stroke you will open + the gates of the cemetery, and at the last stroke you will get into + your house, lock the doors and windows, lie down in your bed and + turn into a corpse together with the members of your + household,--into a corpse that sees and hears nothing.' + + "'I will neither look nor listen.' + + "'The angel of death will leave your soul in your body and will + force you to wander about among the graves to the end of time if + you do not carry out my orders correctly. Now go, and remember that + by virtue of your position you are the servant of the great + Jerusalem synagogue. I need not tell you that you should not say + anything to that vain, worldly man who brought me here.' + + "Both returned to the gates, near which the banker was still on + guard. + + "'Well,' he said, 'your desire is fulfilled, Rabbi, and you may + inform my friend in Warsaw that Rosenberg and Son are always ready + to do a favor to a guest recommended by such a personage. Now let + us go home; my wife is waiting for us.' + + "'Let us go, my son,' replied the Rabbi. 'But relieve me of + worldly pleasures. I shall spend the night in prayer!' + + "The banker shrugged his shoulders and gave the watchman a gold + coin. + + "'Joel,' he said in a low voice, 'the other trustees of the + community must not know about this violation of the rule.' + + "The watchman nodded, and the companion again disappeared in the + dark streets, which had already become deserted, while in the + houses people talked merrily and the sounds of holiday festivities + were heard. + + "How poor, dirty and dark these little houses looked from outside! + But it was quite different within! In the rear rooms of many of + these houses the bright light of numerous wax candles was reflected + in the splendid high mirrors, in expensive dishes and precious + rugs. Girls and women, who in the morning perhaps walked with trays + in their hands, now were seated at the tables in heavy silk gowns + with golden chains and bracelets; their jewels and diamonds were + glittering. + + * * * * * + + "The clock in the town-hall tower struck ten. In the chapel, near + the statue of St. Nepomucenus, upon a stone bench, sat a + large-sized man, with the pale serious face of Germanic type. Every + physiognomist, looking at him, would have said that this man had + devoted his youth to serious scientific work and that he had spent + many sleepless nights over books. + + "The clock had just struck ten when upon the bridge appeared a man + in a light summer coat, of about the same age as the young + scientist. His face was pale, of waxen color, without the slightest + natural red in his cheeks; his particularly prominent nose + indicated his Jewish extraction; his forehead was high and large, + his head was strongly developed. He walked straight over to the man + who was waiting and who quickly arose. + + "'Good evening. I see you have received my letter. Have you it with + you?' + + "'Yes, I know it by heart, I have read it so many times. "My + friend," it is written there, "I have promised to give you the key + to the Caballah, if I ever find the opportunity to do so. Although + I am not always in the habit of fulfilling my vows, I am ready to + fulfil this one, if you will wait for me in the evening of October + 8, in Prague, on the old Moldau bridge, under the statue of + Nepomucenus." Then follows your name.' + + "'Yes, that is correct. Have you not yet given up your desire?' + + "'Less than ever before! You would render science an invaluable + service.' + + "'Listen, doctor, bend down a little over the rail; that of which + we speak must not be heard even by the waves of the Moldau, if we + wish to remain alive.' + + "The young scientist looked in astonishment at his comrade, but did + as he desired. + + "'Three years ago, in Rome, when I promised to acquaint you with + the mysteries of the Caballah, I did it more for the sake of + boasting of a power and authority which, in reality, I did not + possess. Although I had studied for some time the traditions of my + nation, rather out of curiosity than because of the love of + knowledge, I knew very well that I could hardly penetrate the + corridor of those mysteries which I am still regarding as the + sophistry and roguishness of exalted minds, invented for the + purpose of holding fools in fear and subordination. But several + accidental discoveries, made by me since then, have changed my + views and have aroused in me a sense of curiosity. + + "'You know, notwithstanding our brief acquaintance, that I am not + the type of man who would abandon a clue or a conceived plan. What + has caused me to make you my companion in satisfying my + curiosity--that does not concern you. It is enough that now we have + an opportunity to satisfy our mutual desire, and all depends on + whether you will agree to accept the conditions upon which I can + make you a partner in my investigation.' + + "'If these are not against honor and conscience.' + + "'In this respect you have nothing to risk, you are rather risking + something else--your life. Do you feel that you are capable of + facing a serious danger?' + + "'For the sake of science, yes!' + + "'Very well, in that case I must tell you that I will lead you to a + place which we will not leave alive, if our presence is discovered. + The slightest suspicion that we were uninvited witnesses of the + secret will bring upon us persecution which will kill us sooner or + later.' + + "'You are whetting my curiosity, signor!' + + "'That is all I wanted to tell you. The other thing--you know that + I am a Jew by birth. Although the Jews have driven me from their + midst and cursed me according to their custom and traditions + because I adopted Christianity,--still I have my own reasons for + stipulating a condition--your word of honor that you will be silent + about all you will see and hear, until I authorize you to speak.' + + "'I swear by my honor.' + + "'Very well. You will recall in your investigations of the Caballah + that in the mysterious books mention is made of a meeting of the + heads or chosen ones of the nation,--a meeting which takes place + from time to time?' + + "'Yes, in the Yezire it is said very definitely, and if I + understood correctly, such meetings take place every hundred + years.' + + "'Yes. The last meeting took place in 1760 and you recall that + shortly afterward the movement of Judaism started. It is now 1787 + years since the destruction of Jerusalem and this year is + designated for a meeting of the Cabalistic Sanhedrin. This is the + day of the meeting; the place is this city. I want to be present at + this meeting in spite of the danger and am ready to take you along + with me.' + + "'But will it not be dishonest to listen, will it not be an + unlawful interference with other people's secrets?' + + "'Per Bacco! as we Italians say; with such hesitations you must + abandon once for all the idea of fulfilling your desire. Or do you + think that the people who guard the secret of the Caballah will + bring it to you on a tray? As far as I am concerned, I shall + discover the secret, at any cost!' + + "After reflecting a few minutes, the scientist came to a decision. + + "'I shall go with you, come what may!' + + "'Very well. Now we have agreed. Let us go,--there is no time to + lose.'" + + * * * * * + + "The tower clock of the town-hall struck eleven. At the first + stroke a key clicked in the lock of the cemetery gates. Then + followed profound silence which indicated that the cemetery was + open. The lights in the Jewish houses were gradually dying out, and + at the same time the sounds of the merry feasting also subsided. + + "Mysterious silence reigned in that terrible place. + + "The gates creaked softly; the rustling of long coats was heard, + touching the stones and shrubbery; finally a vague white figure + appeared and slipped by like a shadow along the pathways. + + "This figure knelt before one of the tombstones; three times it + touched the stone with its forehead and softly whispered a prayer. + + "Along the path leading from the gates came an old man, bent, + limping, sighing and coughing. He came over to the ancient + tombstone, and lowered himself on his knees near the white figure + that had entered before him, and he, too, whispered a prayer. + + "Then heavy footsteps were heard, and a tall, impressive figure + appeared on the road, clad in a white mantle, and he, too, fell + down on his knees, as though unwillingly, in front of the + tombstone. + + "Thirteen times this was repeated. Thirteen old men came over to + the tombstone. The doctor counted them, but he could not understand + whether they were alive or dead. A shiver crept down his back, his + heart began to beat faster from fright. He involuntarily recalled + the terrible legend of the Day of Atonement in the tenth month, + Tishri, in the synagogue of Posen when, during the prayer of Kol + Nidrei, the congregation kept growing larger and larger; unknown + people, pushing one another, wrapped in prayer shawls, came in, one + hundred after another, until the terrified Rabbi lifted his hand as + if to curse and exclaimed: 'He who has flesh in his cheeks, let him + throw off the prayer shawl!' Hundreds remained covered, and when + the prayer shawls were torn away from them, all saw the skulls of + the dead who had come out of the graves to celebrate the Day of + Atonement with the rest of the congregation. + + "As there, it seemed to him that the prayer shawls had fallen off + the heads of the praying old men, and a row of dead skulls + appeared. At that moment the clock struck twelve. A sharp metallic + sound rang out on the grave, after which a blue flame appeared and + illumined the thirteen kneeling figures. + + "'I greet you, Roshe beth Aboth (heads) of the twelve tribes of + Israel,' announced a dull voice. + + "'We greet you, son of the accursed.' + + "'A hundred years have already passed. Where have the Nesiyim + (princes of the tribes) come from?' + + "'From the lands where the nation of Adonai has been scattered by + the orders of our forefathers.' + + "'Are you ready to fulfil the promise during the coming century?' + + "'We are ready!' + + "'Then say, whose representatives are you, and where do you come + from? Tribe of Judah?' + + "'From Amsterdam,' replied a strong, loud voice. + + "'Tribe of Benjamin?' + + "'Toledo!' came the dull answer. + + "'Tribe of Levi?' + + "'Worms!' + + "'Tribe of Manasseh?' + + "'Budapest!' + + "'Tribe of Gad?' + + "'Cracow!' + + "'Tribe of Simeon?' + + "'Rome!' + + "'Tribe of Zebulun?' + + "'Paris!' + + "'Tribe of Dan?' + + "'Constantinople!' + + "'Tribe of Asher?' + + "'London!' + + "'Tribe of Issachar?' + + "The answer came in a faint voice and could not be heard + distinctly. + + "'Tribe of Naphtali?' + + "'Prague!' + + "'And I am the representative of the unfortunate and exiles,' said + the man who asked the questions in a dull voice. 'I am myself + wandering about all over the world in order that I may unite you + for the sake of the cause of redemption which has been promised to + the seed of Abraham and which was taken from them by the sons of + him who was crucified! Who is here of the house of Aaron, let him + rise, scrutinize the heads of the tribes and gather the council.' + + "The man who was the first to arrive rose and then seated himself + upon the tombstone. One by one the others came over to him and + whispered in his ear a seven-syllabled word, and each time he + nodded in approval. After that all returned to their former + places. 'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'our fathers formed a union + which compels all those chosen as representatives of the tribes to + gather every hundred years at the grave of the great teacher of + Caballah whose doctrines give the chosen ones power on earth and + supremacy over all the descendants of Ishmael. Eighteen hundred + years the struggle has been conducted by the nation of Israel for + supremacy which was promised to Abraham and which was taken away + from us by the Cross. Trampled under foot by our enemies, under the + terror of death and all kinds of humiliation and violence, the + nation of Israel, nevertheless, has not abandoned this struggle, + and as they are scattered all over the earth, the whole earth must + belong to them! Our learned men are conducting this struggle for + hundreds of years; the nation is gradually rising from its fall; + its power is growing and spreading. To us belongs the earthly god, + which was made for us with such sorrow by Aaron in the desert ... + the Golden Calf which the backsliders are worshipping!' + + "'We hear!' they whispered on all sides. + + "'When all the gold on earth will be ours, the power will go over + to us. Then will be fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. Gold is + the ruler of the earth. Gold is power, reward, pleasure ... all + that human beings fear and desire. This is the mystery of the + Caballa ... the teachings concerning the spirit which rules the + world, and about the future! Eighteen centuries we have belonged to + our enemies. The future belongs to us. For the fifth time in the + course of the thousand-year-old struggle to which we have + consecrated ourselves, those who know of the existence of the + secret union have gathered here to take counsel as to the means + which are afforded us by the sins of our enemies, and each time, + for five hundreds years, a new Sanhedrim, ordered the fiercest + struggle. But, excepting Russia, not a single century has been + crowned with such success as this one. Therefore we may think that + the time for which we are striving is near, and we may say, "The + Future is ours!"' + + "'Yes, if persecutions against the Jews will not take place in the + meantime!' pointed out one of the men with a bitter smile. + + "'The dark days of such a danger are passed. The success of + so-called civilization among the Christian nations may serve as the + best protection for our endeavors. Before listening to the + individual opinions, let us examine the material means, the pure + capital possessed by the nation of Israel....' + + "'But against the three and a half million Jews with their money + there are 265 million enemies in Europe, or rather 500 million + fists,' remarked one of these present. + + "'The head will protect us against the fists, as in the past. Labor + is the slave of speculation, and violence is the slave of wisdom. + Who will deny that cunning is the distinctive trait of our nation? + + "'Our nation is ostentatious and greedy, arrogant and + pleasure-loving. + + "'Where there is light there is also shadow. It is not in vain that + Adonai our God gave his chosen people the tenacity of a snake, the + cunning of a fox, the look of a falcon, the memory of a dog, the + diligence of an ant, and the sociability of a beaver. We were in + captivity on the rivers of Babylon, and have become powerful! Our + temple was destroyed, but we have built a thousand new temples! For + eighteen hundreds years we were slaves; now we have grown head and + shoulders above all other nations.' + + "All the twelve pronounced the concluding words-- + + "'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'the time has come when, in + accordance with the laws of the founder of our union, we must + determine ways and means by which the Jews shall attain their goal + as soon as possible; our experience of a hundred years will help us + in this. We who know must direct and guide the masses which are + blind. We, the builders, will combine the dead stones into a pillar + which must reach the sky.' + + "'The Tower of Babel was destroyed by the hand of Him whose name I + dare not pronounce,' said the sceptic. + + "'Our structure rests upon the foundation of the promise made to + Abraham. It is your turn to speak, representative of the tribe of + Reuben! By what means will the Jewish nation achieve power and + supremacy over all other nations on earth?' + + "A shrill, unpleasant voice then spoke: + + "'All the princes and the lands of Europe are at present in debt. + The stock exchange regulates these debts. But such things are done + only by movable capital; therefore all the movable capital must go + over to the hands of the Jews. The foundation for this is already + laid, judging from what we have heard here. If we will be supreme + in the stock exchange, we will attain the same supremacy in the + governments. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate loans in order + to get them into our hands all the more. Wherever possible, we must + take in exchange for capital, mortgages on railroads, taxes, mines, + regalia and domains. Furthermore, the stock exchange is a means for + the transfer of the belongings of the small people to the hands of + the capitalists, by drawing them into stock gambling. Transactions + in securities are a splendid invention of our nation. Although the + stock exchange members cheat one another sometimes, it is the + outsider who always pays in the end.' + + "The voice which resounded on the Paris Bourse became silent. + + "'Do the _zekenim_ agree with the opinion of our brother?' asked + the Levite. + + "A whisper of approbation was the answer to this question. + + "'Representative of the tribe of Simeon, it is your turn now!' + + "A serious, dull voice resounded after this order. Each word was + pronounced slowly and thoughtfully: + + "'Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore, the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. It will not be hard to accomplish this, if + we acquire movable capital. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate + loans on land. Under the fear of scandal we will destroy land + wealth and minimize its importance. Ownership of land should be + mobilized, if lands are sold as other commodities. The more we help + in the breaking up of estates, the more easily will they fall into + our hands. Under the pretext of relieving the poor classes, it is + necessary to levy all taxes of states and communities on the land + owners. When the land is in our hands, the labor of the Christian + workers and farmers will give us a tenfold income.' + + "He who did not belong to any tribe laughed sneeringly. + + "'This advice is good, but not new. Ask in Paris and in Vienna, who + owns the houses there?' + + "A whisper of approbation was heard again. + + "'Tribe of Judah, your turn!' + + "The voice that resounded was marked with conviction and reminded + one of the sound of the Thaller. + + "'Industry, the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish + nation, must be paralyzed even as agriculture. The manufacturer + should be no better than an ordinary worker. The means to + accomplish this may be the unlimited freedom of trade. The + manufacturer will take the place of the artisan as he does not have + to work, only to speculate. The children of Israel can adapt + themselves to all branches of work. Their capital and dexterity + will be the substitute for right. Transforming the artisans into + our factory workers, we will be in a position to direct the masses + for our political purposes. Whoever resists this system will be + destroyed by competition. The senseless and ungrateful masses will + not support the artisans in this struggle, if commodities are + reduced in price to a certain extent. + + "A noisy approbation of the new Sanhedrin showed that the soundness + of this advice had long been appreciated and even applied in + practice. + + "'Now it is my turn,' said the representative of Levi--'I speak in + the name of the tribe of Aaron. The natural enemy of the Jews is + the Christian church. Therefore we must try to humiliate it, we + must instill into it free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts. + Therefore we will, first of all, start a war on the clergy, we will + try to arouse suspicion against it and ridicule it. The main pillar + of the church is the school. Therefore we must gain influence over + the young. Under the guise of progress and the equal rights of all + religions, we will destroy the study of religion in Christian + schools. Then the Jews may become teachers in all schools; then + religion will be taught at home. And as there is little time left + for that, the spirit of religion will gradually decline, and + eventually it will be destroyed altogether. Agitation for the + appropriation of property belonging to the churches and schools, + the transfer of church property to the state, or (what is the same) + into the hands of the Jews, will be our reward!' + + "Again approbation followed the words of the man who had spoken. + Nobody contradicted him and he announced: + + "'Representative of the tribe of Isaachar, it is your turn!' + + "Now an old, trembling voice spoke: + + "'Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. The + coarse military art is not for the sons of Israel. Not everyone can + be a Gideon! The army is for the defense of the throne and the + school of narrow patriotism. Not the sword, but reason and money + must rule. Therefore at every opportune instance, it is necessary + to help the downfall of the military class, to arouse suspicion in + the masses against it, and to incite animosity against one another. + It is enough for the soldiers to do police duty and to protect the + wealthy from those who have nothing.' + + "'The Lion of Judah has spoken,' said the stranger angrily. 'David + conquered Goliath. The nations will soon wear long coats instead of + military armour. A slap on the bourse will be equivalent to a lost + battle.' + + "It looked as though a storm was rising against this arrogant + sarcasm, but one word from the eldest restored them all to calm. + + "'This is the son of Baal! He may say whatever he pleases. But he + will do whatever is decided by the council of the tribes.' + + "'The tribe of Zebulun may speak!' + + "A dull voice, like a storm in the distance, said as follows: + + "'Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to + what is old. But our interest demands that we participate, or, + rather, direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that + ours is a time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the + amelioration of the material condition of the needy classes. But + for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals. + Capital is in the hands of the Jews. Therefore they must outwardly + take part in the movement and try to divert it from social and + political reforms. The masses themselves are blind and foolish, and + permit the shouters to rule over them. Who shouts more loudly and + more shrewdly than the Jews? Therefore our nation has been the + first on the platform, in the press, and in all Christian + communities! The more communities and meetings, the more + dissatisfaction and idleness. From this it follows inevitably that + the people grow poorer, that they become subjected to those who + have money, leading to the enrichment of the latter. Besides, every + movement makes us richer, for the smaller people are ruined and are + contracting debts. The unstability of the foundation increases our + power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + dissatisfaction, every revolution, increases our capital and brings + us nearer to our goal.' + + "This terrible speech was followed by prolonged silence. Every + member of this secret Sanhedrim seemed to be thinking of its + terrible meaning. The son of Baal again laughed hoarsely. + + "'Are you afraid of blood? It isn't yours.' + + "Then one member of the gathering expressed his approval, and all + others followed his example. + + "'Son of the tribe of Dan, your turn!' + + "The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order: + + "'Every business in which there is speculation and profit must be + in our hands. That is our natural right. First of all, we must get + control of the traffic in liquor, butter, wool, and bread. Then we + shall have in our hands agriculture, farming. We can prepare bread + everywhere, and if dissatisfaction and want should arise, we can + easily throw the blame on the government. Petty wares, which give a + great deal of trouble and yield very little profit, we can leave in + the hands of the Christians. Let them work hard and suffer as the + chosen people suffered for several centuries.' + + "This speech scarcely needed approval. The Levite called on the + next one. + + "'Tribe of Naphtali?' + + "The following words rang out shrilly and with assurance: + + "'All governmental positions should be open to us. Once this + principle is established, the cunning and flattery of the Jewish + employees will help them to penetrate even there, and they will + have real influence. I am speaking only of the posts which bring + honor, power, and pre-eminence. Positions which require work and + knowledge may remain for the Christians. Therefore the Jews may + neglect positions of secondary importance. Justice is very + important for us, the law is a great step forward. This occupation + is suited to the cunning and skill of our people and gives us + influence and power against our natural enemies. Why can't a Jew be + Minister of Education as he has already been more than once + Minister of Finance?' + + "'Remember the scaffold of Haman, the fate of Shushan and Leopold!' + said a warning voice. + + "'Why does the raven croak about the past which is so distant and + almost forgotten? More than one of our people has been a Minister + in France and respected by the King himself.' + + "Approval was expressed in a tone of satisfied pride; then the + orator continued: + + "'Our people must be among the legislators of the governments. The + laws of the goyim against the children of Israel must be abolished. + We will maintain the laws of our Fathers. We need no longer any + laws that would protect us. No. We must concern ourselves about + laws that will give us privileges. A mild law respecting + bankruptcy, promulgated in the interests of humanity, would be a + golden mountain in our hands. First of all we must see to it that + the law regarding usury is abolished in all countries under the + pretext that money would thereby become cheaper. Money is just such + a commodity as others, and the law should give us the right to + regulate its price according to our desire.' + + "'Now is the turn for the tribe of Benjamin.' + + "'What can I add to the counsel of such wise men? The Jew should + also make use of honors, and should be at the head of all + organizations that may give him honor without risks, and he should + engage in science and the arts which are more adapted to the + character of our people and which we can master more easily. We can + become good actors and philosophers, because there is room for + speculation in these domains. In the arts our people will look + after the reception and will burn incense to ourselves. In science + we will take up medicine and philosophy. These afford opportunities + for theories and speculation. A physician penetrates the secrets of + families and holds their lives in his hands.' + + "'Tribe of Asher, your turn!' + + "'We must demand free marriage between Jews and Christians. Israel + will only be the gainer, even though there be an admixture of + impure blood to a certain degree. Our sons and daughters will marry + into renowned and powerful Christian families. We give money and + thus have influence. The Christian relationship cannot have a bad + influence on us, while we can exert a strong influence over them. + That is one thing. Another thing is that we respect the Jewish + woman and we enjoy the forbidden pleasure with the women of our + enemies. We have money, and for money we can get everything. A Jew + must never make a daughter of his own race his mistress. If he + should desire to sin against the Seventh Commandment he should + content himself with Christian girls.' + + "'What is the use of employing the beautiful girls of the goyim in + our stores if not for this?' angrily interposed the representative + of the evil spirit. 'Whoever will not want to satisfy our desire + will get no work, consequently no bread. Go to the large cities and + you will see that they are not waiting for your wise men's orders. + Substitute a contract for sacrament in the marriage of Christians + and their wives and daughters will come to you still more readily.' + + "The terrible cynicism of these words, touching such a delicate + subject, must have produced a profound impression, especially since + the views of the ancient doctrines were so strict on the topic of + moral purity. + + "'What does the law say?' asked one of the twelve. + + "'For adultery with a woman of our own people--death; for seducing a + girl--a fine, if she was not betrothed; if she was betrothed--death. + But the law is not so rigorous with regard to one who lives with a + slave--her body belongs to her master.' + + "'Are the goyim better than our slaves?' + + "This explanation was followed by a whisper of approval. + + "'The tribe of Manasseh may speak now!' + + "The last of the orators lifted his hand and during his speech he + raised and lowered it, as if desiring thus to make a stronger + impression by his words. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, but + he spoke skilfully and with assurance. + + "'If gold is the first power in the world, the press is the second. + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press is + in our hands. Our people must direct the daily publications. We are + cunning, shrewd, and we possess money which we know how to utilize + for our purposes. We need great political newspapers which mold + public opinion--criticism, the literature of the streets and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect, and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us. Then, even though each individual + may be against us, the masses, in their stupidity, will always be + for us. With the press in our hands, we can turn wrong into right, + dishonesty into honesty. We can shake all foundations, and separate + families. We can destroy faith in all that our enemies, until now, + have believed. We can ruin credits and arouse passions. We can + declare war; we can award fame or disgrace. We can uplift or ruin + talent. + + "'When Israel shall have gold and the press in his hands, we will + be able to ask: "On what day will it please you to _put on Atarah_ + (crown) which belongs to us by right, to erect Shisse (?) and + extend the Shebet (sceptre) over the nations of the earth?"' + + "A noisy greeting followed these words and the agitated men who + listened hardly understood for some time what was being said at the + meeting. At last the voice of the Levite called upon all to be + silent. + + "'The Roshe-Bate-Aboth of the twelve tribes have uttered words of + wisdom. These words will be as pillars for the times to come, if + the son of him "who has not rest" will write these words upon his + memory and spread the seeds among the nation of Israel in order + that it may grow to be a mighty tree. They will be the sword with + which Israel will strike down his enemies. Our posterity must share + among themselves happiness, wealth and power as it shared + misfortune and dangers. They must help one another. Wherever one of + them places his foot, he must drag another--his brother--along with + him. If one of them is unfortunate, others must help him, if he but + lives according to the law of our nation. + + "'He who was in prison for ten years, may become a rich man to whom + princes will bow, if only our people will not forsake him. Where + everybody is against us, all will be for us. After forty years of + wandering in the desert, the hand of Jehovah brought us to power in + the land of Canaan; the same hand will lead us after forty-five + times forty years from our misfortune and miseries to rule over + lands which are forty-five times vaster than Canaan. If Israel + shall obey the decision here adopted by the Sanhedrin of the + Caballah, our grandchildren, coming a hundred years hence to the + grave of the founder of our union, will announce to him that they + have indeed become the princes of the world and that the promise + made to the nation of Israel has been fulfilled. Other nations will + become his slaves! Renew our oath, sons of the golden calf, and go + to all lands of the world.' + + "The blue flame flared up brightly upon the grave of the Rabbi; + each of the thirteen threw upon the tomb a stone which each carried + under his cloak. + + "It seemed to the doctor that on the top of the tombstone, in the + bluish flame, there appeared a monstrous golden figure of an + animal. + + "Then he heard the same metallic sound that he had heard when the + light first appeared. Then impenetrable darkness covered the + cemetery. + + "The white figures again slipped by among the tombstones. The gates + creaked softly. + + "The clock in the tower struck two past midnight. The last of the + mysterious visitors knocked at the window and a hoarse voice said + (as though the speaker knew that the watchman was not asleep): + + "'Close the house of life, watchman of those who are awaiting the + resurrection, and may your lips be sealed with the seal of Solomon + for a hundred years.' + + "The scholar still lay motionless; he was afraid to stir; all he + had heard had made upon him such a dreadful impression. + + "A noise near him indicated that his companion was rising. + + "'To concentrate in their hands all the capital of the nations of + all lands; to secure possession of all the land, railroads, mines, + houses; to be at the head of all organizations, to occupy the + highest governmental posts, to paralyze commerce and industry + everywhere, to seize the press, to direct legislation, public + opinion and national movements--and all for the purpose of + subjugating all nations on earth to their power! No! I shall + struggle against the golden calf and shall smash it to pieces as + Moses smashed it in the desert.' + + "'What we heard is a threat against all society. Here is my hand, I + will be your comrade in this struggle against the power of gold.' + + "The Italian shook his head, but accepted the extended hand. 'No,' + he said, 'I want to act alone. There is a force which, if properly + directed, is not weaker than gold. That force is poverty and her + companion, labor. I shall call them out and lead them into battle. + Proud Israel! Beware! I shall put against you the _Artel_ (union) + and Labor.' + + "'And I,' said the scholar, with animation, 'all that is lofty and + noble,--science, idealism, faith--I shall lead these against this + materialism.' + + "His comrade laughed: + + "'Your ideals will crumble as clay striking against metal. Only the + forces of poverty and hunger can be the fighters that will defeat + the golden calf. Our ways part here; you will go one way, and I + another. My promise is fulfilled; but remember your vow--be silent + as to all that you have heard and seen here!'" + +This is the weird, fantastic "thriller" from which sprang the Protocols. +It is the first stage. According to this story not only were there +present at a secret meeting in the Prague Cemetery, the representatives +of the twelve tribes of Israel, ten of which totally disappeared nearly +twenty-five centuries ago, but also the son of "the accursed one," the +Devil, was there, making side-remarks from time to time. His assigned +function was that of spreading the decisions of the Wise Men of Zion +among the Jews in order that they conquer the world. + +Dr. Herman L. Strack, professor of theology at the University of Berlin, +one of the foremost Christian authorities on theological and religious +literature, commenting on this Goedsche-Retcliffe concoction, says that +this tale of the ghostly convocation in the Jewish cemetery at Prague, +discloses no real knowledge of Judaism, that the reference to mixed +marriages indicates gross ignorance of actual Jewish thought, and that +the Hebrew words supposed to have been employed by the spokesmen for the +various tribes appear to have been borrowed from a dictionary. He also +points to Goedsche-Retcliffe's story and the "Rabbi's Speech" about to +be mentioned as the sources of the Protocols. + + + + +CHAPTER THREE + +FICTION FORGED INTO "FACT" + +The Lie in its Second Stage--The Tale Becomes "Fact"--The "Rabbi's" +Speech--Its Authenticity Vouched for by "Retcliffe"--An Illuminating +Footnote--A Dedication to the Russian "Black Hundreds"--The Imaginary +"Speech" Bears Witness to Authenticity of "Protocols," Themselves Based +on "Speech"--Three Stages of the Lie. + + +A number of years after this Russian translation of the +Goedsche-Retcliffe story appeared, Sir John Retcliffe, alias Goedsche, +deeming it important for his purpose of adding fuel to the flame of +anti-semitism that had been lighted in Germany, undertook to convert +this work of fiction, this offspring of his imagination, into a +statement of fact. This led him to adopt the simple device of +consolidating into one continuous speech the dialogue contained in his +shilling shocker, and putting the speech into the mouth of an imaginary +Rabbi in such a way as to make it appear to be an address delivered by +him to a secret convocation of Jews. And the very man who had invented +the speeches set down in his work of fiction twenty years before, now +vouched for the authenticity of the obviously fabricated speech which he +attributed to a Rabbi who had his birth in the contorted mind of this +notorious forger. + +A translation from the Russian of the apocryphal "Rabbi's Speech," with +the introductory note as published in Russia by G. Butmi, in 1907, in a +book entitled "The Enemy of the Human Race," dedicated by the author to +the Black Hundreds, will now be laid before the reader. A comparison of +it, with the scene in the cemetery, will at once demonstrate the +identity of authorship. Below is a facsimile of the title page of this +book, a copy of which is in the Russian collection of the Library of +Congress, in Washington, D.C. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic] + +[Transliteration: +G. BUTMI. + +OBLICHITEL'NYJA RECHI. + + +VRAGI + +RODA CHELOVECHESKAGO. + +POSVJASHHAETSJA SOJUZU RUSSKAGO NARODA. + +Chetvertoe, obrabotannoe i dopolnennoe izdanie. + + +S.-PETERBURG. + +Tip. Uchilishha Gluhonemyh Gorohovaja, 18. + +1907. +] + + +THE RABBI'S SPEECH + +To the Jewish People.[*] + +[Footnote *: NOTE. (Toward the end of the last century there appeared a +book in London by Retcliffe entitled "A Review of Political and +Historical Events During the Past Ten Years." This work was translated +into French. The French periodical press, without waiting for the +complete translation of the book, reproduced certain parts of it because +they were of special interest. Thus the French newspapers and magazines +published translations from the English of an intensely interesting +speech, most edifying for Russia (from the Hebrew), delivered by one of +the Rabbis, THE AUTHENTICITY OF WHICH SPEECH IS VOUCHED FOR BY THE +ABOVE-MENTIONED AUTHOR. This inimitable gem must in the eyes of Russians +assume all the more importance since it is brought out by that "highly +civilized" humane and practical country, England, which has given +protection to the Russian Jews against the unsuccessfully invented +persecutions on the part of the Russian government and people. This +monstrous document was sent at the time in printed form, in the French +language, to the editorial office of the Odessa newspaper "Novorosisk +Telegraph" for those who might want to examine the accuracy of the +translation published in No. 4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, +1891, and reprinted in No. 21 of the Petersburg newspaper "Znamya," +dated January 22, 1904. THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SANHEDRIN +OF 1869.)] + +[Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics were omitted in the +Butmi version, but are given in the French publication "Le Pril Judo +Maonnique--I. Les Protocols des Sages de Zion," by Jouin, Paris, 1920.] + + "Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, without + fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master Caleb, + the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowledge is + imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the power over the + whole world and authority over all the descendants of Israel.... + + "It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel is + being waged with the power which had been promised to Abraham + but which had been snatched away from him by the _Cross_. + Trampled under foot, humiliated by his enemies, ceaselessly + under threats of death, of persecution, of rapine and violence + of every sort, Israel has not succumbed; and if he is + dispersed over the whole world it is because the whole world + should belong to him. + + "It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our learned + men have been fighting against the Cross with courage and + persistence which nothing can break. Our people is rising gradually + and, with each day, its forces are growing. _It is to us that this + God of the day belongs, which was erected by Aaron in the + wilderness, this golden calf, this universal deity of the epoch._ + + "When we become, at last, the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the true power will practically be transferred to + our hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. + _Gold--is the greatest power on earth; it is might, reward, the + instrument of every authority, it is all man, both fears and + desires. This is the sole mystery, the most profound science of + that spirit with the aid of which the entire world is ruled._ This + is what the future holds in store. Eighteen centuries have belonged + to our enemies; this century and the following must belong to us, + the People of Israel, and will be ours, without fail. Here, for the + tenth time during a thousand years of cruel and incessant struggle + with our enemies, have assembled at this cemetery; at the grave of + the great Master, Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, the + elect of each of the tribes of the Israelite people, in order to + discuss and agree upon, the means of making use, in the interests + of our cause, of all the tremendous mistakes and errors, which our + enemies--the Christians--have not ceased to commit. Every time the + new Sanhedrin (assembly) proclaimed and preached merciless warfare + against our enemies, but not once during the past centuries did our + forefathers succeed in concentrating in our hands such an enormous + quantity of gold [_and consequently of power_] as the nineteenth + century has given us. We are therefore able, without any senseless + illusions, to flatter ourselves with the hope of attaining our goal + before long, and we can look forward with assurance into the very + eyes of the future. + + "Persecutions and insults,--these sombre and tortuous times, which + the people of Israel bore with heroic patience,--have fortunately + come to an end, owing to the progress of civilization among the + Christians, and this progress is the best shield under which we can + hide and scheme, in order that we may cover quickly and decisively + the last leg of that distance which divides us from our supreme + aim. Let us cast a cursory glance at the economic situation of + Europe and analyze the resources which fell to the Israelites from + the beginning of the present century, owing to the concentration in + their hands of the tremendous capital which is in their possession + at the present time. It turns out that in Paris, London, Vienna, + Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, etc. [_and in all + lands--the Rothschilds_], that everywhere, the Israelites are the + masters of the financial situation, being as they are possessors of + many billions, not to mention localities of the second and third + class where all the financial funds are in their hands and not + mentioning that, without their direct influence, no financial + operation, no work of any importance, could be carried out anywhere + at any time. At present, all the emperors, kings and ruling princes + are burdened with tremendous debts incurred in order to be able to + maintain numerous standing armies [_to sustain their tottering + thrones_]. The Bourse quotes and regulates these moneys, and we are + the full masters of the Bourse in all the centres of the globe. The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other (real property) including duties + and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital + lent by us to the various States. + + "Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a + country's wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave + for us even a broader way to honors and will strengthen our + influence (over the highest officials of the country). From this + follows, that our efforts will be directed towards inducing our + brethren in Israel to make large agricultural purchases. We must, + therefore, do our utmost to break up large estates into small + parcels, in order to be able to purchase them in the easiest and + quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help the working + classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners with + taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus + gradually be transferred into our hands, the whole labor of the + Christian proletariat will become for us a new source of tremendous + profits. _Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous + enemies, we must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in + order to accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to + implant in the Christian intellectual class ideas of atheism, + scepticism, dissension and to call forth religious disputes among + the newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom._ + + "Logically, we must begin by depreciating the ministers of + this religion. Let us declare open war on them, let us provoke + suspicions on their devotion, on their private conduct, and by + ridicule and persiflage we shall be right in the consideration + attached to the state and the costume of the priest. + + "Every war, every revolution, every political and religious + upheaval brings nearer the moment when we shall attain the great + end for which we have been striving so long. Commerce and + speculation--these branches, most plentiful in their fruits,--must + never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites. + + "... and once these branches have become identified with us, + we shall, through the flattery and perspicacity of our + executives, know how to penetrate to the prime source of true + influence and power. It is understood that we are concerned + only with those pursuits that entail honors, power or + privileges, for all those that require knowledge, labor or + disagreeable conditions, these can and should be left to the + Christians. The magistrature is an institution of prime + importance for us. The legal profession develops most the + faculty of civilization and initiates one furthest in the + affairs of our natural enemies, the Christians, and it is + through it that we can subject them to our mercy. Why should + not the Jews become Ministers of Instruction when they have so + often been Ministers of Finance? The Jews must also aspire to + the rank of legislators with the object of abrogating the laws + made by the Goim, faithless sinners, against the sons of + Israel, the true believers, in their invariable attachment to + the holy laws of Abraham. + + "Moreover, on this point, our plan is nearing the most + complete realization, for progress has nearly everywhere + recognized and accorded to us the same civic rights as to + Christians, but that which it is of importance to obtain, that + which must be the object of our ceaseless efforts, is a law + less severe on bankruptcy. We shall make of it a gold mine + more rich than were ever the mines of California. + + "With this object in view the people of Israel must direct its + ambition towards those high offices of authority which have + the power to distribute honors and esteem. The most assured + way of attaining such offices is to have weight and importance + in the various industrial enterprises, financial and + commercial operations, and to be on guard for all pitfalls and + temptations which may lead to the prosecution of the sons of + Israel in the country's courts. + + "Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must + be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing + traits of its natural gifts. We must not remain passive to + anything that may aid us in gaining a place of honor in + society; philosophy, medicine, law, political economy--in other + words, all branches of science, art, literature--represent a + wide field where even our smallest successes, developing our + abilities, will be of great benefit to our cause. + + "These vocations are inseparable from speculation. Thus the + production of a musical composition, even though it be very + mediocre, will furnish to our co-religionists a plausible + reason for elevating on a pedestal and surrounding with a halo + the Jew who will be the author of it. As for the sciences, + medicine and philosophy, they must equally be a part of our + intellectual domain. + + "_To the physician are usually confided the most intimate secrets + of the family and he, therefore, holds in his hands the health and + life of our ancient enemies--the Christians._ We are obliged to + encourage matrimonial unions between Israelites and Christians, for + the people of Israel, risking no loss whatsoever from such contact, + will only gain from such unions. + + "... The introduction of a certain quantity of impure blood + into our God-chosen race will not corrupt it. Our daughters + will furnish us with these marriages alliances with Christian + families that possess influence and power. In exchange for the + money that we give, it is just that we obtain influence on + everything that surrounds us. + + "Our relationship with the Christians will not make us deviate from + the path we have always been following; on the contrary, with a + certain degree of artfulness and cunning, this relationship will + gradually make us full masters of their destinies. _It is + desirable, that the Israelites refrain from keeping concubines of + our holy faith and rather select Christian girls for the part._ The + substitution of the simple formality of a contract before some + civil power for the church ceremony is of the greatest importance + to us, because on this condition Christian women will overflow our + camp.--If gold is the first power on this earth, then the second + power is undoubtedly the press. But of what significance is the + latter without the former? Since we cannot realize all the + above-stated aims without the assistance of the press, _it is + absolutely necessary that the management of all the newspapers and + magazines of all the countries, be in our hands. The possession of + gold, of the press and of sufficient means for the satisfaction of + certain qualities of its soul, will make us masters of public + opinion and will subjugate to us the masses._ + + "Following this method on every step of our way with a persistence + which is one of our highest qualities, we will push the Christians + aside and reduce their influence to zero. We will dictate to the + world what it should believe, what it must revere or despise. It is + possible that persons will be found who will arise against us; + arming themselves, they will hurl insults and curses at us; but the + docile, ignorant masses will harken to us and will take our part. + _Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness--and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything that the gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping._ + + "May all this be understood and noted, and let every child of + Israel become imbued with its true principles. Then our might will + grow like a gigantic tree the branches of which will bear fruits, + known as riches, pleasure, power. + + "... as a compensation for that hideous condition which for + long centuries has been the unique lot of the people of + Israel. + + "When one of us makes a step forward let the next one follow him. + If his foot slips let his co-religionists hasten to support him. + If an Israelite is trapped by the court of the country in which he + resides, his brethren in faith should use all their efforts to get + him out of trouble or to help him otherwise, but on the condition + that the Israelite in question acted according to the laws which + Israel observes strictly and guards for so many centuries, and the + precepts of our religion. + + "Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious + ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have bequeathed to + us. + + "It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + "The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them easy prey for + us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid + of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our + artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through the + medium of genuine sentiment. + + "It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat + and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting in + this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, whenever we + shall need them. We will use them as weapons for upheavals and + revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move our cause + forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with a quick pace, + nearer our goal--to reign over the entire world, as it was promised + by our Father Abraham." + +[_For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, out of many that +might be selected, are taken from the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which +were afterwards elaborated and presented as facts._] + + + FIRST STAGE OF THE LIE--THE NOVELETTE + + If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the + same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary to + facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the more. + Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, mortgages + on railroads, taxes, mines, regalias (?) and domains. (Page 32.) + + Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate the + loans on land. The more we will help the breaking up of estates, + the more easily they will fall into our hands. (Page 33.) + + Industry the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish nation + must be paralyzed even as agriculture. (Page 34.) + + The natural enemy of the Jews is the Christian Church. Therefore we + must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking, + scepticism, and conflicts. Therefore we will first of all start a + war on the clergy, we will try to arouse suspicion against it and + humiliate it. + + Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force.... Not + the sword, but reason and money must rule. (Page 35.) + + Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to the + old. But our interests demand that we participate, or, rather, + direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that ours is a + time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the amelioration of the + material condition of the needy classes. But for this the + propertied classes must sacrifice their capital. Capital is in the + hands of the Jews. Therefore, they must outwardly take part in the + movement and try to divert it from social and political reforms. + The masses themselves are blind and foolish and permit the shouters + to rule over them.... The instability of the foundation increases + our power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + revolution increases our capital and brings us nearer to our goal. + (Pages 36-37.) + + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press + will be in our hands. Our people must direct the daily + publications.... We need great political newspapers which will mold + public opinion--criticism, the literature of the street and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us.... With the press in our hands we + can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into honesty. We can shake + all foundations and separate families. We can destroy faith in all + that our enemies believed until now. We can ruin credits and arouse + passions. We can declare war; we can give fame or disgrace. We can + uplift or ruin talent. (Page 43.) + +[_The following are parallel extracts from the imaginary Rabbi's speech +vouched for by the author of the novelette as fact a number of years +later._] + + + SECOND STAGE OF THE LIE--"THE RABBI'S SPEECH" + + When we become at last the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the power will practically be transferred to our + hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. Gold--is + the greatest power on earth, it is might, reward, the instrument of + every authority, it is all man, both fears and desires.... The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all the valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other real property, including duties and + taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital lent + to us by the various states. + + Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a country's + wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave for us even + a broader way to honors and will strengthen our influence over the + highest officials of the country. From this follows, that our + efforts will be directed towards inducing our brethren in Israel to + make large agricultural purchases. We must, therefore, do our + utmost to break up large estates into small parcels, in order to be + able to purchase them in the easiest and quickest way. Under the + pretext of trying to help the working classes, it is necessary to + oppress the large landowners with taxation in all its severity. + When these possessions will thus gradually be transferred in our + hands, the whole labor of the Christian proletariat will become for + us a new source of tremendous profits. + + Commerce and speculation--these branches, most plentiful in their + fruits,--must never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the + Israelites,--with this object in view the people of Israel must + direct its ambition towards those high offices of authority which + have the power to distribute honors and esteem. + + Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous enemies, we + must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in order to + accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to implant + in the Christian intellectual class ideas of Atheism, scepticism, + dissension and to call forth religious disputes among the + newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom. + + It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + fall for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey + for us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the + aid of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe + our artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through + genuine sentiment.... + + Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness--and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything which the Gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping.... + +[_The following are extracts from the new version of the "protocols" +introduced by Nilus in 1905, showing the different stages of the +forgery._] + + + THIRD STAGE OF THE LIE--"THE PROTOCOLS"[*] + + [Footnote *: These extracts are taken from "The Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion," published by the Beckwith Company, New York, + 1920.] + + All the wheels of the government mechanism are driven by the motor + which is in our hands, and that motor is--gold. (Prot. 5.) + + To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin + Gentile society, industry must be placed upon a speculative basis. + The result will be that all products extracted from industry from + the soil will not remain in their hands but will pass through + speculation into our possession. (Prot. 4.) + + The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed + away.... But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they + are independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all + costs we must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain + this is to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These + measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional + subordination. (Prot. 6.) + + See second quotation above. + + At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry + vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to + act as a counterpoise to industry.... It is necessary for industry + to deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through + speculation, transfer all the money of the world into our hands, + thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. + (Prot. 6.) + + It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from + the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and + replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material + desires. (Prot. 4.) + + We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy + and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper + us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily. + (Prot. 17.) + + It is indispensible for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars + should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an + economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of our + superiority in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will + place both sides under the control of our international agents with + their million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. + (Prot. 2.) + + We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes + who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting + that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to + whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal + principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry.... + (Prot. 3.) + + We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all + movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will + tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in + disgust. (Prot. 5.) + + We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of + Protocol 12. + + + + +CHAPTER FOUR + +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols--Only "the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia" Can Save +the World--Passages from Nilus Omitted by Translators--On Tolstoy--On the +Emancipation of Women--On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful Ally, +England." + + +In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus's book appeared, printed on +government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, containing a new and elaborated +version of the protocols. + +The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his 1905 edition, a +copy of which is in the British Museum, have deliberately omitted +numerous passages from his prologue and epilogue. These passages show +clearly the purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: "We may perhaps be +reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal character of the document +presented. But if it were possible to demonstrate its accuracy by +documents or through the testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were +possible to unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the world +conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very +'mystery of lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain +intact until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.'" Then he goes +on to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, and that +there is only one force that can save it, and that is the "God-Anointed +Tsar of Russia." The omitted portions of the Nilus book show distinctly +that it is a work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus +denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and all movements +leading toward progress. + +The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, realizing that these +passages would disclose to intelligent people the real motive of the +Nilus protocols and thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them +in the translations. + +Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious Nilus book, which +are his own utterances and do not purport to constitute a part of the +Protocols. They are translated from a photographed copy of the volume in +the British Museum: + + * * * * * + + "We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man close to us, + now deceased, a manuscript in which are described with unusual + precision and clearness the course and progress of the universal + fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world to an inevitable + catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us about four years ago + (in 1901) with the assurance that it was an accurate copy--a + translation of the original documents stolen by a woman from one of + the most powerful and sacred directors of Freemasonry after one of + the secret meetings of the 'initiates' in France, the present nest + of the Freemason's sect. This manuscript under the general title + 'Protocols of Meetings of the Wise Men of Zion' I now call to the + attention of all who wish to see or hear. These 'Protocols' at a + first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to + call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed + with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in + commonplaces. A proud, deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time + secretly growing,--and what is more frightful than all,--a religious + rage boils between the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the + overfilled vessel of violence and vengeance, already approaching + complete triumph. + + "It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript + does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols of a + meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided into + parts which are not even always logically connected: the impression + remains that this is a fragment of something much more significant, + the beginning of which has been lost. The origin of the manuscript, + as given by us above, furnishes sufficient explanation of this. + + * * * * * + + "We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal + character of the document presented. But if it were possible to + demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony of + trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil the faces of + those who are at the head of the world conspiracy and who hold its + bloody strings in their hands, then the very 'mystery of + lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain intact + until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.' In the + complexity of the present criminally-earthly process _we must not + search for direct evidence_; we are forced to content ourselves + with indirect proof and of these it seems that the attention of the + sad Christian observer is fully satisfied. + + "The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole republican era + of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of those elected + to office has to this time ever done what he promised to do, if the + demands of his electors did not coincide with the plans of the + government of Zion. + + "What has become of unfortunate France!... + + "'Let him who has ears, listen!'" + + * * * * * + + "'Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some + shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and + doctrines of devils; + + "'Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a + hot iron; + + "'Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which + God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which + believe and know the truth.' + + "Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole + world?!" + + * * * * * + + "In every age there have been many women 'drowning in sin and led + on by various lusts': the ebb and flow of this sin in woman's heart + characterized whole epochs of particular human defection but at no + time of the seeming triumph of sin have there been women + 'constantly studying'--this sign represents entirely a universal + inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic of our epoch. + + "Who is ignorant of the so-called 'woman question,' the + emancipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up so + many families and which threatens an even greater disruption in the + future?!... + + "For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons her + true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate world + revolution!" + + * * * * * + + "The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried the + roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different + name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after + having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having + declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present + day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with + its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was + never penurious. + + "As to the question why England and no other European government + was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting Sanhedrin, + the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to think that the + cause is to be found in the isolated island position of the + sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship between + the English and the Jews.[*] + + [Footnote *: As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries + to prove that the English are the descendants of one of the + scattered tribes of Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course + of contemporary science, is not ashamed to produce whatever + theories are advantageous to them. According to certain tenuous + evidences in the air it seems that a new theory is being produced + according to which the honor of birth relationship with the + God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to America and ... Japan. AVIS A + L'ANGLETERRE!...)] + + "Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of Masonic lies + (the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved for them also), + possessing countless millions, in face of the general fall of the + Christian spirit among the European peoples, in whom there was + artificially spread and supported the cult of the golden calf; + having poisoned the idea of godliness and spirituality in the heart + of the peoples by 'scientific' theories, the Sanhedrin--the priest + of the golden idol created by it, has gained control of the + spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, with the help of + its gold, with the sold consciousness of those standing at the helm + of power, and with the help of its faithful ally--England, it has + corrupted and perverted all the political foundations of Europe, + and through them the well-being and spiritual health of its + population. The French revolution, glorified by the Masonized + historical science of 'greatness' and the fall of the 'great' + Napoleon have shown to the world the significance and strength of + the Sanhedrin. But the world did not recognize the new + manifestation of Satan: at that time the words of truth of the + Evangel and the apostolic foresight had become alien to him." + + + + +CHAPTER FIVE + +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols--"Representatives of Zion" Not to be Confounded with +"Zionists"--Butmi Contradicts Nilus--Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929 +B.C.E.--The "Symbolic Snake"--Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device--Every +Jew Familiar with Plot. + + +In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and +which contains the "Rabbi's Speech" already considered, there is to be +found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred +writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred +organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of +Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the +title page. With exceeding _navet_ Butmi published the forged speech +attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the +genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated +speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone +further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of "the documents" +by Serge Nilus. + +The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as +follows: + + "PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE + OF ZION. + + "'(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion + of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)' + +Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the +Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction +the author says, in part, as follows: + + "'These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in + fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December, + 1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories + again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be + reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month, + year, where and when they were composed. + + "'The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of + Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal + plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their + authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great + certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the + documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, + which is joined mostly by Jews.... + + "'But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place + where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader, + who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic + doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.'" + +At the end of the "protocols" published in this edition by Butmi, in +1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured +and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and +in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the +representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be +confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement. The Russian +mystic Serge Nilus, in his later editions, connected the documents with +the Zionist Congress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, +Dr. Theodore Herzl. + +The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives a version of +"the political plan devised by the Wise Men of Zion." This translator, +however, states that the "political plan was conceived 929 years before +the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in +theory." + +Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator's Note: + + + [Illustration: Cyrillic] + + [Transliteration: + no esli im ne dat' krovi, oni ne spjat, a borjutsja... + + Primechanie perevodchika. + + Izlozhennye protokoly podpisany Sionskimi predstaviteljami + (ne smeshivajte s predstaviteljami sionistskago dvizhenija). Oni + vyhvacheny iz celoj knigi protokolov, vsego soderzhanija + kotoroj ne udalos' perepisat' po kratkosti vremeni, dannago + na prochtenie ih perevodchiku etih protokolov. K nim + bylo prilozheno eshhe nebol'shoe pribavlenie i plan zavoevanija + mira Evrejami mirnym putem. Eti protokoly i chertezh dobyty + iz tajnyh hranilishh Sionskoj Glavnoj Kanceljacii, + nyne nahodjashhejsja na francuzskoj territorii. + + Na upomjanutom chertezhe znachilsja ves' politicheskij plan + Siona po otnosheniju k imejushhim byt' projdennymi etapam + ] + + _Translator's Note._ + + "The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of Zion + (_do not confound them with the representative of the Zionist + movement_). They were taken out of a whole book of protocols, the + entire contents of which it was impossible to copy because of the + short time allowed the translator for reading these protocols. A + small appendix was attached to them and a plan of conquering the + world by the Jews by peaceful means. Those protocols and the Sketch + were taken from the secret depositories of the Main Office of Zion, + now located on French territory. + + "The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political plan of + Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through by this + movement and to the means of passing from one to another. The + aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth + of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and the Judean Sages in + theory; according to historical events, it was elaborated and + enlarged by their followers initiated in this plan. + + "These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, with + the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head should be composed of + the Jewish Government initiated in the plans of the Wise Men + (always masked even to their people), and the body--the Jewish + nation. + + "Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has undermined + or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, according to + their growth, in various continents, but particularly in Europe, + which he should do also in the future, following exactly the + outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road travelled by it + will close by the return of the head of the Snake to Zion,--that is, + until this snake will include in the sphere of its circle all + Europe, and through Europe the whole world, utilizing all forces + conquered by economic means in order to draw the other continents + into the sphere of its cycle.... + + "For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has made it + possible to carry out everything that was desirable in the + interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities + commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the majority + of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that the decisions + of that majority became the determining factor in questions of + national life. The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent + class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also + rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the republican is the most + desirable and convenient form of government for Zion because it + gives full sway for the activities of the armies of Zion--for + anarchists of thought and action, called socialists. + + "All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands of the + nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the ocean of + humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, every member of + which is familiarized with the plan of action worked out in the + course of centuries, from which he cannot deviate. The politics of + the goyim is the politics of accidental circumstances, engineered + by the Jews, and tends not towards perfecting the affairs of the + state, but towards struggle for the sake of greed, or more often + for the personal aggrandizement of the administrators. + + "From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory and the + guidance of the world. + + "Translation from the French, December 9, 1901." + + + + +CHAPTER SIX + +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905--The Unsuccessful Revolution--The Reaction and the +Reactionaries--Lutostansky and His Work--The "Symbolic Snake" According to +Lutostansky--Who Plagiarized?--Lutostansky on the English People--Are the +English the "Lost Tribes"?--How the Protocols Were "Doctored" by +Butmi--Conclusion. + + +As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the "literature" +produced under the auspices of the Russian Black Hundred organizations +which sought to save the Czar's throne by pogroms, I examined a large +number of publications brought out in Russia during the period when "the +Russian Mystic," Sergius Nilus, published his pretended discovery, the +"Protocols." His book, "The Great in the Small and anti-Christ," +appeared in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian +revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar's government. A new +organization was formed for the support of the Russian throne. It was +known as "the Union of the Russian People,"--"the Black Hundred,"--whose +program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia adopted a definite, +anti-Jewish policy of vengeance--a pogrom policy. The "Black Hundred" +held the Jews responsible for Russia's defeat in the war and for the +attempted revolution,--and neither the Czar nor his loyal organization of +the "Black Hundred" ever forgave Count Sergius Witte, who won for Russia +at the Portsmouth Peace Conference what she had lost on the +battlefields, for inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to +Russia. "The Black Hundreds" nicknamed Witte "the Jewish Count of +Portsmouth." They attacked him and attempted to assassinate him. They +assassinated at that time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and +Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobomania that Sergius +Nilus published his book introducing the "Protocols" in Russia. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1907 +CONTAINING ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-BRITISH ATTACKS.] + +[Transliteration: +TALMUD i EVREI + +Talmud est' religioznyj katehizis. + +Evrei i dejanija ih po ucheniju talmuda. + + +Kompiljacija iz raznyh talmudov i kommentariev chlena-sotrudnika +Imperatorskago Pravoslavnago Palestinskago Obshhestva + +Dvorjanina otstavnogo uchitelja klass. gimnazii. + +_I. Ljutostanskago._ + +KNIGA SHESTAJA. + +IZDANIE TRET'E + +ispravlennoe i znachitel'no dopolnennoe. + + +IZDATEL' + +A.N. Pershin. + +S.-PETERBURG + +Tipografija T-va "SVET", Nevskij, 136. + +1907. +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transliteration: +Ob'jasnenie sionskago simvolicheskago zmeja. + + +[Illustration: P]redstavlennyj politicheskij plan +v obraze zmija, ochen' drevnij, byl +izmyshlen iudejskimi mudrecami v +teorii, po mere zhe istoricheskih sobytij +razrabatyvaem i dopolnjaem prosveshhennymi +v etom posledovateljami. +Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' +mir dlja Ciona, s hitrost'ju simvolicheskago +zmija. Glava zmija izobrazhaet +mudrecov sionskih, a--tulovishhe narod +iudejskij. Propolzaja v gosudarstvennyja +nedra, zmij etot podtachivaet ili pozhiraet +vse ne iudejskija gosudarstvennyja +sily, po mere ih rosta na raznyh +kontinentah, no osobenno v Evrope, +chto on dolzhen delat' i v budushhem, +pri tochnom sledovanii po prednachertanijam +plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago +im puti ne somknetsja vozvratom glavy zmija na +Sion, to est' poka etot zmij ne zakljuchit v sfere +svoego kruga vsju Evropu, a cherez nee ves' mir. Pervym +delom starajutsja vnesti vezde bezverie i upadok nravstvennosti, +pol'zujas' vsemi zavoevannymi ekonomicheskim +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transliteration: + +iv + +putem silami, chtoby zavlech' v sferu svoego cikla ostal'nye +kontinenty. Tak kak vozvrat glavy zmija mog sovershit'sja +lish' po sglazhennym razvalinam gosudarstvennoj +moshhi vseh evropejskih stran, cherez padenie etoj moshhi, +ot ekonomicheskago razstrojstva i razorenija, vsjudu vnosimago +Sionom cherez nravstvennyj upadok. Rastlenie, +vnosimoe s pomoshh'ju zhidovok, vydajushhih sebja za francuzhenok +i ital'janok, kotoryja dazhe fiktivno prinimajut +i kreshhenie, potom delajutsja zhenami vazhnyh lic, +na podobie biblejskoj Esfiri, a pri nih vsegda soputstvujut +Mardohei i proizvodjat svoju politiku v +pol'zu zhidovstva. Eti-to mnimyja francuzhenki i ital'janki +javljajutsja samymi luchshimi nositel'nicami rasputstva +nravov s mesta na mesto. Eti zhenshhiny sluzhat dlja +teh, kotorye, blagodarja im, vsegda nuzhdajutsja v den'gah, +a potomu ohotno torgujut sovest'ju, chtoby dobyt' +deneg vo chto by to ni stalo. Den'gi zhe tol'ko +ssuzhajutsja takim torgovcam sovesti, chto bystro vozvrashhajutsja +v ruki, ssuzhavshija ih, potomu chto s pomoshh'ju +teh zhe zhenshhin rastrachivajutsja skoro posle +ih poluchenija. Sionskija seti razstavleny na vseh putjah +"goev" i cikl zmija podvigaetsja v XX stoletii +bystrotoj kur'erskago dvizhenija k namechennoj svoej celi. + +Polnoe izlozhenie vseh tainstvennyh protokolov +Sionskih zhidovskih mudrecov, ves' plan zavoevanija +vsego mira, budet pomeshheno v VII-m sledujushhem tome +"Talmud i evrei". K dejstvijam tajnago sionskago zmija +otnositsja i kleveta naglaja, vzvedennaja na uvazhaemago +vo vsej Rossii o. protoiereja Ioanna Kronshtadtskago. Vse +eto dejstvie zhidov, obnaglevshih v poslednee vremja +dlja podryva pravoslavnoj religii i pokolebanija very narodov, +uvazhenija svjatosti cerkvi i predannosti Carju +i otechestvu. Vse gazety, pechat' i knizhnaja torgovlja nahodjatsja +uzhe v zhidovskih rukah, chego zhe im bol'she? +Vsja G. Duma byla uzhe pod zhidovskoj komandoju. Teper' +ostaetsja tol'ko pokolebat', a potom oprokinut' hri- +] + +In my investigation I naturally examined the works of the Russian arch +anti-Semite, Ippolit Lutostansky, who first accused the Jews of the most +despicable crimes, and then, in 1882, after the occurrence of the +pogroms in the south of Russia, wrote a volume retracting all his +previous anti-Jewish accusations, and declaring anti-Semitism to be +nothing but an outgrowth of ignorance and malice. Several years later he +resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and became one of the most vicious +vilifiers of the Jewish people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair +which was staged by the Russian government for the purpose of +discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian governmental +anti-Jewish policy before the world. After the collapse of the Beilis +prosecution, which involved the absurd charge of ritual murder, +Lutostansky approached several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to +retract his new charges against the Jews, provided they would pay him a +certain amount of money for his book. The Jews declined to have anything +to do with the charlatan who had caused so much harm to the Jews of +Russia by his monstrous accusations. His works attracted special +attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and supported by +Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager Empress of Russia. + +While examining one of his books entitled, "The Talmud and the Jews," +published in 1907, in which he promised the publication of "the +Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" in his forthcoming volume, I came +upon an amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged secret +plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which I find reproduced, +word for word, with but a few phrases changed, in the epilogue of "the +Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus. Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize +Lutostansky? Or was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus? Or were they +one and the same person? At any rate, both served the purposes of the +"Black Hundreds" against the Jews, and both employed the same weapons. + +Here is a translation of Lutostansky's introduction: + + From Lutostansky's Introduction, 1907 + + EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE + + "The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very old + and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the course + of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented by their + initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the world + peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. The head + of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body--the Judaean + nation. Crawling into the bosoms of governments, this snake + undermines eats away all non-Judaean governmental forces, as they + grow on various continents, but especially in Europe, which it is + to do also in the future, carefully following the outlined plan, + until the cycle of the road travelled by it is completed by the + return of the head of the snake to Zion,--that is until this snake + will include within the sphere of its circle the whole of Europe, + and through Europe the whole world. First of all they are + endeavoring to introduce everywhere irreligion and moral decadence, + utilizing all forces they have won economically in order to drag + the other continents into the sphere of their cycle. As the return + of the head of the snake could be accomplished only over the razed + ruins of the governmental power of all European countries, through + the collapse of this power, through economic disorganization and + ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of moral decadence. + Corruption is introduced with the aid of Jewesses under the guise + of French or Italian women, who even undergo fictitious baptism for + these purposes and then become the wives of prominent men, like the + biblical Esther, and they are always accompanied by their + Mordecais, and make their politics for the good of the Jews. These + so-called French and Italian women are the best carriers of + immorality from place to place. These women are used for those who, + because of them, are always in need of money, and therefore + willingly barter their conscience to secure money at any cost. The + money is reality only loaned to such conscience-barterers, for it + quickly comes back to the hands of those loaned the money, as it + is squandered with the aid of these women soon after they receive + it. The Zionist nets are spread out on all the roads of the goyim + (gentiles) and the cycle of the snake is moving along in the + Twentieth century with the speed of an express train towards its + goal. + + "The complete outline of all the secret protocols of the Zionist + Jewish sages, the entire plan of the conquest of the whole world, + will be included in the next (seventh) volume of 'The Talmud and + the Jews.'" + +And this is a facsimile reproduction and translation of Sergius Nilus's +epilogue taken from the copy of the "Protocols" in the British Museum, +from which the American translation was made. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF PAGE OF SERGE NILUS'S BOOK CONTAINING THE PROTOCOLS SHOWING +THE SAME PASSAGE AS IN LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK.] + +[Transliteration: + -395- + + toryja v Maloj Azii budut podderzhivaemy francuzskoj + diplomatiej. + + Konechno, eto trebovanie l'goty ne kasaetsja katolicheskih + uchrezhdenij, izgonjaemyh iz Francii neskol'kimi + poslednimi sostavami eja pravitel'stva, a dokazyvaet lish', + chto Drejfusarovskaja diplomatija vystupaet za interesy + Siona i otkryvaet put' dlja kolonizacii francuzskimi evrejami + Maloj Azii. + + Sion vsegda zavoevyval sebe mesta i vlijanie cherez + svoj rabochij skot s chelovecheskimi licami, kak nazyvaet + Talmud vse ne-evrejskoe chelovechestvo. + + Po dannym tajnago evrejskago Sionizma, Solomonom i + drugimi Iudejskimi mudrecami eshhe za 929 let do Rozhdestva + Hristova byl izmyshlen v teorii politicheskij + plan mirnago zavoevanija dlja Siona vselennoj. Po mere + razvitija istoricheskih sobytij, plan etot byl razrabatyvaem + i popolnjaem posvjashhennymi v eto delo posledovateljami[1]. + + Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' mir dlja Siona + hitrost'ju Simvolicheskago Zmija, glavu kotorago dolzhno bylo + sostavljat' posvjashhennoe v plany mudrecov pravitel'stvo + evreev (vsegda zamaskirovannye dazhe ot svoego naroda), + a tulovishhe--narod Iudejskij. Pronikaja v nedra vstrchaemyh + im na puti gosudarstv, Zmij etot podtachival + i pozhiral (svergaja ih) vse gosudarstvennyja, ne-evrejskija, + sily, po mere ih rosta. Eto zhe dolzhen on delat' + i v budushhem pri tochnom sledovanii prednachertanijam + plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago im puti + ne somknetsja vozvratom Glavy ego na Sione i poka, takim + obrazom, Zmij ne zakljuchit, ne sosredotochit v + sfere svoego kruga vsej Evropy, a cherez nee i + ostal'noj mir, pol'zujas' vsemi silami--zavoevaniem i + ekonomicheskim putem, chtoby podchinit' svoemu vlijaniju, + vlijaniju svoego cikla, i ostal'nye kontingenty. Vozvrat + + [Footnote 1: Ap. Pavel, kak odin iz naibolee darovityh + uchenikov farisejskoj + shkoly, ne mog ne byt' posvjashhen v etu "tajnu bezzakonija, + nahodivshujusja v dejstvii" i v ego vremja. Otsjuda osobaja zloba + gonenija na nego so storony voinstvujushhago Izrailja.] +] + + From the Nilus Epilogue, 1917 + + "According to secret Jewish Zionism, a political plan was devised + in theory for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, by + Solomon and other sages already 929 years before the birth of + Christ. In the course of historical developments, the plan was + elaborated and augmented by their followers initiated in this + affair. These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for + Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake, whose head should + constitute the government of the Jews initiated in the plans of the + sages (always masked even from their own people) and the body--the + Judean nation. Penetrating the bosoms of the governments + encountered on the way, this snake has undermined and eaten away + (overthrowing) all governments, non-Jewish forces according to + their growth. + + "This it should also do in the future, carefully following the + outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is + completed by the return of the head of the snake to Zion, and until + the snake will thus include and concentrate in the sphere of its + circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the rest of the + world, utilizing all forces of conquest and by economic means in + order to subject also the other continents to its influence, to the + influence of its cycle. The return of the head of the snake could + be accomplished only over the razed plains of the governmental + power of all the European countries,--that is through economic + disorganization and ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of + spiritual decadence and moral turpitude, chiefly, with the aid of + Jewish women under the guise of French, Italian and Spanish women, + the best introducers of immorality into the conduct of the rulers + of nations. Women in the hands of Zion serve as bait for those, who + owing to them are always in need of money, and therefore barter + their conscience in order to get money at any cost. This money, in + fact, is only loaned to them, for it quickly comes back to the + hands of bribing Zion through these very women, and at the same + time they have secured slaves for Zion." + +A comparison of these pages shows that Nilus merely added to +Lutostansky's version the statement to be found in Butmi's version that +the political plan for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, was +devised in theory by Solomon and other sages _929 years before the birth +of Christ_. Lutostansky said in 1907 that "the head of the snake +represents the sages of Zion, and the body--the Judean nation," while +Nilus said that the "head should constitute the government of the Jews +initiated in the plans of the sages (always masked even from their own +people) and the body--the Judean nation." Thus the sages of Zion were +transformed by Nilus into "the government of the Jews" in order to +connect the "political plan" all the more closely with the "protocols." +The American editors have omitted this part of the Nilus epilogue, +evidently because it seemed even to them too absurd for American +consumption. + +All of the literature about the "protocols" that appeared in various +parts of the world in 1920 is based on the "documents" vouched for by +the mysterious Sergius Nilus, and fortified by the irresponsible +Jew-baiter and intellectual pervert Ippolit Lutostansky. + +That the Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi campaign was just what the Tsarist +government desired may be seen from the photographic reproduction of +the letter sent to Lutostansky by Grand Duke Michael, who was regarded +as the most liberal among the Russian Grand Dukes. The letter appears +together with other letters of congratulation from members of the +Imperial family in the volume containing the passages quoted above. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +LETTER OF THANKS SENT BY GRAND DUKE MICHAEL TO LUTOSTANSKY FOR HIS +ANTI-SEMITIC WORK.] + +[Transliteration: +Sostojashhij pri +Ego Imperatorskom Vysochestve +Gosudare Naslednike +i +velikom knjaze +Mihaile Aleksandroviche + +7 Nojabrja 1902 g. +N 1443. +S.-Peterburg. + +Ego Vysokoblagorodiju +I. I. Ljutostanskomu. + +Kopija. + +Milostivyj Gosudar' + +Ippolit Iosifovich. + +EGO IMPERATORSKOE VYSOCHESTVO +GOSUDAR' NASLEDNIK I VELIKIJ +KNJAZ' MIHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH +soizvolil blagosklonno prinjat' +podnesennyj Vami trud "Talmud i evrei", +prichem EGO VYSOCHESTVU blagougodno +bylo poruchit' mne peredat' Vam EGO +iskrennjuju priznatel'nost' za Vashe podnesenie. + +Blagovolite prinjat' i moju lichnuju +glubokuju priznatel'nost' za prislannyj +mne ekzempljar Vashej knigi. + +Proshu Vas prinjat' uverenie v sovershennom +moem uvazhenii i iskrennej +predannosti. + +Vsegda gotovyj k uslugam D. Dashkov. +] + +For the benefit of the antisemitic agitators in England, such as the +editors of The Morning Post, The New Witness, The Spectator, Blackwood's +Magazine, and a number of irresponsible publications needless to name, +it will prove instructive and interesting to reproduce a few additional +passages from the same volume, in order that they may know and +appreciate not only what that authority said concerning the Jews but +also what he thought of the English. + +On pages 279, 282 and 283 of volume six of "The Talmud and the Jews," +after outlining the alleged Jewish plot to gain world dominion, +Lutostansky wrote, in 1907: + + "The English are typical pure-blooded Israelites. In ancient times + they were all red-headed, as we see from the descriptions in the + Bible and the New Testament. The characteristic of the Israelites + is known to the whole world under the sun. The characteristic of + the English, if we follow it closely, does not differ from the + Jewish in the slightest degree. Who are the English? This question + has long occupied the minds of many people in Europe, as well as in + England itself. The universal trading traits of the sons of Albion, + their looting politics, based on unfair business, and many other + characteristic traits of the nation which are not peculiar to any + of the other European nations that are even less cultured and + civilized that the English--all these have long seemed very + suspicious and have drawn attention to a certain kinship between + the Anglo-Saxons and the Jews. During the past two decades, in + England and America, also on the European continent, particularly + in France, a whole literature has been created, proving on the + basis of many facts, suppositions and historical references, that + the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race is not Germanic, but Semitic, + that the English are the direct descendants of the Israelites, + thrown by historic fate to the shores of the distant Albion.... + + "Indeed, the lion of Judah, has become the British lion and adorns + the coat of arms of the King of England. The harp of King David to + this day represents the coat of arms of Ireland.... + + "But not only are the kings of England the direct descendants of + Jewish Kings, they are even seated on the throne of David, on which + the ancient Jewish kings were married. This throne, on which Jacob + fell asleep on that night when he dreamt of the ladder and when the + Lord promised the kingdom to his posterity. This stone, called 'the + Stone of Fate,' which served for the weddings of Jewish Kings, was + brought to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah. Tergus (?) transferred + it to Scotland, whence it was taken to London. + + "It is curious to note that many prophecies about this fate of + Israel fit England absolutely, as for instance, the prophesy that + Israel will become a great nation, a kingdom on islands, ruling + over large colonies. + + "North America is inhabited by the tribe of Menasseh of whom it was + said in ancient prophesy that he will become a 'separate great + nation.' The very word _saxon_ is derived from _Isaacson_, that is + the son of Israel.... + + "As one of the signs of kinship between the population of England + and ancient Israel, we cannot help pointing out the close + similarity between the English and Jewish tribes, the similarity in + their manner of speech, and above all, trading as the fundamental + characteristic of both nations.... + + "The particular reverence in which the English hold the Bible + smacks of the Old Testament of the Jews. Even the preference on the + part of the English for long clothes indicates something + Asiatic.... + + "Arousing of late the unanimous indignation of the whole civilized + world, the English at the same time call forth amazement at their + traits, instincts and aspirations which positively make them a + monster in the family of cultured and civilized European nations. + As the proverb says, there is no family without a black sheep. + Every monstrosity, however, is to be explained--Jews come from + Jews." + + * * * * * + +This interesting information is taken from Lutostansky's book. Nilus and +other writers of the Black Hundred camp pictured England in the same +manner immediately after 1905. It was then the Russian governmental +policy to discredit England and the Jews in the eyes of the Russian +people, and the Black Hundreds were employed by the Tsar as the medium +through which to carry on this agitation. + +The "Black Hundreds" started their campaign in 1905, but their work was +so venomous, so absurd and so steeped in ignorance that there were few +people even in Russia who paid any attention to it. + +That the Nilus protocols which were published by the Black Hundreds were +not taken seriously in Russia by the reactionaries or even by the Black +Hundreds who sought every means of discrediting the Jews, may be +gathered from the fact that in the most stupendous anti-Jewish plot ever +devised by the Russian government to justify Jewish massacres,--the +notorious Beilis case,--the protocols published eight years previously +were never used by the prosecution, even though it resorted to every +foul means that could be conjured up of slandering and vilifying the +Jewish people. The very persons who were instrumental in spreading the +"protocols" in Russia in 1905 seemed to have realized that the false +accusations which they contained were too transparent and too clumsy to +deceive even the most credulous, and so they were discarded. + +But suddenly, after the armistice, a new edition of the Nilus book +containing the "protocols," dated 1917, made its appearance as suitable +to the chaotic conditions that prevailed in Russia and during the past +two years, as has been shown, it was reproduced in various countries. +This time the antisemitic propagandists are trying to connect the +"protocols" directly with Theodore Herzl and the Zionist movement. The +war, the peace treaty and bolshevism are characterized as the +fulfillment of these "protocols" which they say had been devised no less +than 929 years before the birth of Christ, by Solomon and other Sages. +The present "protocols" have been elaborated from the +"Retcliffe-Goedsche" versions by the Russian secret police department +and the Black Hundreds who ascribed all the evils in the world to the +Jews. + +The Black Hundred writer, G. Butmi, whose book "Enemies of the Human +Race," containing the fabricated speech by a "famous Rabbi" side by side +with the "protocols," gives several characteristic passages in his +introduction that will convey to the reader a clear conception of the +type of men who have stood behind the movement to discredit the Jews +through the so-called "protocols." + +On page 36 of this volume, Butmi wrote: + + "The French Revolution, which ended in the execution of Louis XVI + in 1793, was engineered by England with the aid of the Jews and the + Judaized Masons. Only the Jews profited by the French Revolution, + even as they profited by the English Revolution, attaining in the + general turmoil equal rights with the native population of France." + +Discussing the traits of the English people and finding a similarity +between them and the Jews, Butmi said on page 38: + + "The British traits are well known all over the world--their + exceptional selfishness, their inhuman cruelty to foreigners, their + inherent instinct of exploitation, their theoretical stupidity are + mingled with practical shrewdness and utter brazenness." + +On page 39 he said: + + "Meanwhile the Britons have not distinguished themselves in + anything, if we are not to take into consideration the fact that + being thoroughly incapable of creating their own language, they + have by their talent to distort languages given to the present + English people a repulsive Judeo-Carthaginian imprint through their + shameless self-satisfaction, arrogance and treacherous + inclinations." + +On page 41 he said: + + "In 1843 the first lodge of the new Jewish union 'Bnai Brith' was + organized in New York. Gradually this Jewish 'Bnai Brith' + concentrates in its hands the direction of all Masonic lodges in + America, and through them it directs American politics." + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF A NILUS PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1905. PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE +BOOK IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.] + +[Transliteration: +-364- + +Kto zapodozrit togda, chto vse eti problemy byli podstroeny +nami po politicheskomu planu, kotorago nikto ne +raskusil v techenii mnogih vekov?!. .... + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my vocarimsja nam ne zhelatel'no budet sushhestvovanie +drugoj religii, krome nashej o Edinom Boge, +s Kotorym nasha sud'ba svjazana ego izbraniem i Kotorym +ta zhe nasha sud'ba ob'edinena s sud'bami mira. +Poetomu my dolzhny razrushit' vsjakija verovanija. +Esli ot etogo rodjatsja sovremennye ateisty, to, kak perehodnaja +stupen' eto ne pomeshaet nashim vidam, a posluzhit +primerom dlja teh pokolenij, kotoryja budut +slushat' propovedi nashi o religii Moiseja, +privedshej svoej stojkoj i obdumannoj sistemoj +k pokoreniju nam vseh narodov. V etom my +podcherknem i misticheskuju eja pravdu, v kotoroj, skazhem +my, osnovyvaetsja vsja eja vospitatel'naja sila.... . +Togda pri kazhdom sluchae my budem publikovat' stat'i, +v kotoryh budem sravnivat' nashe blagoe pravlenie s +proshlymi. Blagodejanija pokoja, hotja i vynuzhdennago vekami +volnenij, posluzhat k novomu rel'efu skazannago blaga. +Oshibki goevskih administracij budut opisyvat'sja nami +v samyh jarkih kraskah. My poseem takoe k nim +otvrashhenie, chto narody predpochtut pokoj v krepostnom +sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, stol' +ih izmuchivshim i istoshhivshim samye istochniki chelovecheskago +sushhestvovanija, kotorye eksploatirovalis' tolpoju +prohodimcev, ne vedavshih, chto tvorjat...... Bezpoleznyja +peremeny pravlenij, k kotorym my podbivali goev, +kogda podkapyvali ih gosudarstvennyja zdanija, do togo nadoedjat +k tomu vremeni narodam, chto oni predpochtut +terpet' ot nas vse, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytyvat' +perezhityja volnenija i nevzgody. My zhe osobenno budem +podcherkivat' istoricheskija oshibki goevskih pravlenij, +stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo otsutstviem + +-365- + +soobrazitel'nosti vo vsem, chto kasaetsja istinnago ego +blaga, v pogone za fantasticheskimi proektami social'nyh +blag, ne zamechaja, chto eti proekty vse bolee uhudshali, +a ne uluchshali polozhenie vseobshhih otnoshenij, na kotoryh +osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'... + +Vsja sila nashih principov i meroprijatij budet zakljuchena +v tom, chto oni nami vystavjatsja i istolkujutsja, +kak jarkij kontrast razlozhivshimsja starym porjadkam +obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' vse nedostatki goevskih +verovanij, no nikto nikogda ne stanet obsuzhdat' +nashu veru s eja istinnoj tochki zrenija, tak kak ee +nikto osnovatel'no ne uznaet, krome nashih, kotorye +nikogda ne posmejut vydat' eja tajny. + +V stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi, my sozdali +bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu. +Eshhe nekotoroe vremja posle vstuplenija nashego +vo vlast' my stanem pooshhrjat' eja sushhestvovanie, +chtoby ona rel'efnee obrisovala kontrast +rechej, programm, kotoryja razdadutsja s vysot +nashih....... Nashi umnye ljudi, vospitannye dlja +rukovodstva gojami, budut sostavljat' rechi, proekty, +zapiski, stat'i, kotorymi my budem vlijat' na +umy, napravljaja ih k namechennym nami ponjatijam +i znanijam. + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my, nakonec okonchatel'no vocarimsja pri pomoshhi +gosudarstvennyh perevorotov, vsjudu podgotovlennyh +k odnomu i tomu zhe dnju, posle okonchatel'nago priznanija +negodnosti vseh sushhestvujushhih pravitel'stv (a +do etogo projdet eshhe ne malo vremeni, mozhet byt' i +celyj vek), my postaraemsja, chtoby protiv nas uzhe ne +bylo zagovorov. Dlja etogo my nemiloserdno kaznim vseh +kto vstretit nashe vocarenie s oruzhiem v rukah. Vsjakoe +novoe uchrezhdenie kakogo-libo tajnago obshhestva budet +] + +[_Translation of the Nilus Protocol published in Russia in 1905._] + +"When we become rulers, we shall regard as undesirable the existence of +any religion except our own, proclaiming one God with Whom our fate is +tied as the Chosen People, and by Whom our fate has been made one with +the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all other +religions. If thereby should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a +transition step, this will not interfere with our aims. It will serve as +an example to coming generations who will listen to the teachings of the +Mosaic religion. By its sound and reasonable system, we have achieved +the subjugation of all nations. We shall emphasize its mystic law in +which we will say lies all power. + +"On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will compare our +beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of peace, though achieved +through centuries of turmoil, will stand out in relief in this era of +blessings. The shortcomings of the Gentile administrations will be +pictured by us in the darkest colors. We will sow such antipathy toward +their governments that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of +servitude to the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them +and destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were +exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were doing. +The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of +administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were +undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate +anything from us rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and +hardships. We will especially emphasize the historical mistakes of the +Gentile administrations which caused mankind to suffer for many +centuries through lack of real understanding in all that concerned its +true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of social welfare and not +noticing that these projects made worse instead of better the state of +general relationships which are the basis of human existences. + +"The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie in that they +are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp contrast to the old and +decayed order of society. + +"Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the Gentile +religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion from the +true point of view except our own people. We shall have a fundamental +knowledge of it and will never dare to disclose its secrets. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transliteration: + +75 + +N 17. + +(po rukopisi protokol 16-j). + + +Kogda my vocarimsja, my budem pri kazhdom udobnom sluchae +sravnivat' Nashe blagoe Pravlenie s proshlymi bezalabernymi +administracijami... Oshibki goevskih carstv budut opisyvat'sja +nami v samyh jarkih kraskah: my poseem takoe +prezrenie i otvrashhenie k nim, chto narody predpochtut pokoj +i mir v krepostnom sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, +stol' izmuchivshej ih v techenie vekov, istoshhiv samye +istochniki sushhestvovanija, popiraemye prohodimcami, ne vedajushhimi, +chto tvorjat. + +Bezpoleznyja, de fakto, peremeny pravlenij, na kotoryja my +ih podbivali, kogda podkapyvali ih stroj, do togo im nadoedjat +do teh por, chto oni predpochtut prinjat' vse to, chto +my im navjazhem, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytat' perezhityja +nevzgody i volnenija, tem bolee, chto my budem, publichnoju +kritikoj, osobenno podcherkivat' oshibki upravlenija goevskih +pravlenij, stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo +nedostatkom soobrazitel'nosti na istinnyja blaga, v pogone za +fantasticheskimi social'nymi uluchshenijami, ne zamechaja, chto, uluchshaja +byt nekotoryh, mery eti uhudshali vseobshhija otnoshenija +i porjadok stroja, na kotorom osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'. + +Nashi principy i mery budut imet' v svoju pol'zu to, chto +oni budut istolkovany i vystavleny, kak kontrast s razlozhivshimsja +starym porjadkam obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' i kritikovat' vse nedostatki +goevskih verovanij, v chem oni nam otvetit' ne mogut +po otnosheniju Nashej Very, potomu chto nikto eja tajn ne +znaet, krome nashih talmudistov i ravvinov, a oni nikogda +ne vydadut ih, potomu chto na nih osnovana sila upravlenija +pastvoju nashej. + +My sozdali bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu, +osobenno v stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi. Posle vstuplenija +nashego vo vlast' my nekotoroe vremja ne zapretim eja, no +budem ee iskorenjat' strogoju kritikoj, chtoby ona, kak ostatok +goevskih ruin, rel'efnee obrisovyvala kontrast togo, +chto razdavat'sja budet s Nashej Vysoty, s tem, chto iskhodilo +iz grjaznago bolota goevskih carstv. +] + + "In countries that are called advanced, we have created a + senseless, filthy, and disgusting literature. For a short time + after our entrance into power, we shall encourage its existence so + that it may show in great relief the contrast between it and the + written and spoken announcements which will emanate from our + exalted position. Our wise men, educated for leadership of the + Gentiles, will prepare speeches, plans, notes, and articles, + through which we shall influence their minds, directing them along + the lines of knowledge and understanding which we intend them to + follow." + +[_Translation of the same Protocol published by Butmi in Russia in 1907, +showing the changes made in the Protocols within two years._] + + "When we become rulers, we shall at each suitable occasion compare + our beneficent rule with the former unsystematic + administrations.... The mistakes of the administrations of the + Gentiles will be pictured by us in the most lurid colors: we will + sow such antipathy and hatred toward these governments that the + masses will prefer peace and quiet in a condition of servitude to + the rights of the so-called liberty which for many ages had so + tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human existence + and which were exploited by adventurers, who did not realize what + they were doing. + + "The masses will become so satiated with the useless changes of + administration, which we instigated when we were undermining their + institutions, that they will accept anything that we may give them + rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and disorder.... + Moreover, we will, through public criticism, especially emphasize + the mistakes of the Gentile administrations which caused mankind to + suffer for many centuries through lack of real understanding in all + that concerned its true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of + social welfare and not noticing that these projects made worse + instead of better the state of general relationships which are the + basis of human existence. + + "Our principles and faith will be especially useful inasmuch as + they will be put forward and interpreted by us as a contrast to the + old and decayed order of society. + + "Our philosophers will discuss and criticise the shortcomings of + the Gentile religions, but the latter will not be able to answer + with regard to our faith, for no one is acquainted with its + mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists, and they will never + reveal it, for on them depends the power of guiding our flock. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF NILUS PROTOCOL WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1905 AND CHANGED BY +BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transliteration: + +-345- + +hitrost'ju i pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij, +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja "oficial'nym jazykom", +my budem derzhat'sja protivopolozhnoj taktiki i +budem kazat'sja chestnymi i sgovorchivymi. Takim obrazom +narody i pravitel'stva goev, kotoryh my priuchili +smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju storonu togo, chto my im +predstavljaem, primut nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej +roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my dolzhny byt' +v sostojanii otvetit' vojnoj s sosedjami toj +strane, kotoraja osmelitsja nam protivodejstvovat', +no, esli i sosedi eti zadumajut stat' +kollektivno protiv nas, to my dolzhny dat' +otpor vseobshhej vojnoj. + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slovo ne dolzhno soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomata. + +K dejstvijam v pol'zu shiroko zadumannago nami +plana, uzhe blizjashhagosja k vozhdelennomu koncu, my dolzhny +vynuzhdat' goevskija pravitel'stva jakoby obshhestvennym +mneniem, vtajne podstroennym nami +pri pomoshhi tak nazyvaemoj "velikoj derzhavy"--pechati, +kotoraja, za nemnogimi iskljuchenijami, +s kotorymi schitat'sja ne stoit,--vsja +uzhe v rukah nashih. + +Odnim slovom, chtoby rezjumirovat' nashu sistemu obuzdanija +goevskih pravitel'stv v Evrope my odnomu iz +nih pokazhem svoju silu pokushenijami, t.e. terrorom, +a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie protiv nas', my +otvetim Amerikanskimi ili Kitajskimi, ili +Japonskimi pushkami. + + + +Sledujushhij protokol. + +My dolzhny zaruchit'sja dlja sebja vsemi orudijami, kotorymi +nashi protivniki mogli by vospol'zovat'sja protiv +nas. My dolzhny budem vyiskivat' v samyh tonkih +vyrazhenijah i zagvozdkah pravovogo slovarja opravdanija +] + + "We have created a senseless, filthy and disgusting literature, + especially in the so-called advanced countries. For a short time + after our entrance into power we will not prohibit this literature, + but will weed it out by means of destructive criticism, in order + that, as a remnant of the Gentile ruins, there should be a stronger + contrast between the literature that will come down from Our Height + and that which emanated from the filthy mud of the Gentile + governments." + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF BUTMI PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1907, SHOWING THE CHANGE MADE +AFTER THE REVOLUTION.] + +[Transliteration: +52 + +Dlja dostizhenija etogo, po vsej Evrope, a s pomoshh'ju eja otnoshenij +i na drugih kontinentah, my dolzhny sozdat' brozhenija, +prerekanija, razdory i vrazhdu. V etom--dvojakaja pol'za: vo +pervyh, my derzhim v strahe vse strany, horosho vedajushhija, +chto my vlastny proizvesti po zhelaniju bezporjadki ili vodvorit' +porjadok v nih. One privykli videt' v nas neobhodimoe +davlenie: _my zaputali vse niti, protjanutyja v Gosudarstvennye +Kabinety vsemirnoju politikoj, ekonomicheskimi dogovorami +ili dolgovymi objazatel'stvami_. Dlja dostizhenija etogo +poslednjago obstojatel'stva nam nado bylo vooruzhit'sja bol'shoju +hitrost'ju i dazhe pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij: +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja official'nym jazykom, +my dolzhny byli kazat'sja sgovorchivymi i pravdivymi. Takim +obrazom goi, _kotoryh my priuchili smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju +storonu togo, chto my im predstavljaem_, prinimajut +nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my gotovy otvetit' protivodejstvujushhej +Strane vojnoju s sosedjami, a esli mnogie zadumajut +kollektivno dejstvovat' protiv nas, to my zavjazhem uzel +vseobshhej vojny, i nezametno dlja nih podob'em ih na eto... + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slova ne dolzhny soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomatov. + +[Transcriber's Note: The following paragraph is circled.] +_My uspeshno vynuzhdali ne raz k vojne goevskija pravitel'stva, +jakoby obshhestvennym mneniem, v tajne podstroennym +nami. Odnomu iz nih my dokazyvali svoi sily v pokushenijah--v +terrore, a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie, +my otvetim Amerikanskimi, Kitajskimi ili Japonskimi pushkami, +kotoryja vsecelo v nashem rasporjazhenii._ + +N 5. + +(po rukopisi protokol 2-j). + +Nam neobhodimo, chtoby vojny ne davali territorial'nyh +vygod. Eto pereneset vojnu na ekonomicheskuju pochvu, na kotoroj +nacii ubedjatsja v tom, chto preobladanie zavisit ot +_nashej pomoshhi_, a takoe polozhenie veshhej otdast obe storony v +rasporjazhenie nashej internacional'noj agentury, obladajushhej +millionami glaz, vzorov, ne pregrazhdennyh nikakimi granicami... +Togda nashi internacional'nyja prava sotrut vse narodnyja +prava i budut imi pravit' tak, kak grazhdanskoe +] + +Thus it is seen that Butmi, publishing his version of the "protocols" in +1907, two years after the Nilus version had appeared, changed the text +to suit his purposes. In 1905, before the first Russian revolution, the +Nilus version of the "protocols" said "_we will show one of them our +strength by means of violence, that is, by terrorism_." After the +revolution, Butmi changed this sentence to read "_We have shown one of +these governments our powers by assassination, by terrorism_." + +And now the introducers of the "protocols" in this country and in Europe +are pointing to bolshevism as the fulfillment of the "documents" which +have been concocted, elaborated and changed by antisemites to serve the +devious political purposes of their masters and their own. + +The "protocols" came into the world with the trademark, "made in +Germany" and were elaborated under the auspices of the "Russian Black +Hundreds" in their efforts to save the dying Russian autocracy. When the +Russian autocracy was overthrown and members of the "Black Hundreds" +were scattered in various lands, their financial and "moral" support +shattered, they set out in quest of new sources of income. They are now +resorting to their old discredited methods in a new environment and thus +the poison of the Russian Black Hundreds is being spread in England, +Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, Japan, and even in this +country. The voice is the voice of dead despotic Russia, and the hand is +the hand of the same "Black Hundreds." + +And now cowardly anonymous writers are embellishing the "protocols," +adding new lies to the old ones, making accusations against the Jews +that even Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi dared not make in darkest Russia. +Perhaps some day these new legends and absurd, malicious myths may +evolve into a new and revised edition of secret Jewish "protocols." + +In periods of turmoil and unrest such venomous fabrications may gain +credence among the ignorant and may poison their minds. But, like all +anti-semitic myths of old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to +destroy themselves. A lie shuns the sunlight. It thrives in darkness. It +cannot survive analysis. The truth will prevail. + +Israel has no secret protocols, no hidden designs. After all its +tribulations, its dream is still of peace, of justice and of human +brotherhood. After all the centuries the word that came from Sinai and +the message of the prophets of old are still enshrined in its heart. +Indeed as has been aptly said: "The Holy Scriptures are the only +authentic protocols of the Wise Men of Zion." + +THE END + + + + +Books From +translated by HERMAN BERNSTEIN the Russian + + +=RESURRECTION. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1900.) It depicts with +a master hand the ocean of life rocked by storm and lulled to sleep and +ease. In the splash of every wave is heard the story of human emotions, +misery, disenchantment, suffering, crime, and life, that is true--even in +art. Illustrated. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +="FOMA GORDEYEV." By Maxim Gorky.= (Published 1901.) This book made +Gorky's literary reputation in Russia, Germany and France. It is a most +remarkable novel. The New York _Evening Post_ says: + + "Maxim Gorky, the young Russian poet of the vagabond and the + proletariat, the most ardent worshipper at the shrine of Nietzsche + and his ideal 'Over-Man,' owes much of his sudden popularity to his + personality. The son of a poor upholsterer, Gorky was thrown upon + his own resources at the age of nine and since then has experienced + a wide range of human emotions, struggles, depravity and misery. + Shoemaker, apple peddler, painter, dock-hand, railroad workman, + baker and tramp, this unique author had a thousand and one similar + occupations, and had even made more than one attempt to take his + own life." + +This version of =Foma Gordeyev=, is in no way abridged, giving the exact +reproduction of the thought and expression of the author. Cloth bound. +Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED. By Leonid Andreyev.= (Published 1909.) What +reviewers say: + + "It is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more + impressive than any other Russian fiction translated in a long + time. Under the crystal simplicity of Andreyev's style each spirit + reveals itself, stripped of its bodily covering, in its inmost + truth."--=New York Times.= + + "Grewsome because it is fearfully real. But it is compelling for + the same reason."--=New York World.= + + "It is not a mere morbid probing into the abnormal and horrible. It + has its mission. It is a grim and terrible picture, and it is + painted with tremendous art--the art of a Dore."--=Chicago + Inter-Ocean.= + +Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE FORGED COUPON. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1912.) This story +shows the successive evil and wrong resulting from the forging of a bank +note by a student in need of money. Numerous crimes succeed each other +as a result of this first wrong act, until the wave of crime is checked +by a poor, ignorant woman and a lame tailor, who follow the real +teaching of Christ. The book contains also =After the Ball=, a story of +love and military life; =Korney Vasilyev=, a story of peasant life; +=Tolstoi's Vital Humanitarian Ideas=, giving the very essence of the +fountain-spring and incentive of all the literary work ever written by +this wonderful man--a peep, as it were, at the power-works of his +thinking machine. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + * * * * * + +=J.S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 57 Rose Street, NEW YORK= + + +[Transcriber's note: The following apparent misprints were +corrected for this electronic edition. + +"answered the learned Polish Jew" + --was "answerd" +"reactionary Chernsk nobility made" + --was "Chersnk" +"Constantinople!" + --was "Constaninople" +"Our nation is ostentatious and greedy..." + --was missing opening single quote +"sole possessors of all the gold to be found on earth" + --were two blank lines between "all the gold" and "to be found" +"free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts." + --was "scepticsm" +"tremendous capital which is in their possession" + --was "possesson" +"Russia adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of vengeance" + --was "vengenance" +"less cultured and civilized that the English" + --left as printed (unverifiable translation) +"mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists" + --was "Tadmudists" +"historical mistakes of the Gentile" + --was "Gentle" +"must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking" + --left as printed +"The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin" + --was "Nikolayevtich" +Any misprints in Cyrillic facsimile pages are left uncorrected. +The capitalization and hyphenation of anti-Semitic (and variants) +is inconsistent throughout, and left as printed.] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The History of a Lie, by Herman Bernstein + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19200-8.txt or 19200-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/0/19200/ + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of a Lie + 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' + +Author: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: September 8, 2006 [EBook #19200] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<div class="trans"><h5>Transcriber's Note</h5> +<p>This text has many notes in [square brackets] which are present in the original.</p> +<p>Facsimile pages present in the original text have been reproduced as images. +Transcriptions and transliterations of these facsimiles, added in this electronic +edition, are set off from the main text after the facsimile. Transcriptions follow +the GOST system. +</p></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h1><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a><span class="pagenum" title="1"></span>THE HISTORY OF A LIE</h1> + +<p class="center"><em>“The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion”</em></p> + +<p class="center"><em>“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”</em> + —<span class="smcap">Oliver Wendell Holmes.</span></p> + +<h2>A STUDY</h2> +<h3>BY</h3> +<h2>HERMAN BERNSTEIN</h2> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Author of “With Master Minds,” Etc.</span></p> + +<p class="center">NEW YORK<br /> +J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY<br /> +57 ROSE STREET</p> +<p class="center"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a><span class="pagenum" title="2"></span><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1921, By J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a><span class="pagenum" title="3"></span><a name="FOREWORD" id="FOREWORD"></a><em>FOREWORD</em></h2> + + +<p><em>This is the history of a Lie—of a cruel and terrible +Lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish +people. Given out as fiction, by a German anti-Semitic +writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, who +concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, +it was gradually changed and elaborated, and finally +groomed as fact. Agents of the Russian secret police +department and of the unscrupulous “Black Hundreds” +then utilized this fiction as the framework for the “protocols” +through which they sought to crush the Jews and +prop up the tottering Russian dynasty.</em></p> + +<p><em>Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, +still dreaming of their past glory and of a restoration of +their privileges, are at work again, both here and abroad.</em></p> + +<p><em>Out of the scrapheap of Russian autocracy, they have +exhumed their old weapons and are striking at the Jews +again. Upon the structure of the old myths they are +striving to erect new falsehoods in order to intensify +everywhere chaos and confusion and dissatisfaction so +that they may attain their own dastardly and selfish ends.</em></p> + +<p><em>In the war’s aftermath the Jews are being blamed by +the minions of autocracy and reaction for all the ills that +have befallen mankind. Some blame them for the war, +and others for the peace. Some attack them for the +defeat of the German military machine, and others +for the victory of the allies. In Germany they are attacked +by the Junkers for having opposed the submarine +warfare and thus assured Germany’s defeat; while in +some of the allied countries the Jews are denounced for +constituting “the brains of Germany.” All the revolutionary +<a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a><span class="pagenum" title="4"></span>leaders of Germany are credited to the Jews, and +bolshevism, which has as little in common with Judaism +as it has with Christianity, is branded as a Jewish movement; +and there are Jew-baiters who in their blind +madness have gone so far as to declare that ex-Kaiser +Wilhelm was not only influenced by the Jews but is himself +of Jewish descent, and for this reason did not +defend Germany as loyally as he should have done. He +conspired against the Hohenzollern dynasty and undermined +it. He destroyed his own throne because he was +serving the secret Jewish world organization.</em></p> + +<p><em>On such absurdities have people been fed, since the +armistice, in civilized countries by antisemitic agitators +and their dupes, while Jews have been slaughtered in the +Ukraine, in Poland and in Hungary.</em></p> + +<p><em>I submit in this little book the documentary evidence +showing how the so-called “Protocols of the Wise Men +of Zion” on which this new crusade is predicated, were +forged.</em></p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Herman Bernstein.</span></p> + +<p><em>New York, February, 1921.</em></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a><span class="pagenum" title="5"></span><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2> + +<p> <span class="tocpg" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Page</span></p> +<p class="tocdesc" style="font-variant: small-caps;"><a href="#FOREWORD">Foreword</a> +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></span></p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_ONE">CHAPTER ONE</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">The Mysterious Protocols</p> +<p class="tocdesc">The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy—Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?—Anonymous Accusations—The Mysterious +“Protocols” of Sergei Nilus—How did “Nilus” Secure +Them?—Contradictory Explanations—Who is “Nilus”? +How his Sponsors Disagree—What Russian Publicists +Say +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></span> +</p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_TWO">CHAPTER TWO</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">The Story From Which the Protocols +Were Fabricated</p> +<p class="tocdesc">Essence of “Protocols” Was German Fiction of “Sir John +Retcliffe”—Who Was “Retcliffe”?—His Infamous Record—His +Bloodcurdling Story—The Meeting in the +Cemetery—An Avowed Myth—Meeting Every Hundred +Years Attended by “Representatives of the Twelve +Tribes of Israel”—The “Son of the Accursed” Also Attends +and Provides Comic Interludes +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></span> +</p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_THREE">CHAPTER THREE</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">Fiction Forged Into “Fact”</p> +<p class="tocdesc">The Lie in its Second Stage—The Tale Becomes “Fact”—The +“Rabbi’s” Speech—Its Authenticity Vouched for by +“Retcliffe”—An Illuminating Footnote—A Dedication to +The Russian “Black Hundreds”—The Imaginary +“Speech” Bears Witness to Authenticity of “Protocols,” +Themselves Based on “Speech”—Three Stages of the +<a name="Page_6" id="Page_6"></a><span class="pagenum" title="6"></span>Lie +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></span> +</p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_FOUR">CHAPTER FOUR</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">The Russian Sponsors of the Forgery</p> +<p class="tocdesc">Nilus on the Protocols—Only “the God-Anointed Tsar of +Russia” Can Save the World—Passages from Nilus +Omitted by Translators—On Tolstoy—On the Emancipation +of Women—On the “Sanhedrin” and “its Faithful +Ally, England” +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></span> +</p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_FIVE">CHAPTER FIVE</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">Forgers Disagree</p> +<p class="tocdesc">The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be +Confounded with “Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan +for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.—The +“Symbolic Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every +Jew Familiar with Plot +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></span> +</p> + +<p class="tocchno"><a href="#CHAPTER_SIX">CHAPTER SIX</a></p> +<p class="tocchnm">The Black Hundreds, Their Dupes and Crimes</p> +<p class="tocdesc">Russia in 1905—The Unsuccessful Revolution—The Reaction +and the Reactionaries—Lutostansky and His Work—The +“Symbolic Snake” According to Lutostansky—Who +Plagiarized?—Lutostansky on the English People—Are +the English the “Lost Tribes”?—How the Protocols +Were “Doctored” by Butmi—Conclusion +<span class="tocpg"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></span> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7"></a><span class="pagenum" title="7"></span><a name="CHAPTER_ONE" id="CHAPTER_ONE"></a>CHAPTER ONE</h2> + +<h3>THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS</h3> + +<h4>The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy—Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?—Anonymous Accusations—The Mysterious “Protocols” +of Sergei Nilus—How did “Nilus” Secure Them?—Contradictory +Explanations—Who is “Nilus”?—How his +Sponsors Disagree—What Russian Publicists Say.</h4> + + +<p>Is there a Jewish conspiracy against the world or is +there a conspiracy against the Jews? What are the so-called +“Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion?” Who is +“the Russian mystic,” Sergius Nilus, the sponsor of the +Protocols? What forces are behind the anti-Jewish +propaganda that is international in scope and that seeks +at this time to spread all over the world the poison of +prejudice and hatred against the Jews, reviving long-exploded +mediaeval legends?</p> + +<p>Many Americans have asked these questions ever since +the publication of “The Cause of the World Unrest,” +“The Protocols and World Revolution,” “The Protocols +of the Wise Men of Zion,” and the anti-Jewish articles in +Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent.</p> + +<p>In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports +to be a book by one Sergius Nilus was published in Germany. +During 1920 a translation was published in England +under the name of “The Jewish Peril,” and under +various titles, in different versions, it was reproduced in +the United States, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland +and even Japan. The Japanese edition is in the Russian +language. In all these books “the Russian mystic,” +Sergius Nilus, is given as the sponsor of a number of +secret “documents” by which it is intended to show that +<a name="Page_8" id="Page_8"></a><span class="pagenum" title="8"></span>the Jews are responsible for all the ills that have already +befallen the world and that are still to come.</p> + +<p>The method is simple. Was there a revolution in Russia? +Blame the Jews. Was there a revolution in Germany? +Blame the Jews. Who made the French Revolution? +The Jews. Who caused the World War? The +Jews. Who profited by the war? The Jews. Is there +anywhere an industrial crisis? The Jews are, of course, +the cause of it. Has the World War brought forth Bolshevism? +The Jews are naturally the fathers of it. First +the Jews engineered the war, and then they pulled the +strings behind the scenes of the Peace Conference. They +secured special privileges at the Peace Table, because, +according to the Protocols, they control the gold of the +world, the press of the world, the rulers of the world. +And if, as a result of the World War, millions of Jews +have suffered untold agonies, persecution, starvation, and +pogroms, it is no doubt only part of their deep-laid plot +to gain control of the world for Zion through poverty +and suffering!</p> + +<p>Are governments just to the Jews, giving them +equal rights? Then it is obvious that Jews are either at +the head of such governments or are hidden behind the +present rulers. If the Jews cannot exert sufficient influence +over the rulers themselves, there are Jewesses +in high places, through whom the cause of Zion is served—and +all this is done by the Jews with but one aim in +view—to dominate the world, to become its autocratic +masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom +and set up Israel as “the despot” over the peoples of the +earth. According to the Protocols, all this is engineered +with the aid and through the instrumentality of the Freemasons.</p> + +<p>The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England, +<a name="Page_9" id="Page_9"></a><span class="pagenum" title="9"></span>France, the Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United +States, basing all their arguments on the “Protocols” +vouched for by “the Russian mystic” Sergius Nilus, see +in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment +of the prophecies outlined by the so-called “Wise Men +of Zion” years ago. The propagandists are violent and +vicious, foaming at their mouths, appealing to the basest +passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their fingers at +“the source of all evil”—at the Jews who constitute but +a fraction of one per cent of the world’s population, and +who are in Europe to-day, after the close of the World +War, more wretched and miserable than ever before,—persecuted, +hounded and starved.</p> + +<p>What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they +come to “the Russian mystic” who revealed them in 1905, +and which have now been exhumed from obscurity for +the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point +to the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and confusion?</p> + +<p>Nilus, “the Russian mystic,” is credited with several +versions of how he had secured the Protocols, and his +stories flatly contradict one another. In 1905 he said +that the Protocols were given to him by a prominent Russian +conservative whose name he did not mention, and +who in turn had received them from an unnamed woman +who had stolen them from “one of the most influential +leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a secret meeting +of the initiated in France.” Then, several years later, +Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the +Protocols from “the headquarters of the Society of Zion +in France.” Several years afterwards, in a new edition +of his book, Nilus said that the “Protocols” came from +Switzerland and not from France. This time he named +his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died +<a name="Page_10" id="Page_10"></a><span class="pagenum" title="10"></span>in the meantime. He added that the Protocols were not +Jewish-Masonic but Zionist documents secretly read at +the Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897.</p> + +<p>Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing +the date of 1917. A translation of this edition has recently +appeared in this country, containing a brand-new +explanation as to how the Protocols were rescued and +given to the world. This explanation is taken from the +German version published in Charlottenburg. The introduction +to that edition says that the Protocols, having +been read from day to day at the Basle Congress, were +sent as read to Frankfort on the Main. The disclosure +of them came through the infidelity of the messenger.</p> + +<p>The 1917 edition is published with a prologue and an +epilogue, like a drama, which indeed it is, with all the +ingredients of melodrama—a villain, a mysterious woman, +a Grand Duke, a conspiracy to destroy the world, and a +saint—Nilus, who convicts himself in his own writings +of falsification in the giving of these various accounts of +how the Protocols came into his possession.</p> + +<p>Nothing is known of Sergius Nilus. Russian standard +reference books and encyclopedias contain no mention of +his name.</p> + +<p>The anonymous American editor of the Nilus book +gives the following information about Nilus:</p> + +<p>“Serge Nilus, in the 1905 edition of whose book was +first published the <em>Zionist Protocols</em>, was, as he states, +born in the year 1862, of Russian parents holding liberal +opinions. His family was fairly well known in Moscow, +for its members were educated people who were firm in +their allegiance to the Tsar and the Greek Church. On +one side he is said to have been connected by marriage +with the nobility of the Baltic provinces. Nilus himself +was graduated from the University of Moscow and early +<a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a><span class="pagenum" title="11"></span>entered the civil service, obtaining a small appointment +in the law courts. Later, he received a post under the +Procurator of a provincial court in the Caucasus. Finally, +tiring of the law, he went to the Government of Orel, +where he was a landowner and a noble. His spiritual life +had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he +entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow. +‘In answer to his appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern +and angry, appeared to him twice in a vision. He left +the Monastery a converted man.’</p> + +<p>“From 1905 until the present, little is known of his +activities. Articles are said to have appeared from time +to time in the Russian press from his pen. A returning +traveller from Siberia in August, 1919, was positive in his +statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk in June of that +year. Whether his final fate was that of Admiral Kolchak +is not known.”</p> + +<p>The American editor of Sergius Nilus’s book containing +the “Protocols” is hiding behind anonymity. The name +of the traveller from Siberia who was so positive in his +statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also concealed. +And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei “appeared twice +in a vision” “is said to have written articles in the Russian +press” of which nobody has knowledge.</p> + +<p>In Germany, Nilus is described as follows:</p> +<p>“Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret +police department, of the <em>okhrana</em>, connected with the +Church, especially relating to ‘foreign religions.’ He lived +for some time at the Optina Pustina monastery. In 1901 +he published a book entitled ‘The Great in the Small and +the Anti-Christ.’ According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus +claims to have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the +Protocols from the secret archives of the Main Zionist +organization in France, but he published the ‘protocols’ +<a name="Page_12" id="Page_12"></a><span class="pagenum" title="12"></span>only in 1905. A second edition appeared in 1911, and +finally another edition was brought out in the beginning +of 1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed.”</p> + +<p>“The Cause of the World Unrest,” an anonymous book +published in England and reprinted in this country, speaks +of Nilus and the “Protocols” as follows:</p> + +<p>“In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a +book entitled <em>The Great in Little</em>. The second edition, +which was published at Tsarskoye Selo in 1905, had an +additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading ‘Anti-Christ +as a Near Political Possibility.’ This chapter consisted +of some twenty pages of introduction followed by +the text of twenty-four ‘Protocols of Meetings of the +Learned Elders of Zion,’ and the book ends with some +twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus.</p> + +<p>“Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by +Nilus that they are ‘signed by representatives of Zion +of the thirty-third degree.’ These protocols were secretly +extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of protocols. +All this was got by my correspondent out of the +secret depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This +Chancellery is at present on French territory.”</p> + +<p>In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is +only definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of +belief, and that through Jewish sources, that these protocols +are nothing other than the strategic plans for the conquest of +the world under the heel of Israel, and worked out by the +leaders of the Jewish people—and read by the ‘Prince of Exile,’ +Theodor Herzl, during the first Zionist Congress, summoned by +him in August, 1897, in Basle.”</p></div> + +<p>It will be shown later that the so-called Butmi edition +of the “protocols” published in 1907 contains the definite +statement of the man who claims to have translated them +<a name="Page_13" id="Page_13"></a><span class="pagenum" title="13"></span>into Russian from the French in 1901 that the Elders of +Zion mentioned in the Protocols are not to be confounded +with the Zionist movement.</p> + +<p>In the 1917 edition Sergius Nilus wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“In 1901 I came into possession of a manuscript, and this +comparatively small book was destined to cause a deep change +in my entire viewpoint as can only be caused in the heart of +man by Divine Power. It was comparable with the miracle of +making the blind see. ‘May Divine acts show on him.’</p> + +<p>“This manuscript was called ‘the protocols of the Zionist +Men of Wisdom,’ and it was given to me by the now deceased +leader of the Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor +of Stavropol, Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin. I had already +begun to work with my pen for the glory of the Lord, and I +was friendly with Sukhotin. <em>He was a man of my opinion</em>, +that is, extremely conservative, as they are now termed.</p> + +<p>“Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manuscript +from a lady who always lived abroad. This lady was a +noblewoman from Tchernigov. He mentioned her by name, but +I have forgotten it. He said that she obtained it in some mysterious +way, by theft, I believe.</p> + +<p>“Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was +given by this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, +upon her return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently +killed. He said other things of the same mysterious character. +But when I first became acquainted with the contents of the +manuscript I was convinced that its terrible, cruel and straight-forward +truth is witness of its true origin from the ‘Zionist Men +of Wisdom,’ and that no other evidence of its origin would be +needed.”</p></div> + +<p>Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia’s most famous liberals, +a member of the nobility, a former member of the +Duma, writing recently of the Nilus protocols and of +Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own +opinion, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its +success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was +a Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It +<a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a><span class="pagenum" title="14"></span>is said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, +the notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk.</p> + +<p>“The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in +that edition Nilus said, ‘Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.’</p> + +<p>“The name of the notorious Alexey <a name="typo11" id="typo11"></a>Nikolayevitch Sukhotin +means nothing to the present generation. But there was a time +when his name attracted attention.</p> + +<p>“Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for refusing +to cart manure from his stables because the animals +there were infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the +peasants. Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified +his act by writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, +that he had arrested the peasants not because they refused to +cart his manure but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo +official. The reactionary <a name="typo1_a"></a>Chernsk nobility made Sukhotin marshal +of nobility. So it was this man who furnished the protocols +of the secret meetings of the representatives of Zion! But +how did Sukhotin get the protocols? An unknown friend had +brought them to him. They were given to him by an unknown +lady who had received them from an unknown but energetic +participant in the Basle Congress. Is this credible? Well, +then, there is another version of the origin of the protocols—but +that is for the German readers. The Russian government +sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the Congress +himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was +carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local +masonic organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, +and gave the protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who +worked all night and copied the protocols.</p> + +<p>“In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to +have been brought to Russia in French. According to the German +version, the protocols were copied, consequently they were +in German, but the most important thing is that the protocols +are not protocols at all, but a monograph—which could be called +‘the dream of a member of the Black Hundreds.’”</p></div> + +<p>A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor +of the “protocols” as follows:</p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>“In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have +been studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor +Troitzky, Professor Kokovtsev, Kartashov, Bulgakov, Berdyayev—men +<a name="Page_15" id="Page_15"></a><span class="pagenum" title="15"></span>of profound intellect and a living conscience. In them +the counterfeit ravings of the ignorant monk (Nilus) evoked +but a smile of contempt. The low level of the circles in which +men like Nilus moved and worked is only too well known. It +was the world of police denunciations, divorce perjuries, monastic +servility and feigned, blasphemous piety. In order to +attract attention, Nilus’s ‘Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion’ +had to emigrate from Russia. And the further away they went, +the better they fared.”</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16"></a><span class="pagenum" title="16"></span><a name="CHAPTER_TWO" id="CHAPTER_TWO"></a>CHAPTER TWO</h2> + +<h3>THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS WERE FABRICATED</h3> + +<h4>Essence of “Protocols” Was German Fiction of “Sir John Retcliffe”—Who +Was “Retcliffe”?—His Infamous Record—His +Bloodcurdling Story—The Meeting in the Cemetery—An +Avowed Myth—Meeting Every Hundred Years Attended by +“Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel”—The “Son +of the Accursed” Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes.</h4> + + +<p>The query now naturally arises, what is the origin of +these much heralded “Protocols” which were published +in Russia by Sergius Nilus in 1905, and a copy of which, +it is triumphantly announced, is now in the British +Museum?</p> + +<p>The anti-Jewish propagandists everywhere content +themselves with the “history” of the origin of the “Protocols” +as given by the “Russian mystic” Sergius Nilus. +But fortunately “murder will out,” and the criminals who +perpetrated the stupendous forgery for the purpose of +slandering the Jews have left behind clues that enable +one to visualize the very process that they pursued in +the perpetration of their crime.</p> + +<p>In 1866-1870 there appeared in Berlin a series of novels +entitled “Biarritz—Rome” purporting to have been written +by “Sir John Retcliffe,” the pseudonym of Herman +Goedsche, a German novelist with an unsavory past. To +conceal his identity and to convey the impression that +the antisemitism with which his writings abounded +emanated from English sources, he selected “Sir John +Retcliffe” as his pen-name.</p> + +<p>According to <em>Meyer’s Konversations Lexikon</em> (Sixth +<a name="Page_17" id="Page_17"></a><span class="pagenum" title="17"></span>edition, 1904, Volume VIII, page 77), Herman Goedsche +was born in February, 1815, in Trachenberg, Silesia, and +died on November 8, 1878, at Warmbrunn. He was employed +in the postal service, but as he was implicated in +the Waldeck forgery case, he left the service in 1849, and +devoted himself to literary work. Under the name of +“Armin” he published a number of works of fiction, but +he was best known under the name of “Sir John Retcliffe,” +having published a series of sensational novels +describing the Crimean war, “Sebastopol,” “Rena-Sahib,” +“Villafranca,” “Puebla,” “Biarritz,” in 1866. A new edition +of these works appeared in Berlin in 1903-4.</p> + +<p><em>Brockhaus’ Konversations Lexikon</em> (supplement volume +XVII, 1904) refers to Goedsche, the novelist, known +under the name of “Sir John Retcliffe” (formerly +“Armin”), as having played an infamous role in the +Waldeck forgery case. He was compelled to leave the +postal service, and later became a member of the staff of +the <em>Preussische Kreutz Zeitung</em>.</p> + +<p>The chapter of the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which on +even a cursory reading will be found to contain the very +essence of the Nilus Protocols was published as a separate +booklet in a Russian translation in 1872, avowedly +as a work of fiction. I have found a copy of this little +volume in the Russian Department of the Library of +Congress, Washington, D. C.</p> + +<p>An examination of this chapter, entitled “The Jewish +Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives +of the Twelve Tribes of Israel,” will disclose the fact +that every substantive statement contained in the Protocols +and elaborated in them is to be found in the Goedsche-Retcliffe +novelette.</p> + +<p>We are thus supplied with an early draft of the so-called +Protocols, which have now been given worldwide +<a name="Page_18" id="Page_18"></a><span class="pagenum" title="18"></span>publicity by anti-Jewish propagandists, and which were +first introduced to the world in the form of a clumsy +piece of blood-curdling fiction of the dime-novel variety.</p> + +<p>In substantiation of this statement I now present a +translation of this chapter of the Russian version of this +novel found in the Library of Congress in Washington, +published in St. Petersburg nearly fifty years ago.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19"></a><span class="pagenum" title="19"></span> +<img src="images/il019.png" width="368" height="521" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of title page of the fantastic story published in +Russia in 1872, containing the first draft of the protocols in +the form of fiction.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">ЕВРЕЙСКОЕ КЛАДБИЩЕ ВЪ ПРАГѢ</p> + +<p class="center">и</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>СОВѢТЪ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕЙ</strong></p> + +<p class="center">ДВѢНАДЦАТИ КОЛѢНЪ ИЗРАИЛЕВЫХЪ.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="center">С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ.<br /> +ТИПОГРАФІЯ ТОВАРИЩЕСТВА «ОБЩЕСТВЕННАЯ ПОЛЬЗА»,<br /> +по мойкѣ, у круглаго рынка, № 5.<br /> +1872.<br /> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">EVREJSKOE KLADBISHHE V PRAGE</p> + +<p class="center">i</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>SOVET PREDSTAVITELEJ</strong></p> + +<p class="center">DVENADCATI KOLEN IZRAILEVYH.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="center">S.-PETERBURG. +TIPOGRAFIJA TOVARISHHESTVA «OBSHHESTVENNAJA POL'ZA»,</p> + +<p class="center">po mojke, u kruglago rynka, Nº 5.</p> + +<p class="center">1872.</p> +</div> + +<p class="center"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20"></a><span class="pagenum" title="20"></span><em>Translation of Title Page</em></p> + +<p class="center"> +THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE<br /> +And<br /> +THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES<br /> +Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel<br /> +<br /> +ST. PETERSBURG<br /> +Printed by the Association “Obschestvenaya Polza”<br /> +On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5<br /> +1872<br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21"></a><span class="pagenum" title="21"></span> +<img src="images/il021.png" width="385" height="400" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of the Foreword to the story published in 1872, +showing that the author regarded it as a “legendary story,” +colored by the author’s “fantastic imagination.”</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"><h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">ПРЕДИСЛОВІЕ.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> +<p>Описаніе еврейскаго кладбища въ Прагѣ и легендарный +разсказъ о собраніи представителей двѣнадцати +израильскихъ колѣнъ заимствованы изъ историко-политическаго +романа Сера Джона Редклиффа «До Седана», +помѣщеннаго въ журналѣ, издаваемомъ Николаемъ +Степановичемъ Львовымъ.</p> + +<p>Содержаніе легенды не есть вымыселъ одного Редклиффа; +скорѣе Редклиффъ, съ свойственнымъ ему фантастическимъ +вooбраженіемъ, собралъ части въ одно +цѣлое и окрасилъ все поэтическими красками, поражающими, +можетъ быть, чрезмѣрною яркостію, но +тѣмъ не менѣе представляющими интересъ.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="fl">Дозволено цензурою, С.-Петербургъ, 17-го мая 1872 года.</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"><h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">PREDISLOVIE.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p>Opisanie evrejskago kladbishha v Prage i legendarnyj +razskaz o sobranii predstavitelej dvenadcati +izrail'skih kolen zaimstvovany iz istoriko-politicheskago +romana Sera Dzhona Redkliffa «Do Sedana», +pomeshhennago v zhurnale, izdavaemom Nikolaem +Stepanovichem L'vovym.</p> + +<p>Soderzhanie legendy ne est' vymysel odnogo Redkliffa; +skoree Redkliff, s svojstvennym emu fantasticheskim +voobrazheniem, sobral chasti v odno +celoe i okrasil vse poeticheskimi kraskami, porazhajushhimi, +mozhet byt', chrezmernoju jarkostiju, no +tem ne menee predstavljajushhimi interes.</p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="fl">Dozvoleno cenzuroju, S.-Peterburg, 17-go maja 1872 goda.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a><span class="pagenum" title="22"></span><em>(Translation)</em></h3> + +<h3>FOREWORD</h3> + + +<p>“The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and +the legendary story of the meeting of the representatives +of the twelve tribes of Israel are borrowed from the +historico-political novel by Sir John Radcliff, ‘To Sedan,’ +published in the magazine edited by Nicholas Stepanovitch +Lvoff.</p> + +<p>“The contents of the legend are not the invention of +Radcliff himself; rather Radcliff, with his characteristic +fantastic imagination, collected various parts into one +whole and painted all with poetic colors, which strike one +perhaps by their excessive gaudiness, but which are nevertheless +interesting.”</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Passed by the Censor, St. Petersburg, May 17, 1872</p> + +<p>This product of “Radcliff’s fantastic imagination,” the +work of one experienced in the perpetration of forgeries, +will now be permitted to tell its own story. It requires +no commentary. It clearly foreshadows the protocols, +with all its accompaniment of melodrama, not even omitting +the Devil, himself.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE</p> + +<p>and</p> + +<p>The Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel</p> + + +<p>“The Jewish quarter of Prague represents a remarkable +labyrinth of crooked and narrow streets; it is situated in the +outskirts of Prague which witnessed numerous bloody episodes +of Bohemian and German history. The dwellers of the dirty +and dilapidated houses of this quarter are engaged in petty +<a name="Page_23" id="Page_23"></a><span class="pagenum" title="23"></span>trading and profiteering in their own as well as in other parts +of the city. Prague is the only city in Germany where the +Jews live entirely isolated from the nation whose name they +have taken in order to avail themselves of the privileges of the +city population and to exploit it for their own purposes. The +Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the rag-fair in Vienna +and the Temple in Paris. In these places deals amounting to +thousands are transacted daily.</p> + +<p>“If you take a few steps along this dirty, foul market-place, +you will suddenly come upon an old, high, decayed wall which +surrounds a space of from two to three acres. Elder-trees and +other wild shrubbery wind around this wall. Old Jewish houses +are crowded all along near this wall, threatened with destruction +at any moment. The strange circle formed by this wall +has an unwelcome, puzzling appearance.</p> + +<p>“This is the city of the dead—the renowned Prague cemetery.</p> + +<p>“In this abode of rest may be seen the spirit of the nation, +whose bones found shelter here after long wandering,—here is +stamped all its history, full of sufferings, struggles and resistance.</p> + +<p>“It seems as though at any moment these tombs, overgrown +with shrubbery, are ready to open, these stones growing for +thousands of years are ready to raise themselves, and to let out +into the world the restless wanderer with a pack upon his +shoulder, with a staff in his hand, in order to go again to +strange peoples,—to cheat and combat them and to seek a new +Canaan—his dominion! The Jewish cemetery in Prague is the +very oldest cemetery known. It was closed by order of the +government a hundred years ago. For foreigners it is a +historical landmark; for the Jews it is a sacred place. The +impression of this deserted spot is intensified by its surroundings. +Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, overgrown +with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost +entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed.</p> + +<p>“During the inspection, the watchman will tell the visitor the +history of the death of Rabbi Ben Manasseh, the great conqueror +of death, and Rabbi Loewe, the most learned Rabbi of the 17th +century; he will speak of Simon the Just and of the Polish +princess Anna Shmiless. He will then lead the visitor to the +monument of Anna Kohn on which can be read the mysterious +figure 606, which shows that the Jews, more than twelve hundred +<a name="Page_24" id="Page_24"></a><span class="pagenum" title="24"></span>years ago, had buried their dead here, in the legendary times of +Lyubush and her daughters.</p> + +<p>“If we are not to believe this figure, we must nevertheless +agree with the opinion of the Jews that this is the oldest settlement +and the first Jewish community in Europe.</p> + +<p>“Silently the Jewish guide and the curious foreigner go by +one place where under an old lilac bush a heap of stone stands +out, and when the foreigner asks, ‘What is this?’ the guide +gives an evasive answer——</p> + +<p>“‘Beth Chaim—the house of life.’ Thus is the cemetery +called. Yes, indeed, this place of rest is a house of life, for +from here is given the mysterious impulse which makes the +exiles masters of the earth and tyrants of nations,—the impulse +which directs the golden calf to the chosen tribe.</p> + +<p>“The Jewish town has assumed a holiday aspect. The stands +of the petty retailers have disappeared; Jewish boys and girls +were strolling about in their holiday attire. The houses and +windows were adorned with green branches. On the old benches +sat men, talking seriously; in the alleys youths were chatting. +From time to time men and women in their best Sabbath clothes +were going to the synagogue, carrying prayer books in their +hands; while poor Christian women whom need had forced +to work in this quarter were running with keys and dishes in +order to prepare for the feast.</p> + +<p>“It was the last day of the Feast of Booths, the day of +Assembly, and dusk was gathering over the narrow streets, +while the Christian part of the city was still brightly illumined +by the last rays of the setting sun. Two men (the older wore +a black silk mantle, with long earlocks, which showed that he +was a Polish Jew; the other was middle aged, in modern clothes, +with diamond studs in his shirt and a heavy golden chain on +his vest) walked along the narrow streets, without paying any +attention to the crowd.</p> + +<p>“The younger seemed to be the guide. Having come with his +companion to the little house where the watchman of the cemetery +lived, he knocked at the closed door, through a crevice of +which the bright light of wax candles was seen, showing the +watchman’s holiday mood. It was a good summer—a large +number of foreigners had visited the cemetery and were generous +in their gifts.</p> + +<p>“In the doorway appeared the thin face of the watchman, +<a name="Page_25" id="Page_25"></a><span class="pagenum" title="25"></span>whose short-sighted eyes began to look fixedly into the darkness.</p> + +<p>“‘Come out into the street, Joel, somebody wants to talk to +you!’</p> + +<p>“‘O, God of Justice,’ said the watchman with amazement, as +he came out of the door,—‘One of the trustees! What is your +pleasure to command me?’</p> + +<p>“‘This Rabbi desires to make a brief prayer in the cemetery; +he is leaving to-morrow morning by train.’</p> + +<p>“‘In the cemetery? This evening? But you know yourself, +Mr. Banker, that I am forbidden to open the gates after sunset, +and to-night is also the holy Sabbath.’</p> + +<p>“‘First of all, there is no need for you to shout here about my +calling,’ replied the banker, displeased. ‘Every Jewish rag-picker +will know that banker Rosenberg was here to see you. As for +the permit to open the gates, I myself, as a trustee, authorize +you to do it. I will wait here until he has completed his prayer. +The company in your house must not know what we are doing +here. Arrange it so that the curious crowd will not rush in +there.’</p> + +<p>“The watchman disappeared in the house, but soon returned +with a bunch of keys and opened the gates of the cemetery. +He took a lantern along and was about to light it.</p> + +<p>“‘Don’t!’ said the Rabbi in a low voice. ‘I don’t need any +light. Lock the gates from the inside!’</p> + +<p>“‘But, Mr. von Rosenberg——’</p> + +<p>“‘Lock it, I say!’</p> + +<p>“The watchman obeyed.</p> + +<p>“‘Now lead me to the grave of the holy Rabbi Simeon-ben-Yehudah!’</p> + +<p>“‘Hold on to my coat, esteemed sir,’ said the watchman. ‘It +is dark and you may stumble over the old graves.’</p> + +<p>“‘I can see better at night than in the daytime, my son!’ +<a name="typo1" id="typo1"></a>answered the learned Polish Jew.</p> + +<p>“‘Here is the grave!’</p> + +<p>“The old Rabbi reverently leaned over the tombstone. The +watchman heard him pronounce a prayer in Jewish. He used +so many words of ancient Hebrew, or some other words of a +language he did not understand, that he knew only a few separate +expressions, although he himself had been in the past a +teacher at the Bohemian community.</p> + +<p>“Having completed his prayer, the stranger turned to the +watchman of the cemetery:</p> + +<p><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26"></a><span class="pagenum" title="26"></span>“‘When you accepted the position from your predecessor, did +he not give you certain instructions?’</p> + +<p>“‘Me?’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, you! It was so from the day the first person was buried +in this place.’</p> + +<p>“‘Well, and what if he did give such instructions,—how +does that concern you? This the first time I am asked about +this matter since I am employed here.’</p> + +<p>“‘Because this happens once in a hundred years, and human +life rarely lasts as long as that.’</p> + +<p>“‘I see that you know about it, Rabbi,’ said the frightened +watchman. ‘But I can obey you only if you mention the word +which was given to me by my predecessor, because I took a +sacred oath on the Bible.’</p> + +<p>“The Polish Jew bent down and slowly pronounced a word of +seven syllables.</p> + +<p>“The watchman bowed respectfully.</p> + +<p>“‘You are the Rabbi!’ he said. ‘All will be done as you command!’</p> + +<p>“‘You will send away the friends who are feasting in your +house before the clock strikes eleven. At the first stroke you +will open the gates of the cemetery, and at the last stroke you +will get into your house, lock the doors and windows, lie down +in your bed and turn into a corpse together with the members +of your household,—into a corpse that sees and hears nothing.’</p> + +<p>“‘I will neither look nor listen.’</p> + +<p>“‘The angel of death will leave your soul in your body and +will force you to wander about among the graves to the end +of time if you do not carry out my orders correctly. Now go, +and remember that by virtue of your position you are the +servant of the great Jerusalem synagogue. I need not tell you +that you should not say anything to that vain, worldly man who +brought me here.’</p> + +<p>“Both returned to the gates, near which the banker was still +on guard.</p> + +<p>“‘Well,’ he said, ‘your desire is fulfilled, Rabbi, and you may +inform my friend in Warsaw that Rosenberg and Son are +always ready to do a favor to a guest recommended by such a +personage. Now let us go home; my wife is waiting for us.’</p> + +<p>“‘Let us go, my son,’ replied the Rabbi. ‘But relieve me of +worldly pleasures. I shall spend the night in prayer!’</p> + +<p><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27"></a><span class="pagenum" title="27"></span>“The banker shrugged his shoulders and gave the watchman +a gold coin.</p> + +<p>“‘Joel,’ he said in a low voice, ‘the other trustees of the community +must not know about this violation of the rule.’</p> + +<p>“The watchman nodded, and the companion again disappeared +in the dark streets, which had already become deserted, while +in the houses people talked merrily and the sounds of holiday +festivities were heard.</p> + +<p>“How poor, dirty and dark these little houses looked from +outside! But it was quite different within! In the rear rooms +of many of these houses the bright light of numerous wax candles +was reflected in the splendid high mirrors, in expensive dishes +and precious rugs. Girls and women, who in the morning perhaps +walked with trays in their hands, now were seated at the +tables in heavy silk gowns with golden chains and bracelets; +their jewels and diamonds were glittering.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“The clock in the town-hall tower struck ten. In the chapel, +near the statue of St. Nepomucenus, upon a stone bench, sat a +large-sized man, with the pale serious face of Germanic type. +Every physiognomist, looking at him, would have said that this +man had devoted his youth to serious scientific work and that he +had spent many sleepless nights over books.</p> + +<p>“The clock had just struck ten when upon the bridge appeared +a man in a light summer coat, of about the same age as the +young scientist. His face was pale, of waxen color, without the +slightest natural red in his cheeks; his particularly prominent +nose indicated his Jewish extraction; his forehead was high and +large, his head was strongly developed. He walked straight +over to the man who was waiting and who quickly arose.</p> + +<p>“‘Good evening. I see you have received my letter. Have +you it with you?’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, I know it by heart, I have read it so many times. “My +friend,” it is written there, “I have promised to give you the +key to the Caballah, if I ever find the opportunity to do so. +Although I am not always in the habit of fulfilling my vows, I +am ready to fulfil this one, if you will wait for me in the +evening of October 8, in Prague, on the old Moldau bridge, +under the statue of Nepomucenus.” Then follows your name.’</p> + +<p><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28"></a><span class="pagenum" title="28"></span>“‘Yes, that is correct. Have you not yet given up your desire?’</p> + +<p>“‘Less than ever before! You would render science an invaluable +service.’</p> + +<p>“‘Listen, doctor, bend down a little over the rail; that of +which we speak must not be heard even by the waves of the +Moldau, if we wish to remain alive.’</p> + +<p>“The young scientist looked in astonishment at his comrade, +but did as he desired.</p> + +<p>“‘Three years ago, in Rome, when I promised to acquaint +you with the mysteries of the Caballah, I did it more for the +sake of boasting of a power and authority which, in reality, I +did not possess. Although I had studied for some time the +traditions of my nation, rather out of curiosity than because of +the love of knowledge, I knew very well that I could hardly +penetrate the corridor of those mysteries which I am still regarding +as the sophistry and roguishness of exalted minds, invented +for the purpose of holding fools in fear and subordination. +But several accidental discoveries, made by me since +then, have changed my views and have aroused in me a sense +of curiosity.</p> + +<p>“‘You know, notwithstanding our brief acquaintance, that I +am not the type of man who would abandon a clue or a conceived +plan. What has caused me to make you my companion +in satisfying my curiosity—that does not concern you. It is +enough that now we have an opportunity to satisfy our mutual +desire, and all depends on whether you will agree to accept +the conditions upon which I can make you a partner in my +investigation.’</p> + +<p>“‘If these are not against honor and conscience.’</p> + +<p>“‘In this respect you have nothing to risk, you are rather +risking something else—your life. Do you feel that you are +capable of facing a serious danger?’</p> + +<p>“‘For the sake of science, yes!’</p> + +<p>“‘Very well, in that case I must tell you that I will lead you +to a place which we will not leave alive, if our presence is +discovered. The slightest suspicion that we were uninvited +witnesses of the secret will bring upon us persecution which will +kill us sooner or later.’</p> + +<p>“‘You are whetting my curiosity, signor!’</p> + +<p>“‘That is all I wanted to tell you. The other thing—you +<a name="Page_29" id="Page_29"></a><span class="pagenum" title="29"></span>know that I am a Jew by birth. Although the Jews have driven +me from their midst and cursed me according to their custom +and traditions because I adopted Christianity,—still I have my +own reasons for stipulating a condition—your word of honor +that you will be silent about all you will see and hear, until I +authorize you to speak.’</p> + +<p>“‘I swear by my honor.’</p> + +<p>“‘Very well. You will recall in your investigations of the +Caballah that in the mysterious books mention is made of a +meeting of the heads or chosen ones of the nation,—a meeting +which takes place from time to time?’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, in the Yezire it is said very definitely, and if I understood +correctly, such meetings take place every hundred years.’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes. The last meeting took place in 1760 and you recall +that shortly afterward the movement of Judaism started. It is +now 1787 years since the destruction of Jerusalem and this year is +designated for a meeting of the Cabalistic Sanhedrin. This is +the day of the meeting; the place is this city. I want to be +present at this meeting in spite of the danger and am ready to +take you along with me.’</p> + +<p>“‘But will it not be dishonest to listen, will it not be an unlawful +interference with other people’s secrets?’</p> + +<p>“‘Per Bacco! as we Italians say; with such hesitations you +must abandon once for all the idea of fulfilling your desire. Or +do you think that the people who guard the secret of the +Caballah will bring it to you on a tray? As far as I am concerned, +I shall discover the secret, at any cost!’</p> + +<p>“After reflecting a few minutes, the scientist came to a decision.</p> + +<p>“‘I shall go with you, come what may!’</p> + +<p>“‘Very well. Now we have agreed. Let us go,—there is no +time to lose.’”</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“The tower clock of the town-hall struck eleven. At the first +stroke a key clicked in the lock of the cemetery gates. Then +followed profound silence which indicated that the cemetery +was open. The lights in the Jewish houses were gradually +dying out, and at the same time the sounds of the merry feasting +also subsided.</p> + +<p>“Mysterious silence reigned in that terrible place.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30"></a><span class="pagenum" title="30"></span>“The gates creaked softly; the rustling of long coats was +heard, touching the stones and shrubbery; finally a vague white +figure appeared and slipped by like a shadow along the pathways.</p> + +<p>“This figure knelt before one of the tombstones; three times +it touched the stone with its forehead and softly whispered a +prayer.</p> + +<p>“Along the path leading from the gates came an old man, +bent, limping, sighing and coughing. He came over to the +ancient tombstone, and lowered himself on his knees near the +white figure that had entered before him, and he, too, whispered +a prayer.</p> + +<p>“Then heavy footsteps were heard, and a tall, impressive figure +appeared on the road, clad in a white mantle, and he, too, +fell down on his knees, as though unwillingly, in front of the +tombstone.</p> + +<p>“Thirteen times this was repeated. Thirteen old men came +over to the tombstone. The doctor counted them, but he could +not understand whether they were alive or dead. A shiver +crept down his back, his heart began to beat faster from fright. +He involuntarily recalled the terrible legend of the Day of +Atonement in the tenth month, Tishri, in the synagogue of +Posen when, during the prayer of Kol Nidrei, the congregation +kept growing larger and larger; unknown people, pushing one +another, wrapped in prayer shawls, came in, one hundred after +another, until the terrified Rabbi lifted his hand as if +to curse and exclaimed: ‘He who has flesh in his cheeks, +let him throw off the prayer shawl!’ Hundreds remained covered, +and when the prayer shawls were torn away from them, +all saw the skulls of the dead who had come out of the graves +to celebrate the Day of Atonement with the rest of the congregation.</p> + +<p>“As there, it seemed to him that the prayer shawls had fallen +off the heads of the praying old men, and a row of dead skulls +appeared. At that moment the clock struck twelve. A sharp +metallic sound rang out on the grave, after which a blue flame +appeared and illumined the thirteen kneeling figures.</p> + +<p>“‘I greet you, Roshe beth Aboth (heads) of the twelve tribes +of Israel,’ announced a dull voice.</p> + +<p>“‘We greet you, son of the accursed.’</p> + +<p>“‘A hundred years have already passed. Where have the +Nesiyim (princes of the tribes) come from?’</p> + +<p><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31"></a><span class="pagenum" title="31"></span>“‘From the lands where the nation of Adonai has been scattered +by the orders of our forefathers.’</p> + +<p>“‘Are you ready to fulfil the promise during the coming century?’</p> + +<p>“‘We are ready!’</p> + +<p>“‘Then say, whose representatives are you, and where do you +come from? Tribe of Judah?’</p> + +<p>“‘From Amsterdam,’ replied a strong, loud voice.</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Benjamin?’</p> + +<p>“‘Toledo!’ came the dull answer.</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Levi?’</p> + +<p>“‘Worms!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Manasseh?’</p> + +<p>“‘Budapest!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Gad?’</p> + +<p>“‘Cracow!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Simeon?’</p> + +<p>“‘Rome!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Zebulun?’</p> + +<p>“‘Paris!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Dan?’</p> + +<p>“‘<a name="typo2" id="typo2"></a>Constantinople!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Asher?’</p> + +<p>“‘London!’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Issachar?’</p> + +<p>“The answer came in a faint voice and could not be heard distinctly.</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Naphtali?’</p> + +<p>“‘Prague!’</p> + +<p>“‘And I am the representative of the unfortunate and exiles,’ +said the man who asked the questions in a dull voice. ‘I am myself +wandering about all over the world in order that I may unite +you for the sake of the cause of redemption which has been +promised to the seed of Abraham and which was taken from +them by the sons of him who was crucified! Who is here of +the house of Aaron, let him rise, scrutinize the heads of the +tribes and gather the council.’</p> + +<p>“The man who was the first to arrive rose and then seated +himself upon the tombstone. One by one the others came over +to him and whispered in his ear a seven-syllabled word, and +each time he nodded in approval. After that all returned to +<a name="Page_32" id="Page_32"></a><span class="pagenum" title="32"></span>their former places. ‘Brethren,’ said the Levite, ‘our fathers +formed a union which compels all those chosen as representatives +of the tribes to gather every hundred years at the grave of the +great teacher of Caballah whose doctrines give the chosen ones +power on earth and supremacy over all the descendants of +Ishmael. Eighteen hundred years the struggle has been conducted +by the nation of Israel for supremacy which was promised +to Abraham and which was taken away from us by the +Cross. Trampled under foot by our enemies, under the terror +of death and all kinds of humiliation and violence, the nation +of Israel, nevertheless, has not abandoned this struggle, and as +they are scattered all over the earth, the whole earth must belong +to them! Our learned men are conducting this struggle for +hundreds of years; the nation is gradually rising from its fall; +its power is growing and spreading. To us belongs the earthly +god, which was made for us with such sorrow by Aaron in the +desert ... the Golden Calf which the backsliders are worshipping!’</p> + +<p>“‘We hear!’ they whispered on all sides.</p> + +<p>“‘When all the gold on earth will be ours, the power will go +over to us. Then will be fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. +Gold is the ruler of the earth. Gold is power, reward, pleasure +... all that human beings fear and desire. This is the mystery +of the Caballa ... the teachings concerning the spirit +which rules the world, and about the future! Eighteen centuries +we have belonged to our enemies. The future belongs to us. For +the fifth time in the course of the thousand-year-old struggle to +which we have consecrated ourselves, those who know of the existence +of the secret union have gathered here to take counsel +as to the means which are afforded us by the sins of our +enemies, and each time, for five hundreds years, a new Sanhedrim, +ordered the fiercest struggle. But, excepting Russia, not a +single century has been crowned with such success as this one. +Therefore we may think that the time for which we are striving +is near, and we may say, “The Future is ours!”’</p> + +<p>“‘Yes, if persecutions against the Jews will not take place in +the meantime!’ pointed out one of the men with a bitter smile.</p> + +<p>“‘The dark days of such a danger are passed. The success +of so-called civilization among the Christian nations may serve +as the best protection for our endeavors. Before listening to the +<a name="Page_33" id="Page_33"></a><span class="pagenum" title="33"></span>individual opinions, let us examine the material means, the pure +capital possessed by the nation of Israel....’</p> + +<p>“‘But against the three and a half million Jews with their +money there are 265 million enemies in Europe, or rather 500 +million fists,’ remarked one of these present.</p> + +<p>“‘The head will protect us against the fists, as in the past. +Labor is the slave of speculation, and violence is the slave of +wisdom. Who will deny that cunning is the distinctive trait +of our nation?</p> + +<p>“<a name="typo3" id="typo3"></a>‘Our nation is ostentatious and greedy, arrogant and pleasure-loving.</p> + +<p>“‘Where there is light there is also shadow. It is not in vain +that Adonai our God gave his chosen people the tenacity of a +snake, the cunning of a fox, the look of a falcon, the memory +of a dog, the diligence of an ant, and the sociability of a beaver. +We were in captivity on the rivers of Babylon, and have become +powerful! Our temple was destroyed, but we have built a +thousand new temples! For eighteen hundreds years we were +slaves; now we have grown head and shoulders above all other +nations.’</p> + +<p>“All the twelve pronounced the concluding words—</p> + +<p>“‘Brethren,’ said the Levite, ‘the time has come when, in accordance +with the laws of the founder of our union, we must +determine ways and means by which the Jews shall attain their +goal as soon as possible; our experience of a hundred years will +help us in this. We who know must direct and guide the masses +which are blind. We, the builders, will combine the dead stones +into a pillar which must reach the sky.’</p> + +<p>“‘The Tower of Babel was destroyed by the hand of Him +whose name I dare not pronounce,’ said the sceptic.</p> + +<p>“‘Our structure rests upon the foundation of the promise +made to Abraham. It is your turn to speak, representative of +the tribe of Reuben! By what means will the Jewish nation +achieve power and supremacy over all other nations on earth?’</p> + +<p>“A shrill, unpleasant voice then spoke:</p> + +<p>“‘All the princes and the lands of Europe are at present in +debt. The stock exchange regulates these debts. But such things +are done only by movable capital; therefore all the movable +capital must go over to the hands of the Jews. The foundation +for this is already laid, judging from what we have heard here. +If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the +<a name="Page_34" id="Page_34"></a><span class="pagenum" title="34"></span>same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary +to facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the +more. Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, +mortgages on railroads, taxes, mines, regalia and domains. Furthermore, +the stock exchange is a means for the transfer of the +belongings of the small people to the hands of the capitalists, +by drawing them into stock gambling. Transactions in securities +are a splendid invention of our nation. Although the stock exchange +members cheat one another sometimes, it is the outsider +who always pays in the end.’</p> + +<p>“The voice which resounded on the Paris Bourse became +silent.</p> + +<p>“‘Do the <em>zekenim</em> agree with the opinion of our brother?’ +asked the Levite.</p> + +<p>“A whisper of approbation was the answer to this question.</p> + +<p>“‘Representative of the tribe of Simeon, it is your turn now!’</p> + +<p>“A serious, dull voice resounded after this order. Each word +was pronounced slowly and thoughtfully:</p> + +<p>“‘Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession +of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and +influence. Therefore, the Jews should secure the possibility of +acquiring real estate. It will not be hard to accomplish this, +if we acquire movable capital. Therefore it is necessary to +facilitate loans on land. Under the fear of scandal we will +destroy land wealth and minimize its importance. Ownership +of land should be mobilized, if lands are sold as other commodities. +The more we help in the breaking up of estates, +the more easily will they fall into our hands. Under the pretext +of relieving the poor classes, it is necessary to levy all taxes of +states and communities on the land owners. When the land is in +our hands, the labor of the Christian workers and farmers will +give us a tenfold income.’</p> + +<p>“He who did not belong to any tribe laughed sneeringly.</p> + +<p>“‘This advice is good, but not new. Ask in Paris and in +Vienna, who owns the houses there?’</p> + +<p>“A whisper of approbation was heard again.</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Judah, your turn!’</p> + +<p>“The voice that resounded was marked with conviction and +reminded one of the sound of the Thaller.</p> + +<p>“‘Industry, the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish +nation, must be paralyzed even as agriculture. The manufacturer +<a name="Page_35" id="Page_35"></a><span class="pagenum" title="35"></span>should be no better than an ordinary worker. The means +to accomplish this may be the unlimited freedom of trade. The +manufacturer will take the place of the artisan as he does not +have to work, only to speculate. The children of Israel can adapt +themselves to all branches of work. Their capital and dexterity +will be the substitute for right. Transforming the artisans into +our factory workers, we will be in a position to direct the masses +for our political purposes. Whoever resists this system will be +destroyed by competition. The senseless and ungrateful masses +will not support the artisans in this struggle, if commodities +are reduced in price to a certain extent.</p> + +<p>“A noisy approbation of the new Sanhedrin showed that the +soundness of this advice had long been appreciated and even applied +in practice.</p> + +<p>“‘Now it is my turn,’ said the representative of Levi—‘I speak +in the name of the tribe of Aaron. The natural enemy of the +Jews is the Christian church. Therefore we must try to humiliate +it, we must instill into it free-thinking, <a name="typo4_a"></a>scepticism, and +conflicts. Therefore we will, first of all, start a war on the clergy, +we will try to arouse suspicion against it and ridicule it. The +main pillar of the church is the school. Therefore we must +gain influence over the young. Under the guise of progress and +the equal rights of all religions, we will destroy the study of +religion in Christian schools. Then the Jews may become +teachers in all schools; then religion will be taught at home. +And as there is little time left for that, the spirit of religion +will gradually decline, and eventually it will be destroyed altogether. +Agitation for the appropriation of property belonging +to the churches and schools, the transfer of church property to +the state, or (what is the same) into the hands of the Jews, +will be our reward!’</p> + +<p>“Again approbation followed the words of the man who had +spoken. Nobody contradicted him and he announced:</p> + +<p>“‘Representative of the tribe of Isaachar, it is your turn!’</p> + +<p>“Now an old, trembling voice spoke:</p> + +<p>“‘Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. +The coarse military art is not for the sons of Israel. Not everyone +can be a Gideon! The army is for the defense of the throne +and the school of narrow patriotism. Not the sword, but reason +and money must rule. Therefore at every opportune instance, +it is necessary to help the downfall of the military class, to arouse +<a name="Page_36" id="Page_36"></a><span class="pagenum" title="36"></span>suspicion in the masses against it, and to incite animosity against +one another. It is enough for the soldiers to do police duty and +to protect the wealthy from those who have nothing.’</p> + +<p>“‘The Lion of Judah has spoken,’ said the stranger angrily. +‘David conquered Goliath. The nations will soon wear long +coats instead of military armour. A slap on the bourse will +be equivalent to a lost battle.’</p> + +<p>“It looked as though a storm was rising against this arrogant +sarcasm, but one word from the eldest restored them all to calm.</p> + +<p>“‘This is the son of Baal! He may say whatever he pleases. +But he will do whatever is decided by the council of the +tribes.’</p> + +<p>“‘The tribe of Zebulun may speak!’</p> + +<p>“A dull voice, like a storm in the distance, said as follows:</p> + +<p>“‘Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast +to what is old. But our interest demands that we participate, or, +rather, direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that +ours is a time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the +amelioration of the material condition of the needy classes. But +for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals. Capital +is in the hands of the Jews. Therefore they must outwardly +take part in the movement and try to divert it from social and +political reforms. The masses themselves are blind and foolish, +and permit the shouters to rule over them. Who shouts more +loudly and more shrewdly than the Jews? Therefore our nation +has been the first on the platform, in the press, and in all Christian +communities! The more communities and meetings, the more +dissatisfaction and idleness. From this it follows inevitably that +the people grow poorer, that they become subjected to those +who have money, leading to the enrichment of the latter. Besides, +every movement makes us richer, for the smaller people +are ruined and are contracting debts. The unstability of the +foundation increases our power and our influence. Therefore +the support of every kind of dissatisfaction, every revolution, +increases our capital and brings us nearer to our goal.’</p> + +<p>“This terrible speech was followed by prolonged silence. Every +member of this secret Sanhedrim seemed to be thinking of its +terrible meaning. The son of Baal again laughed hoarsely.</p> + +<p>“‘Are you afraid of blood? It isn’t yours.’</p> + +<p>“Then one member of the gathering expressed his approval, +and all others followed his example.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37"></a><span class="pagenum" title="37"></span>“‘Son of the tribe of Dan, your turn!’</p> + +<p>“The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order:</p> + +<p>“‘Every business in which there is speculation and profit must +be in our hands. That is our natural right. First of all, we +must get control of the traffic in liquor, butter, wool, and bread. +Then we shall have in our hands agriculture, farming. We can +prepare bread everywhere, and if dissatisfaction and want should +arise, we can easily throw the blame on the government. Petty +wares, which give a great deal of trouble and yield very little +profit, we can leave in the hands of the Christians. Let them +work hard and suffer as the chosen people suffered for several +centuries.’</p> + +<p>“This speech scarcely needed approval. The Levite called +on the next one.</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Naphtali?’</p> + +<p>“The following words rang out shrilly and with assurance:</p> + +<p>“‘All governmental positions should be open to us. Once +this principle is established, the cunning and flattery of +the Jewish employees will help them to penetrate even there, +and they will have real influence. I am speaking only of the +posts which bring honor, power, and pre-eminence. Positions +which require work and knowledge may remain for the Christians. +Therefore the Jews may neglect positions of secondary +importance. Justice is very important for us, the law is a +great step forward. This occupation is suited to the cunning +and skill of our people and gives us influence and power against +our natural enemies. Why can’t a Jew be Minister of Education +as he has already been more than once Minister of Finance?’</p> + +<p>“‘Remember the scaffold of Haman, the fate of Shushan and +Leopold!’ said a warning voice.</p> + +<p>“‘Why does the raven croak about the past which is so distant +and almost forgotten? More than one of our people has been a +Minister in France and respected by the King himself.’</p> + +<p>“Approval was expressed in a tone of satisfied pride; then +the orator continued:</p> + +<p>“‘Our people must be among the legislators of the governments. +The laws of the goyim against the children of Israel +must be abolished. We will maintain the laws of our Fathers. +We need no longer any laws that would protect us. No. We +must concern ourselves about laws that will give us privileges. +A mild law respecting bankruptcy, promulgated in the interests of +<a name="Page_38" id="Page_38"></a><span class="pagenum" title="38"></span>humanity, would be a golden mountain in our hands. First of +all we must see to it that the law regarding usury is abolished +in all countries under the pretext that money would thereby become +cheaper. Money is just such a commodity as others, and +the law should give us the right to regulate its price according +to our desire.’</p> + +<p>“‘Now is the turn for the tribe of Benjamin.’</p> + +<p>“‘What can I add to the counsel of such wise men? The +Jew should also make use of honors, and should be at the head +of all organizations that may give him honor without risks, and +he should engage in science and the arts which are more adapted +to the character of our people and which we can master more +easily. We can become good actors and philosophers, because +there is room for speculation in these domains. In the arts our +people will look after the reception and will burn incense to +ourselves. In science we will take up medicine and philosophy. +These afford opportunities for theories and speculation. A +physician penetrates the secrets of families and holds their lives +in his hands.’</p> + +<p>“‘Tribe of Asher, your turn!’</p> + +<p>“‘We must demand free marriage between Jews and Christians. +Israel will only be the gainer, even though there be +an admixture of impure blood to a certain degree. Our sons +and daughters will marry into renowned and powerful Christian +families. We give money and thus have influence. The Christian +relationship cannot have a bad influence on us, while we can +exert a strong influence over them. That is one thing. Another +thing is that we respect the Jewish woman and we enjoy +the forbidden pleasure with the women of our enemies. We have +money, and for money we can get everything. A Jew must +never make a daughter of his own race his mistress. If he +should desire to sin against the Seventh Commandment he +should content himself with Christian girls.’</p> + +<p>“‘What is the use of employing the beautiful girls of the +goyim in our stores if not for this?’ angrily interposed the representative +of the evil spirit. ‘Whoever will not want to satisfy +our desire will get no work, consequently no bread. Go to the +large cities and you will see that they are not waiting for your +wise men’s orders. Substitute a contract for sacrament in the +marriage of Christians and their wives and daughters will come +to you still more readily.’</p> + +<p><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39"></a><span class="pagenum" title="39"></span>“The terrible cynicism of these words, touching such a delicate +subject, must have produced a profound impression, especially +since the views of the ancient doctrines were so strict on +the topic of moral purity.</p> + +<p>“‘What does the law say?’ asked one of the twelve.</p> + +<p>“‘For adultery with a woman of our own people—death; for +seducing a girl—a fine, if she was not betrothed; if she was +betrothed—death. But the law is not so rigorous with regard +to one who lives with a slave—her body belongs to her master.’</p> + +<p>“‘Are the goyim better than our slaves?’</p> + +<p>“This explanation was followed by a whisper of approval.</p> + +<p>“‘The tribe of Manasseh may speak now!’</p> + +<p>“The last of the orators lifted his hand and during his speech +he raised and lowered it, as if desiring thus to make a stronger +impression by his words. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, +but he spoke skilfully and with assurance.</p> + +<p>“‘If gold is the first power in the world, the press is the +second. Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here +without the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when +the press is in our hands. Our people must direct the daily +publications. We are cunning, shrewd, and we possess money +which we know how to utilize for our purposes. We need great +political newspapers which mold public opinion—criticism, the +literature of the streets and the stage. In this way we will crowd +out the Christians step by step, and will dictate to the world +what it should believe in, what it should respect, and what it +should curse. We will repeat the sorrowful cry of Israel and +the complaints against the persecutions which are directed against +us. Then, even though each individual may be against us, the +masses, in their stupidity, will always be for us. With the press +in our hands, we can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into honesty. +We can shake all foundations, and separate families. We +can destroy faith in all that our enemies, until now, have believed. +We can ruin credits and arouse passions. We can declare war; +we can award fame or disgrace. We can uplift or ruin talent.</p> + +<p>“‘When Israel shall have gold and the press in his hands, +we will be able to ask: “On what day will it please you to <em>put +on Atarah</em> (crown) which belongs to us by right, to erect +Shisse (?) and extend the Shebet (sceptre) over the nations of +the earth?”’</p> + +<p>“A noisy greeting followed these words and the agitated men +<a name="Page_40" id="Page_40"></a><span class="pagenum" title="40"></span>who listened hardly understood for some time what was being +said at the meeting. At last the voice of the Levite called upon +all to be silent.</p> + +<p>“‘The Roshe-Bate-Aboth of the twelve tribes have uttered +words of wisdom. These words will be as pillars for the times +to come, if the son of him “who has not rest” will write these +words upon his memory and spread the seeds among the nation +of Israel in order that it may grow to be a mighty tree. They +will be the sword with which Israel will strike down his enemies. +Our posterity must share among themselves happiness, wealth +and power as it shared misfortune and dangers. They must +help one another. Wherever one of them places his foot, he +must drag another—his brother—along with him. If one +of them is unfortunate, others must help him, if he but lives +according to the law of our nation.</p> + +<p>“‘He who was in prison for ten years, may become a rich +man to whom princes will bow, if only our people will not forsake +him. Where everybody is against us, all will be for us. +After forty years of wandering in the desert, the hand of Jehovah +brought us to power in the land of Canaan; the same hand will +lead us after forty-five times forty years from our misfortune +and miseries to rule over lands which are forty-five times vaster +than Canaan. If Israel shall obey the decision here adopted by +the Sanhedrin of the Caballah, our grandchildren, coming a +hundred years hence to the grave of the founder of our union, +will announce to him that they have indeed become the princes +of the world and that the promise made to the nation of Israel +has been fulfilled. Other nations will become his slaves! Renew +our oath, sons of the golden calf, and go to all lands of the +world.’</p> + +<p>“The blue flame flared up brightly upon the grave of the +Rabbi; each of the thirteen threw upon the tomb a stone which +each carried under his cloak.</p> + +<p>“It seemed to the doctor that on the top of the tombstone, +in the bluish flame, there appeared a monstrous golden figure +of an animal.</p> + +<p>“Then he heard the same metallic sound that he had heard +when the light first appeared. Then impenetrable darkness covered +the cemetery.</p> + +<p>“The white figures again slipped by among the tombstones. +The gates creaked softly.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41"></a><span class="pagenum" title="41"></span>“The clock in the tower struck two past midnight. The last of +the mysterious visitors knocked at the window and a hoarse +voice said (as though the speaker knew that the watchman was +not asleep):</p> + +<p>“‘Close the house of life, watchman of those who are awaiting +the resurrection, and may your lips be sealed with the seal of +Solomon for a hundred years.’</p> + +<p>“The scholar still lay motionless; he was afraid to stir; all +he had heard had made upon him such a dreadful impression.</p> + +<p>“A noise near him indicated that his companion was rising.</p> + +<p>“‘To concentrate in their hands all the capital of the nations +of all lands; to secure possession of all the land, railroads, mines, +houses; to be at the head of all organizations, to occupy the +highest governmental posts, to paralyze commerce and industry +everywhere, to seize the press, to direct legislation, public opinion +and national movements—and all for the purpose of subjugating +all nations on earth to their power! No! I shall +struggle against the golden calf and shall smash it to pieces as +Moses smashed it in the desert.’</p> + +<p>“‘What we heard is a threat against all society. Here is +my hand, I will be your comrade in this struggle against the +power of gold.’</p> + +<p>“The Italian shook his head, but accepted the extended hand. +‘No,’ he said, ‘I want to act alone. There is a force which, if +properly directed, is not weaker than gold. That force is poverty +and her companion, labor. I shall call them out and lead +them into battle. Proud Israel! Beware! I shall put against +you the <em>Artel</em> (union) and Labor.’</p> + +<p>“‘And I,’ said the scholar, with animation, ‘all that is lofty +and noble,—science, idealism, faith—I shall lead these against +this materialism.’</p> + +<p>“His comrade laughed:</p> + +<p>“‘Your ideals will crumble as clay striking against metal. +Only the forces of poverty and hunger can be the fighters that +will defeat the golden calf. Our ways part here; you will go +one way, and I another. My promise is fulfilled; but remember +your vow—be silent as to all that you have heard and seen +here!’”</p></div> + +<hr /> + +<p><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42"></a><span class="pagenum" title="42"></span>This is the weird, fantastic “thriller” from which sprang +the Protocols. It is the first stage. According to this +story not only were there present at a secret meeting in +the Prague Cemetery, the representatives of the twelve +tribes of Israel, ten of which totally disappeared +nearly twenty-five centuries ago, but also the son of +“the accursed one,” the Devil, was there, making side-remarks +from time to time. His assigned function was +that of spreading the decisions of the Wise Men of Zion +among the Jews in order that they conquer the world.</p> + +<p>Dr. Herman L. Strack, professor of theology at the +University of Berlin, one of the foremost Christian +authorities on theological and religious literature, commenting +on this Goedsche-Retcliffe concoction, says that +this tale of the ghostly convocation in the Jewish cemetery +at Prague, discloses no real knowledge of Judaism, +that the reference to mixed marriages indicates gross +ignorance of actual Jewish thought, and that the Hebrew +words supposed to have been employed by the spokesmen +for the various tribes appear to have been borrowed from +a dictionary. He also points to Goedsche-Retcliffe’s story +and the “Rabbi’s Speech” about to be mentioned as the +sources of the Protocols.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43"></a><span class="pagenum" title="43"></span><a name="CHAPTER_THREE" id="CHAPTER_THREE"></a>CHAPTER THREE</h2> + +<h3>FICTION FORGED INTO “FACT”</h3> + +<h4>The Lie in its Second Stage—The Tale Becomes “Fact”—The +“Rabbi’s” Speech—Its Authenticity Vouched for by “Retcliffe”—An +Illuminating Footnote—A Dedication to the Russian +“Black Hundreds”—The Imaginary “Speech” Bears +Witness to Authenticity of “Protocols,” Themselves Based on +“Speech”—Three Stages of the Lie.</h4> + + +<p>A number of years after this Russian translation of +the Goedsche-Retcliffe story appeared, Sir John Retcliffe, +alias Goedsche, deeming it important for his purpose of +adding fuel to the flame of anti-semitism that had been +lighted in Germany, undertook to convert this work of +fiction, this offspring of his imagination, into a statement +of fact. This led him to adopt the simple device of consolidating +into one continuous speech the dialogue contained +in his shilling shocker, and putting the speech into +the mouth of an imaginary Rabbi in such a way as to +make it appear to be an address delivered by him to a +secret convocation of Jews. And the very man who had +invented the speeches set down in his work of fiction +twenty years before, now vouched for the authenticity of +the obviously fabricated speech which he attributed to a +Rabbi who had his birth in the contorted mind of this +notorious forger.</p> + +<p>A translation from the Russian of the apocryphal +“Rabbi’s Speech,” with the introductory note as published +in Russia by G. Butmi, in 1907, in a book entitled “The +Enemy of the Human Race,” dedicated by the author to +the Black Hundreds, will now be laid before the reader. +<a name="Page_44" id="Page_44"></a><span class="pagenum" title="44"></span>A comparison of it, with the scene in the cemetery, will +at once demonstrate the identity of authorship. Below +is a facsimile of the title page of this book, a copy of +which is in the Russian collection of the Library of +Congress, in Washington, D. C.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 278px;"> +<img src="images/il044.png" width="278" height="472" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p style="text-align: right; text-decoration: underline;"><em>Г. БУТМИ.</em></p> + +<p class="center" style="text-decoration: underline;">ОБЛИЧИТЕЛЬНЫЯ РѢЧИ.</p> + + +<p class="center">ВРАГИ</p> + +<p class="center">РОДА ЧЕЛОВѢЧЕСКАГО.</p> + +<p class="center" style="text-decoration: underline overline;">ПОСВЯЩАЕТСЯ СОЮЗУ РУССКАГО НАРОДА.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>Четвертое, обработанное и дополненное изданіе.</em></p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="center">С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ.</p> + +<p class="center">Тип. Училища Глухонѣмыхъ Гороховая, 18.</p> + +<p class="center">1907.</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"><h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p style="text-align: right; text-decoration: underline;"><em>G. BUTMI.</em></p> + +<p class="center" style="text-decoration: underline;">OBLICHITEL'NYJA RECHI.</p> + + +<p class="center">VRAGI</p> + +<p class="center">RODA CHELOVECHESKAGO.</p> + +<p class="center" style="text-decoration: underline overline;">POSVJASHHAETSJA SOJUZU RUSSKAGO NARODA.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>Chetvertoe, obrabotannoe i dopolnennoe izdanie.</em></p> + +<hr style='width: 20%;' /> + +<p class="center">S.-PETERBURG.</p> + +<p class="center">Tip. Uchilishha Gluhonemyh Gorohovaja, 18.</p> + +<p class="center">1907.</p> +</div> + +<p><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45"></a><span class="pagenum" title="45"></span>THE RABBI’S SPEECH</p> + +<p>To the Jewish People.<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">*</a></p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1" class="fnlabel">*</a> NOTE. (Toward the end of the last century there appeared a book +in London by Retcliffe entitled “A Review of Political and Historical +Events During the Past Ten Years.” This work was translated into +French. The French periodical press, without waiting for the complete +translation of the book, reproduced certain parts of it because +they were of special interest. Thus the French newspapers and magazines +published translations from the English of an intensely interesting +speech, most edifying for Russia (from the Hebrew), delivered by one +of the Rabbis, THE AUTHENTICITY OF WHICH SPEECH IS +VOUCHED FOR BY THE ABOVE-MENTIONED AUTHOR. This inimitable +gem must in the eyes of Russians assume all the more importance +since it is brought out by that “highly civilized” humane +and practical country, England, which has given protection to the +Russian Jews against the unsuccessfully invented persecutions on the +part of the Russian government and people. This monstrous document +was sent at the time in printed form, in the French language, to the +editorial office of the Odessa newspaper “Novorosisk Telegraph” for +those who might want to examine the accuracy of the translation published +in No. 4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, 1891, and reprinted +in No. 21 of the Petersburg newspaper “Znamya,” dated January +22, 1904. THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SANHEDRIN +OF 1869.)</p> + +<p>[Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics +were omitted in the Butmi version, but are given in the +French publication “Le Péril Judéo Maçonnique—I. Les +Protocols des Sages de Zion,” by Jouin, Paris, 1920.]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, +without fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master +Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowledge +is imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the +power over the whole world and authority over all the descendants +of Israel....</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel +is being waged with the power which had been promised +to Abraham but which had been snatched away from +him by the <em>Cross</em>. Trampled under foot, humiliated by +his enemies, ceaselessly under threats of death, of persecution, +of rapine and violence of every sort, Israel has +not succumbed; and if he is dispersed over the whole +world it is because the whole world should belong to +him.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our +learned men have been fighting against the Cross with courage +<a name="Page_46" id="Page_46"></a><span class="pagenum" title="46"></span>and persistence which nothing can break. Our people is rising +gradually and, with each day, its forces are growing. <em>It is to +us that this God of the day belongs, which was erected by Aaron +in the wilderness, this golden calf, this universal deity of the +epoch</em>.</p> + +<p>“When we become, at last, the sole possessors of all the gold +<a name="typo4" id="typo4"></a>to be found on earth, the true power will practically be transferred +to our hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be +fulfilled. <em>Gold—is the greatest power on earth; it is might, reward, +the instrument of every authority, it is all man, both +fears and desires. This is the sole mystery, the most profound +science of that spirit with the aid of which the entire world is +ruled</em>. This is what the future holds in store. Eighteen centuries +have belonged to our enemies; this century and the following +must belong to us, the People of Israel, and will be +ours, without fail. Here, for the tenth time during a thousand +years of cruel and incessant struggle with our enemies, have +assembled at this cemetery; at the grave of the great Master, +Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, the elect of each +of the tribes of the Israelite people, in order to discuss and +agree upon, the means of making use, in the interests of +our cause, of all the tremendous mistakes and errors, which +our enemies—the Christians—have not ceased to commit. Every +time the new Sanhedrin (assembly) proclaimed and preached +merciless warfare against our enemies, but not once during the +past centuries did our forefathers succeed in concentrating in +our hands such an enormous quantity of gold [<em>and consequently +of power</em>] as the nineteenth century has given us. We +are therefore able, without any senseless illusions, to flatter ourselves +with the hope of attaining our goal before long, and we +can look forward with assurance into the very eyes of the +future.</p> + +<p>“Persecutions and insults,—these sombre and tortuous times, +which the people of Israel bore with heroic patience,—have fortunately +come to an end, owing to the progress of civilization +among the Christians, and this progress is the best shield under +which we can hide and scheme, in order that we may cover +quickly and decisively the last leg of that distance which divides +us from our supreme aim. Let us cast a cursory glance at the +<a name="Page_47" id="Page_47"></a><span class="pagenum" title="47"></span>economic situation of Europe and analyze the resources which +fell to the Israelites from the beginning of the present century, +owing to the concentration in their hands of the tremendous +<a name="typo5" id="typo5"></a>capital which is in their possession at the present time. It turns +out that in Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, +Rome, Naples, etc. [<em>and in all lands—the Rothschilds</em>], that +everywhere, the Israelites are the masters of the financial situation, +being as they are possessors of many billions, not to mention +localities of the second and third class where all the financial +funds are in their hands and not mentioning that, without their +direct influence, no financial operation, no work of any importance, +could be carried out anywhere at any time. At present, +all the emperors, kings and ruling princes are burdened +with tremendous debts incurred in order to be able to maintain +numerous standing armies [<em>to sustain their tottering thrones</em>]. +The Bourse quotes and regulates these moneys, and we are the +full masters of the Bourse in all the centres of the globe. The +problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent +the means of contracting these loans and thus to become the +sole managers of all valuables, after which the exploitation of +all their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial +plants, as well as of all other (real property) including duties +and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital +lent by us to the various States.</p> + +<p>“Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a +country’s wealth. The possession of large plots of land will +pave for us even a broader way to honors and will strengthen +our influence (over the highest officials of the country). From +this follows, that our efforts will be directed towards inducing +our brethren in Israel to make large agricultural purchases. We +must, therefore, do our utmost to break up large estates into +small parcels, in order to be able to purchase them in the easiest +and quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help the working +classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners with +taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus +gradually be transferred into our hands, the whole labor of the +Christian proletariat will become for us a new source of tremendous +profits. <em>Since the Christian Church is one of our most +dangerous enemies, we must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, +and in order to accomplish this, it is necessary to use +all our efforts to implant in the Christian intellectual class ideas +<a name="Page_48" id="Page_48"></a><span class="pagenum" title="48"></span>of atheism, scepticism, dissension and to call forth religious +disputes among the newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom</em>.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“Logically, we must begin by depreciating the ministers +of this religion. Let us declare open war on them, +let us provoke suspicions on their devotion, on their +private conduct, and by ridicule and persiflage we shall +be right in the consideration attached to the state and +the costume of the priest.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Every war, every revolution, every political and religious upheaval +brings nearer the moment when we shall attain the great +end for which we have been striving so long. Commerce and +speculation—these branches, most plentiful in their fruits,—must +never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“... and once these branches have become identified +with us, we shall, through the flattery and perspicacity +of our executives, know how to penetrate to the prime +source of true influence and power. It is understood +that we are concerned only with those pursuits that entail +honors, power or privileges, for all those that require +knowledge, labor or disagreeable conditions, these can and +should be left to the Christians. The magistrature is an +institution of prime importance for us. The legal profession +develops most the faculty of civilization and +initiates one furthest in the affairs of our natural enemies, +the Christians, and it is through it that we can +subject them to our mercy. Why should not the Jews +become Ministers of Instruction when they have so often +been Ministers of Finance? The Jews must also aspire +to the rank of legislators with the object of abrogating +the laws made by the Goim, faithless sinners, against +the sons of Israel, the true believers, in their invariable +attachment to the holy laws of Abraham.</p> + +<p>“Moreover, on this point, our plan is nearing the most +complete realization, for progress has nearly everywhere +recognized and accorded to us the same civic rights as +to Christians, but that which it is of importance to obtain, +that which must be the object of our ceaseless +efforts, is a law less severe on bankruptcy. We shall +make of it a gold mine more rich than were ever the +mines of California.</p></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49"></a><span class="pagenum" title="49"></span>“With this object in view the people of Israel must direct +its ambition towards those high offices of authority which have +the power to distribute honors and esteem. The most assured +way of attaining such offices is to have weight and importance in +the various industrial enterprises, financial and commercial operations, +and to be on guard for all pitfalls and temptations +which may lead to the prosecution of the sons of Israel in the +country’s courts.</p> + +<p>“Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must +be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing +traits of its natural gifts. We must not remain passive to anything +that may aid us in gaining a place of honor in society; +philosophy, medicine, law, political economy—in other words, all +branches of science, art, literature—represent a wide field where +even our smallest successes, developing our abilities, will be of +great benefit to our cause.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“These vocations are inseparable from speculation. +Thus the production of a musical composition, even +though it be very mediocre, will furnish to our co-religionists +a plausible reason for elevating on a pedestal +and surrounding with a halo the Jew who will be the +author of it. As for the sciences, medicine and philosophy, +they must equally be a part of our intellectual +domain.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“<em>To the physician are usually confided the most intimate secrets +of the family and he, therefore, holds in his hands the health +and life of our ancient enemies—the Christians.</em> We are obliged +to encourage matrimonial unions between Israelites and Christians, +for the people of Israel, risking no loss whatsoever from +such contact, will only gain from such unions.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“... The introduction of a certain quantity of impure +blood into our God-chosen race will not corrupt it. +Our daughters will furnish us with these marriages alliances +with Christian families that possess influence and +power. In exchange for the money that we give, it is +just that we obtain influence on everything that surrounds +us.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Our relationship with the Christians will not make us deviate +from the path we have always been following; on the contrary, +with a certain degree of artfulness and cunning, this relationship +will gradually make us full masters of their destinies. <em>It is +<a name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></a><span class="pagenum" title="50"></span>desirable, that the Israelites refrain from keeping concubines +of our holy faith and rather select Christian girls for the part.</em> +The substitution of the simple formality of a contract before +some civil power for the church ceremony is of the greatest +importance to us, because on this condition Christian women +will overflow our camp.—If gold is the first power on this earth, +then the second power is undoubtedly the press. But of what +significance is the latter without the former? Since we cannot +realize all the above-stated aims without the assistance of the +press, <em>it is absolutely necessary that the management of all the +newspapers and magazines of all the countries, be in our hands. +The possession of gold, of the press and of sufficient means for +the satisfaction of certain qualities of its soul, will make us +masters of public opinion and will subjugate to us the masses.</em></p> + +<p>“Following this method on every step of our way with a persistence +which is one of our highest qualities, we will push the +Christians aside and reduce their influence to zero. We will +dictate to the world what it should believe, what it must +revere or despise. It is possible that persons will be found who +will arise against us; arming themselves, they will hurl insults +and curses at us; but the docile, ignorant masses will harken to +us and will take our part. <em>Once we become absolute masters +of the press, we will easily be able to refashion the ideas of +honor, of virtue, of faithfulness—and to deal the first blow to +the family-conception which is considered to this day as the +most sacred institution and which must be reduced to a state of +decay. We shall then be able to uproot the belief in that which +our enemies, the Christians, shall have worshipped until that +time and instead of that, having brought up the army in a +spirit of infatuation with the various passions, we shall openly +declare war upon everything that the gentiles are at present +revering and worshipping.</em></p> + +<p>“May all this be understood and noted, and let every child of +Israel become imbued with its true principles. Then our might +will grow like a gigantic tree the branches of which will bear +fruits, known as riches, pleasure, power.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“... as a compensation for that hideous condition +which for long centuries has been the unique lot of the +people of Israel.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“When one of us makes a step forward let the next one +follow him. If his foot slips let his co-religionists hasten to +<a name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></a><span class="pagenum" title="51"></span>support him. If an Israelite is trapped by the court of the +country in which he resides, his brethren in faith should use +all their efforts to get him out of trouble or to help him otherwise, +but on the condition that the Israelite in question acted +according to the laws which Israel observes strictly and guards +for so many centuries, and the precepts of our religion.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>“Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious +ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have bequeathed +to us.</p></div> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and +protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a country, +especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of the +workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards +possession and rule over the movements of public opinion.</p> + +<p>“The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their +leaders to yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them +easy prey for us and a double weapon for our popularity and +credit. With the aid of oratory, our speakers will be able to +make people believe our artificial enthusiasm which Christians +usually attain through the medium of genuine sentiment.</p> + +<p>“It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat +and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting +in this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, whenever +we shall need them. We will use them as weapons for upheavals +and revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move +our cause forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with +a quick pace, nearer our goal—to reign over the entire world, +as it was promised by our Father Abraham.”</p></div> + +<p><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52"></a><span class="pagenum" title="52"></span>[<em>For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, +out of many that might be selected, are taken from the +Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which were afterwards elaborated +and presented as facts.</em>]</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>FIRST STAGE OF THE LIE—THE NOVELETTE</p> + +<p>If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the +same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary to +facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the more. +Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, mortgages on +railroads, taxes, mines, regalias (?) and domains. (Page 32.)</p> + +<p>Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession of +every country. This in itself gives power, respect and influence. +Therefore the Jews should secure the possibility of acquiring real +estate. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate the loans on land. The +more we will help the breaking up of estates, the more easily they +will fall into our hands. (Page 33.)</p> + +<p>Industry the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish nation +must be paralyzed even as agriculture. (Page 34.)</p> + +<p>The natural enemy of the Jews is the Christian Church. Therefore +we must try to humiliate it, we must <a name="typo10" id="typo10"></a>instil into it free-thinking, scepticism, +and conflicts. Therefore we will first of all start a war on the +clergy, we will try to arouse suspicion against it and humiliate it.</p> + +<p>Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force.... Not +the sword, but reason and money must rule. (Page 35.)</p> + +<p>Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to the +old. But our interests demand that we participate, or, rather, direct +the movements of nations. It is indisputable that ours is a time of +many reforms, whose main purpose is the amelioration of the material +condition of the needy classes. But for this the propertied classes +must sacrifice their capital. Capital is in the hands of the Jews. +Therefore, they must outwardly take part in the movement and try to +divert it from social and political reforms. The masses themselves +are blind and foolish and permit the shouters to rule over them.... +The instability of the foundation increases our power and our +influence. Therefore the support of every kind of revolution increases +our capital and brings us nearer to our goal. (Pages 36-37.)</p> + +<p>Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without the +aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press will be +in our hands. Our people must direct the daily publications.... We +need great political newspapers which will mold public opinion—criticism, +the literature of the street and the stage. In this way we will +crowd out the Christians step by step, and will dictate to the world +what it should believe in, what it should respect and what it should +curse. We will repeat the sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints +against the persecutions which are directed against us.... With the +press in our hands we can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into +honesty. We can shake all foundations and separate families. We can +destroy faith in all that our enemies believed until now. We can ruin +credits and arouse passions. We can declare war; we can give fame or +disgrace. We can uplift or ruin talent. (Page 43.)</p></div> + +<p><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53"></a><span class="pagenum" title="53"></span>[<em>The following are parallel extracts from the imaginary +Rabbi’s speech vouched for by the author of the novelette +as fact a number of years later.</em>]</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>SECOND STAGE OF THE LIE—“THE RABBI’S SPEECH”</p> + +<p>When we become at last the sole possessors of all the gold to be found +on earth, the power will practically be transferred to our hands, and +the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. Gold—is the greatest +power on earth, it is might, reward, the instrument of every authority, +it is all man, both fears and desires.... The problem before us now +is to facilitate even to a greater extent the means of contracting these +loans and thus to become the sole managers of all the valuables, after +which the exploitation of all their railroads, mines, forests, large +factories and industrial plants, as well as of all other real property, +including duties and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for +the capital lent to us by the various states.</p> + +<p>Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a country’s +wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave for us even a +broader way to honors and will strengthen our influence over the +highest officials of the country. From this follows, that our efforts will +be directed towards inducing our brethren in Israel to make large +agricultural purchases. We must, therefore, do our utmost to break up +large estates into small parcels, in order to be able to purchase them +in the easiest and quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help +the working classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners +with taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus +gradually be transferred in our hands, the whole labor of the Christian +proletariat will become for us a new source of tremendous profits.</p> + +<p>Commerce and speculation—these branches, most plentiful in their +fruits,—must never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites,—with +this object in view the people of Israel must direct its +ambition towards those high offices of authority which have the power +to distribute honors and esteem.</p> + +<p>Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous enemies, we +must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in order to accomplish +this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to implant in the +Christian intellectual class ideas of Atheism, scepticism, dissension +and to call forth religious disputes among the newly-formed groups +and sects of Christendom.</p> + +<p>It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and +protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a country, +especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of the workingman; +but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards possession +and rule over the movements of public opinion.</p> + +<p>The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to fall +for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey for us +and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid of +oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our artificial +enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through genuine sentiment....</p> + +<p>Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be able +to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of faithfulness—and to deal +the first blow to the family-conception which is considered to this day +as the most sacred institution and which must be reduced to a state +of decay. We shall then be able to uproot the belief in that which our +enemies, the Christians, shall have worshipped until that time and +instead of that, having brought up the army in a spirit of infatuation +with the various passions, we shall openly declare war upon everything +which the Gentiles are at present revering and worshipping....</p></div> + +<p><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54"></a><span class="pagenum" title="54"></span>[<em>The following are extracts from the new version of +the “protocols” introduced by Nilus in 1905, showing the +different stages of the forgery.</em>]</p> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>THIRD STAGE OF THE LIE—“THE PROTOCOLS”<a name="FNanchor_2" id="FNanchor_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">*</a></p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_2" id="Footnote_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2" class="fnlabel">*</a> These extracts are taken from “The Protocols of the Wise Men of +Zion,” published by the Beckwith Company, New York, 1920.</p> + +<p>All the wheels of the government mechanism are driven by the motor +which is in our hands, and that motor is—gold. (Prot. 5.)</p> + +<p>To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin +Gentile society, industry must be placed upon a speculative basis. +The result will be that all products extracted from industry from the +soil will not remain in their hands but will pass through speculation +into our possession. (Prot. 4.)</p> + +<p>The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed away.... +But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they are +independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all costs we +must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain this is +to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These measures +will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional subordination. +(Prot. 6.)</p> + +<p>See second quotation above.</p> + +<p>At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry +vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to act +as a counterpoise to industry.... It is necessary for industry to +deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through speculation, +transfer all the money of the world into our hands, thereby throwing +the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. (Prot. 6.)</p> + +<p>It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from +the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and +replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material +desires. (Prot. 4.)</p> + +<p>We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy +and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper +us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily. (Prot. 17.)</p> + +<p>It is indispensible for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars +should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an +economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of our superiority +in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will place +both sides under the control of our international agents with their +million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. (Prot. 2.)</p> + +<p>We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes +who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting +that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to whom +we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles +of the universal solidarity of our social masonry.... (Prot. 3.)</p> + +<p>We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all +movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will +tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in +disgust. (Prot. 5.)</p> + +<p>We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of +Protocol 12.</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55"></a><span class="pagenum" title="55"></span><a name="CHAPTER_FOUR" id="CHAPTER_FOUR"></a>CHAPTER FOUR</h2> + +<h3>THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY</h3> + +<h4>Nilus on the Protocols—Only “the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia” +Can Save the World—Passages from Nilus Omitted by +Translators—On Tolstoy—On the Emancipation of Women—On +the “Sanhedrin” and “its Faithful Ally, England.”</h4> + + +<p>In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus’s book appeared, +printed on government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, +containing a new and elaborated version of the protocols.</p> + +<p>The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his +1905 edition, a copy of which is in the British Museum, +have deliberately omitted numerous passages from his +prologue and epilogue. These passages show clearly the +purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: “We may perhaps +be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal character +of the document presented. But if it were possible +to demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the +testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to +unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the +world conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their +hands, then the very ‘mystery of lawlessness’ would be +infringed upon, and it must remain intact until its incarnation +in the ‘son of destruction.’” Then he goes on +to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, +and that there is only one force that can save it, and that +is the “God-Anointed Tsar of Russia.” The omitted +portions of the Nilus book show distinctly that it is a +work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus +denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and +all movements leading toward progress.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56"></a><span class="pagenum" title="56"></span>The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, +realizing that these passages would disclose to intelligent +people the real motive of the Nilus protocols and +thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them in +the translations.</p> + +<p>Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious +Nilus book, which are his own utterances and do not +purport to constitute a part of the Protocols. They are +translated from a photographed copy of the volume in +the British Museum:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man +close to us, now deceased, a manuscript in which are described +with unusual precision and clearness the course and progress +of the universal fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world +to an inevitable catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us +about four years ago (in 1901) with the assurance that it was +an accurate copy—a translation of the original documents stolen +by a woman from one of the most powerful and sacred directors +of Freemasonry after one of the secret meetings of the ‘initiates’ +in France, the present nest of the Freemason’s sect. This manuscript +under the general title ‘Protocols of Meetings of the Wise +Men of Zion’ I now call to the attention of all who wish to +see or hear. These ‘Protocols’ at a first cursory glance might +seem to be what we are accustomed to call truisms; they are more +or less commonplaces although expressed with a boldness and +a hatred not altogether customary in commonplaces. A proud, +deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time secretly growing,—and +what is more frightful than all,—a religious rage boils between +the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the overfilled vessel +of violence and vengeance, already approaching complete triumph.</p> + +<p>“It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript +does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols +of a meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided +into parts which are not even always logically connected: the +impression remains that this is a fragment of something much +more significant, the beginning of which has been lost. The +origin of the manuscript, as given by us above, furnishes sufficient +explanation of this.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57"></a><span class="pagenum" title="57"></span>“We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal +character of the document presented. But if it were possible +to demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony +of trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil +the faces of those who are at the head of the world conspiracy +and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very +‘mystery of lawlessness’ would be infringed upon, and it must +remain intact until its incarnation in the ‘son of destruction.’ +In the complexity of the present criminally-earthly process <em>we +must not search for direct evidence</em>; we are forced to content +ourselves with indirect proof and of these it seems that the +attention of the sad Christian observer is fully satisfied.</p> + +<p>“The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole republican +era of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of +those elected to office has to this time ever done what he promised +to do, if the demands of his electors did not coincide with +the plans of the government of Zion.</p> + +<p>“What has become of unfortunate France!...</p> + +<p>“‘Let him who has ears, listen!’”</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times +some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, +and doctrines of devils;</p> + +<p>“‘Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared +with a hot iron;</p> + +<p>“‘Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from +meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving +of them which believe and know the truth.’</p> + +<p>“Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole +world?!”</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“In every age there have been many women ‘drowning in sin +and led on by various lusts’: the ebb and flow of this sin in +woman’s heart characterized whole epochs of particular human +defection but at no time of the seeming triumph of sin have +there been women ‘constantly studying’—this sign represents entirely +a universal inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic +of our epoch.</p> + +<p>“Who is ignorant of the so-called ‘woman question,’ the emancipation +of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up +so many families and which threatens an even greater disruption +in the future?!...</p> + +<p><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58"></a><span class="pagenum" title="58"></span>“For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons +her true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate +world revolution!”</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>“The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried +the roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a +different name it entered into a league with united England, +with whom, after having let it in behind the curtain of its +secret and having declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates +even to the present day, helping out England in her exploits +over the whole world with its capital and concessions, in which +respect the Sanhedrin was never penurious.</p> + +<p>“As to the question why England and no other European government +was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting +Sanhedrin, the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to +think that the cause is to be found in the isolated island position +of the sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship +between the English and the Jews.<a name="FNanchor_3" id="FNanchor_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">*</a></p> + +<p>“Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of +Masonic lies (the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved +for them also), possessing countless millions, in face of the +general fall of the Christian spirit among the European peoples, +in whom there was artificially spread and supported the cult of +the golden calf; having poisoned the idea of godliness and +spirituality in the heart of the peoples by ‘scientific’ theories, the +Sanhedrin—the priest of the golden idol created by it, has gained +control of the spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, +with the help of its gold, with the sold consciousness of those +standing at the helm of power, and with the help of its faithful +ally—England, it has corrupted and perverted all the political +foundations of Europe, and through them the well-being and +spiritual health of its population. The French revolution, glorified +by the Masonized historical science of ‘greatness’ and the +fall of the ‘great’ Napoleon have shown to the world the significance +and strength of the Sanhedrin. But the world did not +recognize the new manifestation of Satan: at that time the +words of truth of the Evangel and the apostolic foresight had +become alien to him.”</p></div> + + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_3" id="Footnote_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3" class="fnlabel">*</a> As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries to prove that +the English are the descendants of one of the scattered tribes of +Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course of contemporary science, +is not ashamed to produce whatever theories are advantageous +to them. According to certain tenuous evidences in the air it seems +that a new theory is being produced according to which the honor of +birth relationship with the God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to +America and ... Japan. AVIS A L’ANGLETERRE!...)</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59"></a><span class="pagenum" title="59"></span><a name="CHAPTER_FIVE" id="CHAPTER_FIVE"></a>CHAPTER FIVE</h2> + +<h3>FORGERS DISAGREE</h3> + +<h4>The Butmi Protocols—“Representatives of Zion” Not to be Confounded +with “Zionists”—Butmi Contradicts Nilus—Plan +for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.—The “Symbolic +Snake”—Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device—Every Jew +Familiar with Plot.</h4> + + +<p>In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has +been made, and which contains the “Rabbi’s Speech” +already considered, there is to be found still another version +of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred +writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the +Black Hundred organization. Appropriately enough it +was published by the Society of Deaf and Dumb, as will +be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the title page. +With exceeding <em>naïveté</em> Butmi published the forged speech +attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as +proof of the genuineness of the protocols, and side by +side with the fabricated speech appears the Butmi version +of the protocols which had undergone further +changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of “the +documents” by Serge Nilus.</p> + +<p>The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 +version read as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES +OF THE MAIN OFFICE OF ZION.</p> + +<p>“‘(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages +of Zion of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)’</p></div> + +<p><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60"></a><span class="pagenum" title="60"></span>Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, +dedicated to the Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as +Jewish documents. In his introduction the author says, +in part, as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“‘These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in +fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December, +1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories +again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be reinforced +by definite information as to the place, day, month, year, +where and when they were composed.</p> + +<p>“‘The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of +Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal +plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their authenticity, +and from several details he will suppose with great certainty +that the mentioned protocols were taken from the documents +of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, +which is joined mostly by Jews....</p> + +<p>“‘But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and +place where the protocols were composed might call forth in +the reader, who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of +Masonic doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.’”</p></div> + +<p>At the end of the “protocols” published in this edition +by Butmi, in 1907, there appears a note by the man who +declares that he had secured and translated the documents +from the French, on December 9, 1901, and in the +very first two lines of his note, he states that the representatives +of Zion mentioned in the documents are not +to be confounded with the representatives of the Zionist +movement. The Russian mystic Serge Nilus, in his later +editions, connected the documents with the Zionist Congress +in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, +Dr. Theodore Herzl.</p> + +<p>The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives +a version of “the political plan devised by the Wise Men +of Zion.” This translator, however, states that the “political +<a name="Page_61" id="Page_61"></a><span class="pagenum" title="61"></span>plan was conceived 929 years before the birth of +Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in +theory.”</p> + +<p>Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator’s +Note:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;"> +<img src="images/il061.png" width="385" height="203" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="fl">но если имъ не дать крови, они не спятъ, а борются...</p> + +<p><strong>Примѣчаніе переводчика.</strong></p> + +<p>Изложенные протоколы подписаны Сіонскими представителями +(не смѣшивайте съ представителями сіонистскаго движенія). Они +выхвачены изъ цѣлой книги протоколовъ, всего содержанія +которой не удалось переписать по краткости времени, даннаго +на прочтеніе ихъ переводчику этихъ протоколовъ. Къ нимъ +было приложено еще небольшое прибавленіе и планъ завоеванія +міpa Евреями мирнымъ путемъ. Эти протоколы и чертежъ добыты +изъ тайныхъ хранилищъ Сіонской Главной Канцеляціи, +нынѣ находящейся на французской территоріи.</p> + +<p>На упомянутомъ чертежѣ значился весь политическій планъ +Сіона по отношенію къ имѣющимъ быть пройденными этапамъ</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="fl">no esli im ne dat' krovi, oni ne spjat, a borjutsja...</p> + +<p><strong>Primechanie perevodchika.</strong></p> + +<p>Izlozhennye protokoly podpisany Sionskimi predstaviteljami +(ne smeshivajte s predstaviteljami sionistskago dvizhenija). Oni +vyhvacheny iz celoj knigi protokolov, vsego soderzhanija +kotoroj ne udalos' perepisat' po kratkosti vremeni, dannago +na prochtenie ih perevodchiku etih protokolov. K nim +bylo prilozheno eshhe nebol'shoe pribavlenie i plan zavoevanija +mira Evrejami mirnym putem. Eti protokoly i chertezh dobyty +iz tajnyh hranilishh Sionskoj Glavnoj Kanceljacii, +nyne nahodjashhejsja na francuzskoj territorii.</p> + +<p>Na upomjanutom chertezhe znachilsja ves' politicheskij plan +Siona po otnosheniju k imejushhim byt' projdennymi etapam</p> +</div> + + +<p><em>Translator’s Note.</em></p> + +<p>“The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of +Zion (<em>do not confound them with the representative of the +Zionist movement</em>). They were taken out of a whole book of +protocols, the entire contents of which it was impossible to copy +because of the short time allowed the translator for reading +these protocols. A small appendix was attached to them and +a plan of conquering the world by the Jews by peaceful means. +Those protocols and the Sketch were taken from the secret +depositories of the Main Office of Zion, now located on French +territory.</p> + +<p>“The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political +plan of Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through +by this movement and to the means of passing from one to +another. The aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years +before the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon +and the Judean Sages in theory; according to historical events, +it was elaborated and enlarged by their followers initiated in +this plan.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62"></a><span class="pagenum" title="62"></span>“These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for +Zion, with the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head +should be composed of the Jewish Government initiated in the +plans of the Wise Men (always masked even to their people), +and the body—the Jewish nation.</p> + +<p>“Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has +undermined or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, +according to their growth, in various continents, but particularly +in Europe, which he should do also in the future, following +exactly the outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road +travelled by it will close by the return of the head of the Snake +to Zion,—that is, until this snake will include in the sphere of +its circle all Europe, and through Europe the whole world, +utilizing all forces conquered by economic means in order to +draw the other continents into the sphere of its cycle....</p> + +<p>“For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has +made it possible to carry out everything that was desirable in +the interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities +commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the +majority of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that +the decisions of that majority became the determining factor in +questions of national life. The crowd always in need, or the +greedy intelligent class, short-sighted liberals and other blind +people have also rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the +republican is the most desirable and convenient form of government +for Zion because it gives full sway for the activities of the +armies of Zion—for anarchists of thought and action, called +socialists.</p> + +<p>“All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands +of the nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the +ocean of humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, +every member of which is familiarized with the plan of action +worked out in the course of centuries, from which he cannot +deviate. The politics of the goyim is the politics of accidental +circumstances, engineered by the Jews, and tends not towards +perfecting the affairs of the state, but towards struggle for the +sake of greed, or more often for the personal aggrandizement +of the administrators.</p> + +<p>“From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory +and the guidance of the world.</p> + +<p>“Translation from the French, December 9, 1901.”</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></a><span class="pagenum" title="63"></span><a name="CHAPTER_SIX" id="CHAPTER_SIX"></a>CHAPTER SIX</h2> + +<h3>THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES</h3> + +<h4>Russia in 1905—The Unsuccessful Revolution—The Reaction and +the Reactionaries—Lutostansky and His Work—The “Symbolic +Snake” According to Lutostansky—Who Plagiarized?—Lutostansky +on the English People—Are the English the +“Lost Tribes”?—How the Protocols Were “Doctored” by +Butmi—Conclusion.</h4> + + +<p>As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the +“literature” produced under the auspices of the Russian +Black Hundred organizations which sought to save the +Czar’s throne by pogroms, I examined a large number +of publications brought out in Russia during the +period when “the Russian Mystic,” Sergius Nilus, published +his pretended discovery, the “Protocols.” His book, +“The Great in the Small and anti-Christ,” appeared in +1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian +revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar’s +government. A new organization was formed for the support +of the Russian throne. It was known as “the Union +of the Russian People,”—“the Black Hundred,”—whose +program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia +adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of <a name="typo6" title="typo6"></a>vengeance—a +pogrom policy. The “Black Hundred” held the Jews responsible +for Russia’s defeat in the war and for the attempted +revolution,—and neither the Czar nor his loyal +organization of the “Black Hundred” ever forgave Count +Sergius Witte, who won for Russia at the Portsmouth +Peace Conference what she had lost on the battlefields, for +inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to Russia. +“The Black Hundreds” nicknamed Witte “the Jewish +Count of Portsmouth.” They attacked him and attempted +to assassinate him. They assassinated at that +time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and +Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobomania +that Sergius Nilus published his book introducing +the “Protocols” in Russia.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64"></a><span class="pagenum" title="64"></span> +<img src="images/il064.png" width="323" height="518" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of title page of Lutostansky’s book published +in 1907 containing anti-Jewish and anti-British +attacks.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center"><strong>ТАЛМУДЪ и ЕВРЕИ</strong></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center">Талмудъ есть религіозный катехизисъ.</p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">Евреи и дѣянія ихъ по ученію талмуда.</p> +<hr /> + +<p class="center">Компиляція изъ разныхъ талмудовъ и комментаріевъ члена-сотрудника<br /> +Императорскаго Православнаго Палестинскаго Общества</p> + +<p class="center">Дворянина отставного учителя класс. гимназіи.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>И. Лютостанскаго.</em></p> + +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">КНИГА ШЕСТАЯ.</p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p class="center">ИЗДАНІЕ ТРЕТЬЕ</p> + +<p class="center">исправленное и значительно дополненное.</p> + +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">ИЗДАТЕЛЬ</p> +<p class="center"><strong>А. Н. Першинъ.</strong></p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p class="center">С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ</p> + +<p class="center">Типографія Т-ва „СВѢТЪ“, Невскій, 136.</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>1907.</strong></p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center"><strong>TALMUD i EVREI</strong></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center">Talmud est' religioznyj katehizis.</p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">Evrei i dejanija ih po ucheniju talmuda.</p> +<hr /> + +<p class="center">Kompiljacija iz raznyh talmudov i kommentariev chlena-sotrudnika<br /> +Imperatorskago Pravoslavnago Palestinskago Obshhestva</p> + +<p class="center">Dvorjanina otstavnogo uchitelja klass. gimnazii.</p> + +<p class="center"><em>I. Ljutostanskago.</em></p> + +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">KNIGA SHESTAJA.</p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p class="center">IZDANIE TRET'E</p> + +<p class="center">ispravlennoe i znachitel'no dopolnennoe.</p> + +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center">IZDATEL'</p> +<p class="center"><strong>A. N. Pershin.</strong></p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p class="center">S.-PETERBURG</p> + +<p class="center">Tipografija T-va "SVET", Nevskij, 136.</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>1907.</strong></p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 339px;"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65"></a><span class="pagenum" title="65"></span> +<img src="images/il065.png" width="339" height="513" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile from Lutostansky’s book, “The Talmud +and the Jews,” published in 1907, showing the passage +used by Nilus in his book containing the protocols.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center"><strong>Объясненіе сіонскаго символическаго змѣя.</strong></p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p>Представленный политическій планъ +въ образѣ змія, очень древній, былъ +измышленъ іудейскими мудрецами въ +теоріи, по мѣрѣ же историческихъ событій +разрабатываемъ и дополняемъ просвѣщенными +въ этомъ послѣдователями. +Эти мудрецы рѣшили мирно завоевать +міръ для Cioнa, съ хитростью символическаго +змія. Глава змія изображаетъ +мудрецовъ сіонскихъ, а—туловище народъ +іудейскій. Проползая въ государственныя +нѣдра, змій этотъ подтачиваетъ или пожираетъ +всѣ не іудейскія государственныя +силы, по мѣрѣ ихъ роста на разныхъ +континентахъ, но особенно въ Европѣ, +что онъ долженъ дѣлать и въ будущемъ, +при точномъ слѣдованіи по предначертаніямъ +плана, до тѣхъ поръ, пока циклъ пройденнаго +имъ пути не сомкнется возвратомъ главы змія на +Сіонъ, то есть пока этотъ змій не заключитъ въ сферѣ +своего круга всю Европу, а черезъ нее весь міръ. Первымъ +дѣломъ стараются внести вездѣ безвѣріе и упадокъ нравственности, +пользуясь всѣми завоеванными экономическимъ</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center"><strong>Ob'jasnenie sionskago simvolicheskago zmeja.</strong></p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + + +<p>Predstavlennyj politicheskij plan +v obraze zmija, ochen' drevnij, byl +izmyshlen iudejskimi mudrecami v +teorii, po mere zhe istoricheskih sobytij +razrabatyvaem i dopolnjaem prosveshhennymi +v etom posledovateljami. +Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' +mir dlja Ciona, s hitrost'ju simvolicheskago +zmija. Glava zmija izobrazhaet +mudrecov sionskih, a—tulovishhe narod +iudejskij. Propolzaja v gosudarstvennyja +nedra, zmij etot podtachivaet ili pozhiraet +vse ne iudejskija gosudarstvennyja +sily, po mere ih rosta na raznyh +kontinentah, no osobenno v Evrope, +chto on dolzhen delat' i v budushhem, +pri tochnom sledovanii po prednachertanijam +plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago +im puti ne somknetsja vozvratom glavy zmija na +Sion, to est' poka etot zmij ne zakljuchit v sfere +svoego kruga vsju Evropu, a cherez nee ves' mir. Pervym +delom starajutsja vnesti vezde bezverie i upadok nravstvennosti, +pol'zujas' vsemi zavoevannymi ekonomicheskim</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66"></a><span class="pagenum" title="66"></span> +<img src="images/il066.png" width="344" height="527" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile from Lutostansky’s book, “The Talmud +and the Jews,” published in 1907, showing the passage +used by Nilus in his book containing the protocols.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">iv</p> + +<p class="fl">путемъ силами, чтобы завлечь въ сферу своего цикла остальные +континенты. Такъ какъ возвратъ главы змія могъ совершиться +лишь по сглаженнымъ развалинамъ государственной +мощи всѣхъ европейскихъ странъ, черезъ паденіе этой мощи, +отъ экономическаго разстройства и разоренія, всюду вносимаго +Сіономъ черезъ нравственный упадокъ. Растлѣніе, +вносимое съ помощью жидовокъ, выдающихъ себя за француженокъ +и итальянокъ, которыя даже фиктивно принимаютъ +и крещеніе, потомъ дѣлаются женами важныхъ лицъ, +на подобіе библейской Есфири, а при нихъ всегда сопутствуютъ +Мардохеи и производятъ свою политику въ +пользу жидовства. Эти-то мнимыя француженки и итальянки +являются самыми лучшими носительницами распутства +нравовъ съ мѣста на мѣсто. Эти женщины служатъ для +тѣхъ, которые, благодаря имъ, всегда нуждаются въ деньгахъ, +а потому охотно торгуютъ совѣстью, чтобы добыть +денегъ во что бы то ни стало. Деньги же только +ссужаются такимъ торговцамъ совѣсти, что быстро возвращаются +въ руки, ссужавшія ихъ, потому что съ помощью +тѣхъ же женщинъ растрачиваются скоро послѣ +ихъ полученія. Сіонскія сѣти разставлены на всѣхъ путяхъ +„гоевъ“ и циклъ змія подвигается въ XX столѣтіи +быстротой курьерскаго движенія къ намѣченной своей цѣли.</p> + +<p>Полное изложеніе всѣхъ таинственныхъ протоколовъ +Сіонскихъ жидовскихъ мудрецовъ, весь планъ завоевания +всего міра, будетъ помѣщено въ VII-мъ слѣдующемъ томѣ +„Талмудъ и евреи“. Къ дѣйствіямъ тайнаго сіонскаго змія +относится и клевета наглая, взведенная на уважаемаго +во всей Россіи о. протоіерея Іоанна Кронштадтскаго. Все +это дѣйствіе жидовъ, обнаглѣвшихъ въ послѣднее время +для подрыва православной религіи и поколебанія вѣры народовъ, +уваженія святости церкви и преданности Царю +и отечеству. Всѣ газеты, печать и книжная торговля находятся +уже въ жидовскихъ рукахъ, чего же имъ больше? +Вся Г. Дума была уже подъ жидовской командою. Теперь +остается только поколебать, а потомъ опрокинуть хри-</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration:</h5> +<p class="center">iv</p> + +<p class="fl">putem silami, chtoby zavlech' v sferu svoego cikla ostal'nye +kontinenty. Tak kak vozvrat glavy zmija mog sovershit'sja +lish' po sglazhennym razvalinam gosudarstvennoj +moshhi vseh evropejskih stran, cherez padenie etoj moshhi, +ot ekonomicheskago razstrojstva i razorenija, vsjudu vnosimago +Sionom cherez nravstvennyj upadok. Rastlenie, +vnosimoe s pomoshh'ju zhidovok, vydajushhih sebja za francuzhenok +i ital'janok, kotoryja dazhe fiktivno prinimajut +i kreshhenie, potom delajutsja zhenami vazhnyh lic, +na podobie biblejskoj Esfiri, a pri nih vsegda soputstvujut +Mardohei i proizvodjat svoju politiku v +pol'zu zhidovstva. Eti-to mnimyja francuzhenki i ital'janki +javljajutsja samymi luchshimi nositel'nicami rasputstva +nravov s mesta na mesto. Eti zhenshhiny sluzhat dlja +teh, kotorye, blagodarja im, vsegda nuzhdajutsja v den'gah, +a potomu ohotno torgujut sovest'ju, chtoby dobyt' +deneg vo chto by to ni stalo. Den'gi zhe tol'ko +ssuzhajutsja takim torgovcam sovesti, chto bystro vozvrashhajutsja +v ruki, ssuzhavshija ih, potomu chto s pomoshh'ju +teh zhe zhenshhin rastrachivajutsja skoro posle +ih poluchenija. Sionskija seti razstavleny na vseh putjah +"goev" i cikl zmija podvigaetsja v XX stoletii +bystrotoj kur'erskago dvizhenija k namechennoj svoej celi.</p> + +<p>Polnoe izlozhenie vseh tainstvennyh protokolov +Sionskih zhidovskih mudrecov, ves' plan zavoevanija +vsego mira, budet pomeshheno v VII-m sledujushhem tome +"Talmud i evrei". K dejstvijam tajnago sionskago zmija +otnositsja i kleveta naglaja, vzvedennaja na uvazhaemago +vo vsej Rossii o. protoiereja Ioanna Kronshtadtskago. Vse +eto dejstvie zhidov, obnaglevshih v poslednee vremja +dlja podryva pravoslavnoj religii i pokolebanija very narodov, +uvazhenija svjatosti cerkvi i predannosti Carju +i otechestvu. Vse gazety, pechat' i knizhnaja torgovlja nahodjatsja +uzhe v zhidovskih rukah, chego zhe im bol'she? +Vsja G. Duma byla uzhe pod zhidovskoj komandoju. Teper' +ostaetsja tol'ko pokolebat', a potom oprokinut' hri-</p> +</div> + +<p><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67"></a><span class="pagenum" title="67"></span>In my investigation I naturally examined the works +of the Russian arch anti-Semite, Ippolit Lutostansky, who +first accused the Jews of the most despicable crimes, and +then, in 1882, after the occurrence of the pogroms in the +south of Russia, wrote a volume retracting all his previous +anti-Jewish accusations, and declaring anti-Semitism to be +nothing but an outgrowth of ignorance and malice. Several +years later he resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and +became one of the most vicious vilifiers of the Jewish +people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair which was +staged by the Russian government for the purpose of +discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian governmental +anti-Jewish policy before the world. After the +collapse of the Beilis prosecution, which involved the +absurd charge of ritual murder, Lutostansky approached +several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to retract +his new charges against the Jews, provided they would +pay him a certain amount of money for his book. The +Jews declined to have anything to do with the charlatan +who had caused so much harm to the Jews of Russia by +his monstrous accusations. His works attracted special +attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and +supported by Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager +Empress of Russia.</p> + +<p>While examining one of his books entitled, “The Talmud +and the Jews,” published in 1907, in which he promised +the publication of “the Protocols of the Wise Men +of Zion” in his forthcoming volume, I came upon an +amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged +secret plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which +<a name="Page_68" id="Page_68"></a><span class="pagenum" title="68"></span>I find reproduced, word for word, with but a few phrases +changed, in the epilogue of “the Russian mystic,” Sergius +Nilus. Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize Lutostansky? Or +was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus? Or were they +one and the same person? At any rate, both served the +purposes of the “Black Hundreds” against the Jews, and +both employed the same weapons.</p> + +<p>Here is a translation of Lutostansky’s introduction:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From Lutostansky’s Introduction, 1907</p> + +<p>EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE</p> + +<p>“The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very +old and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the +course of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented +by their initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the +world peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. +The head of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the +body—the Judaean nation. Crawling into the bosoms of governments, +this snake undermines eats away all non-Judaean governmental +forces, as they grow on various continents, but especially +in Europe, which it is to do also in the future, carefully following +the outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled +by it is completed by the return of the head of the snake to +Zion,—that is until this snake will include within the sphere of +its circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the whole +world. First of all they are endeavoring to introduce everywhere +irreligion and moral decadence, utilizing all forces they have +won economically in order to drag the other continents into the +sphere of their cycle. As the return of the head of the snake +could be accomplished only over the razed ruins of the governmental +power of all European countries, through the collapse +of this power, through economic disorganization and ruin, introduced +by Zion everywhere by means of moral decadence. Corruption +is introduced with the aid of Jewesses under the guise +of French or Italian women, who even undergo fictitious baptism +for these purposes and then become the wives of prominent +men, like the biblical Esther, and they are always accompanied +by their Mordecais, and make their politics for the good of the +<a name="Page_69" id="Page_69"></a><span class="pagenum" title="69"></span>Jews. These so-called French and Italian women are the best +carriers of immorality from place to place. These women are +used for those who, because of them, are always in need of +money, and therefore willingly barter their conscience to secure +money at any cost. The money is reality only loaned to such +conscience-barterers, for it quickly comes back to the hands of +<a name="Page_70" id="Page_70"></a><span class="pagenum" title="70"></span>those loaned the money, as it is squandered with the aid of +these women soon after they receive it. The Zionist nets are +spread out on all the roads of the goyim (gentiles) and the +cycle of the snake is moving along in the Twentieth century with +the speed of an express train towards its goal.</p> + +<p>“The complete outline of all the secret protocols of the Zionist +Jewish sages, the entire plan of the conquest of the whole world, +will be included in the next (seventh) volume of ‘The Talmud +and the Jews.’”</p></div> + +<p>And this is a facsimile reproduction and translation of +Sergius Nilus’s epilogue taken from the copy of the +“Protocols” in the British Museum, from which the +American translation was made.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;"> +<img src="images/il069.png" width="285" height="457" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of page of Serge Nilus’s book +containing the protocols showing the same +passage as in Lutostansky’s book.</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription:</h5> +<p class="center">—395—</p> +<p class="fl">торыя въ Малой Азіи будутъ поддерживаемы французской +дипломатіей.</p> + +<p>Конечно, это требованіе льготы не касается католическихъ +учрежденій, изгоняемыхъ изъ Франціи нѣсколькими +послѣдними составами ея правительства, а доказываетъ лишь, +что Дрейфусаровская дипломатія выступаетъ за интересы +Сіона и открываетъ путь для колонизаціи французскими евреями +Малой Азіи.</p> + +<p>Сіонъ всегда завоевывалъ себѣ мѣста и вліяніе черезъ +свой рабочій скотъ съ человѣческими лицами, какъ называетъ +Талмудъ все не-еврейское человѣчество.</p> + +<p>По даннымъ тайнаго еврейскаго Сіонизма, Соломономъ и +другими Іудейскими мудрецами еще за 929 лѣтъ до Рождества +Христова былъ измышленъ въ теоріи политическій +планъ мирнаго завоеванія для Сіона вселенной. По мѣрѣ +развитія историческихъ событій, планъ этотъ былъ разрабатываемъ +и пополняемъ посвященными въ это дѣло послѣдователями<a name="FNanchor_1_4" id="FNanchor_1_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_4" class="fnanchor">1</a>.</p> + +<p>Эти мудрецы рѣшили мирно завоевать міръ для Сіона +хитростью Символическаго Змія, главу котораго должно было +составлять посвященное въ планы мудрецовъ правительство +евреевъ (всегда замаскированные даже отъ своего народа), +а туловище—народъ Іудейскій. Проникая въ нѣдра встрѣчаемыхъ +имъ на пути государствъ, Змій этотъ подтачивалъ +и пожиралъ (свергая ихъ) всѣ государственныя, не-еврейскія, +силы, по мѣрѣ ихъ роста. Это же долженъ онъ дѣлать +и въ будущемъ при точномъ слѣдованіи предначертаніямъ +плана, до тѣхъ поръ, пока циклъ пройденнаго имъ пути +не сомкнется возвратомъ Главы его на Сіонѣ и пока, такимъ +образомъ, Змій не заключитъ, не сосредоточитъ <span class="sp">въ +сферѣ своего круга</span> всей Европы, а черезъ нее и +остальной міръ, пользуясь всѣми силами—завоеваніемъ и +экономическимъ путемъ, чтобы подчинить своему вліянію, +вліянію своего цикла, и остальные контингенты. Возвратъ</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1_4" id="Footnote_1_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_4" class="fnlabel">1</a> Ап. Павелъ, какъ одинъ изъ наиболѣе даровитыхъ учениковъ фарисейской +школы, не могъ не быть посвященъ въ эту „тайну беззаконія, +находившуюся въ дѣйствіи“ и въ его время. Отсюда особая злоба +гоненія на него со стороны воинствующаго Израиля.</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">-395-</p> +<p class="fl">toryja v Maloj Azii budut podderzhivaemy francuzskoj +diplomatiej.</p> + +<p>Konechno, eto trebovanie l'goty ne kasaetsja katolicheskih +uchrezhdenij, izgonjaemyh iz Francii neskol'kimi +poslednimi sostavami eja pravitel'stva, a dokazyvaet lish', +chto Drejfusarovskaja diplomatija vystupaet za interesy +Siona i otkryvaet put' dlja kolonizacii francuzskimi evrejami +Maloj Azii.</p> + +<p>Sion vsegda zavoevyval sebe mesta i vlijanie cherez +svoj rabochij skot s chelovecheskimi licami, kak nazyvaet +Talmud vse ne-evrejskoe chelovechestvo.</p> + +<p>Po dannym tajnago evrejskago Sionizma, Solomonom i +drugimi Iudejskimi mudrecami eshhe za 929 let do Rozhdestva +Hristova byl izmyshlen v teorii politicheskij +plan mirnago zavoevanija dlja Siona vselennoj. Po mere +razvitija istoricheskih sobytij, plan etot byl razrabatyvaem +i popolnjaem posvjashhennymi v eto delo posledovateljami<a name="FNanchor_1_5" id="FNanchor_1_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_5" class="fnanchor">1</a>.</p> + +<p>Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' mir dlja Siona +hitrost'ju Simvolicheskago Zmija, glavu kotorago dolzhno bylo +sostavljat' posvjashhennoe v plany mudrecov pravitel'stvo +evreev (vsegda zamaskirovannye dazhe ot svoego naroda), +a tulovishhe—narod Iudejskij. Pronikaja v nedra vstrchaemyh +im na puti gosudarstv, Zmij etot podtachival +i pozhiral (svergaja ih) vse gosudarstvennyja, ne-evrejskija, +sily, po mere ih rosta. Eto zhe dolzhen on delat' +i v budushhem pri tochnom sledovanii prednachertanijam +plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago im puti +ne somknetsja vozvratom Glavy ego na Sione i poka, takim +obrazom, Zmij ne zakljuchit, ne sosredotochit <span class="sp">v +sfere svoego kruga</span> vsej Evropy, a cherez nee i +ostal'noj mir, pol'zujas' vsemi silami—zavoevaniem i +ekonomicheskim putem, chtoby podchinit' svoemu vlijaniju, +vlijaniju svoego cikla, i ostal'nye kontingenty. Vozvrat</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1_5" id="Footnote_1_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_5" class="fnlabel">1</a> Ap. Pavel, kak odin iz naibolee darovityh uchenikov farisejskoj +shkoly, ne mog ne byt' posvjashhen v etu "tajnu bezzakonija, +nahodivshujusja v dejstvii" i v ego vremja. Otsjuda osobaja zloba +gonenija na nego so storony voinstvujushhago Izrailja.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>From the Nilus Epilogue, 1917</p> + +<p>“According to secret Jewish Zionism, a political plan was devised +in theory for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, +by Solomon and other sages already 929 years before the birth +of Christ. In the course of historical developments, the plan +was elaborated and augmented by their followers initiated in +this affair. These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully +for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake, whose +head should constitute the government of the Jews initiated in +the plans of the sages (always masked even from their own +people) and the body—the Judean nation. Penetrating the bosoms +of the governments encountered on the way, this snake +has undermined and eaten away (overthrowing) all governments, +non-Jewish forces according to their growth.</p> + +<p>“This it should also do in the future, carefully following the +outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is completed +by the return of the head of the snake to Zion, and until +the snake will thus include and concentrate in the sphere of its +circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the rest of the +world, utilizing all forces of conquest and by economic means +in order to subject also the other continents to its influence, to +the influence of its cycle. The return of the head of the snake +could be accomplished only over the razed plains of the governmental +power of all the European countries,—that is through +<a name="Page_71" id="Page_71"></a><span class="pagenum" title="71"></span>economic disorganization and ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere +by means of spiritual decadence and moral turpitude, +chiefly, with the aid of Jewish women under the guise of French, +Italian and Spanish women, the best introducers of immorality +into the conduct of the rulers of nations. Women in the hands +of Zion serve as bait for those, who owing to them are always +in need of money, and therefore barter their conscience in order +to get money at any cost. This money, in fact, is only loaned to +them, for it quickly comes back to the hands of bribing Zion +through these very women, and at the same time they have +secured slaves for Zion.”</p></div> + +<p>A comparison of these pages shows that Nilus merely +added to Lutostansky’s version the statement to be found +in Butmi’s version that the political plan for the peaceful +conquest of the world for Zion, was devised in theory by +Solomon and other sages <em>929 years before the birth of +Christ</em>. Lutostansky said in 1907 that “the head of the +snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body—the +Judean nation,” while Nilus said that the “head should +constitute the government of the Jews initiated in the plans +of the sages (always masked even from their own people) +and the body—the Judean nation.” Thus the sages of +Zion were transformed by Nilus into “the government +of the Jews” in order to connect the “political plan” all +the more closely with the “protocols.” The American +editors have omitted this part of the Nilus epilogue, evidently +because it seemed even to them too absurd for +American consumption.</p> + +<p>All of the literature about the “protocols” that appeared +in various parts of the world in 1920 is based on +the “documents” vouched for by the mysterious Sergius +Nilus, and fortified by the irresponsible Jew-baiter and +intellectual pervert Ippolit Lutostansky.</p> + +<p>That the Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi campaign was just +what the Tsarist government desired may be seen from +<a name="Page_72" id="Page_72"></a><span class="pagenum" title="72"></span>the photographic reproduction of the letter sent to +Lutostansky by Grand Duke Michael, who was regarded +as the most liberal among the Russian Grand Dukes. The +letter appears together with other letters of congratulation +from members of the Imperial family in the volume +containing the passages quoted above.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 330px;"> +<img src="images/il072.png" width="330" height="301" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Letter of thanks sent by Grand Duke Michael to Lutostansky +for his anti-semitic work.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">Состоящій при<br /> +Его Императорскомъ Высочествѣ<br /> +Государѣ Наслѣдникѣ<br /> +и<br /> +великомъ князѣ<br /> +Михаилѣ Александровичѣ<br /> +</p> +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> +<p class="center"> +<em>7 Ноября 1902 г</em>.<br /> +№ 1443.<br /> +С.-Петербургъ.</p> + +<p class="fl">Его Высокоблагородію<br /> +И.І. Лютостанскому.<br /> +</p> + +<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Копія</em>.</p> + +<p class="fl"> +Милостивый Государь<br /> +Ипполитъ Іосифовичъ. +</p> + +<p>ЕГО ИМПЕРАТОРСКОЕ ВЫСОЧЕСТВО +ГОСУДАРЬ НАСЛѢДНИКЪ и ВЕЛИКІЙ +КНЯЗЬ <span class="sp">МИХАИЛЪ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧЪ</span> +соизволилъ благосклонно принять +поднесенный Вами трудъ „Талмудъ и евреи“, +причемъ ЕГО ВЫСОЧЕСТВУ благоугодно +было поручить мнѣ передать Вамъ ЕГО +искреннюю признательность за Ваше поднесеніе.</p> + +<p>Благоволите принять и мою личную +глубокую признательность за присланный +мнѣ экземпляръ Вашей книги.</p> + +<p>Прошу Васъ принять увѣреніе въ совершенномъ +моемъ уваженіи и искренней +преданности.</p> + +<p class="fl">Всегда готовый къ услугамъ <em>Д. Дашковъ</em>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">Sostojashhij pri<br /> +Ego Imperatorskom Vysochestve<br /> +Gosudare Naslednike<br /> +i<br /> +velikom knjaze<br /> +Mihaile Aleksandroviche</p> + +<hr style='width: 10%;' /> + +<p class="center"><em>7 Nojabrja 1902 g.</em><br /> +Nº 1443.<br /> +S.-Peterburg.</p> + +<p class="fl">Ego Vysokoblagorodiju<br /> +I. I. Ljutostanskomu.</p> + +<p style="text-align: right;"><em>Kopija.</em></p> + +<p class="fl">Milostivyj Gosudar'<br /> +Ippolit Iosifovich.</p> + +<p>EGO IMPERATORSKOE VYSOCHESTVO +GOSUDAR' NASLEDNIK I VELIKIJ +KNJAZ' <span class="sp">MIHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH</span> +soizvolil blagosklonno prinjat' +podnesennyj Vami trud "Talmud i evrei", +prichem EGO VYSOCHESTVU blagougodno +bylo poruchit' mne peredat' Vam EGO +iskrennjuju priznatel'nost' za Vashe podnesenie.</p> + +<p>Blagovolite prinjat' i moju lichnuju +glubokuju priznatel'nost' za prislannyj +mne ekzempljar Vashej knigi.</p> + +<p>Proshu Vas prinjat' uverenie v sovershennom +moem uvazhenii i iskrennej +predannosti.</p> + +<p>Vsegda gotovyj k uslugam <em>D. Dashkov.</em></p> +</div> + +<p>For the benefit of the antisemitic agitators in England, +such as the editors of The Morning Post, The New Witness, +The Spectator, Blackwood’s Magazine, and a number +of irresponsible publications needless to name, it will +prove instructive and interesting to reproduce a few additional +passages from the same volume, in order that they +may know and appreciate not only what that authority +<a name="Page_73" id="Page_73"></a><span class="pagenum" title="73"></span>said concerning the Jews but also what he thought of the +English.</p> + +<p>On pages 279, 282 and 283 of volume six of “The +Talmud and the Jews,” after outlining the alleged Jewish +plot to gain world dominion, Lutostansky wrote, in 1907:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“The English are typical pure-blooded Israelites. In ancient +times they were all red-headed, as we see from the descriptions +in the Bible and the New Testament. The characteristic of the +Israelites is known to the whole world under the sun. The +characteristic of the English, if we follow it closely, does not +differ from the Jewish in the slightest degree. Who are the +English? This question has long occupied the minds of many +people in Europe, as well as in England itself. The universal +trading traits of the sons of Albion, their looting politics, based +on unfair business, and many other characteristic traits of the +nation which are not peculiar to any of the other European nations +that are even less cultured and civilized <a name="typo7" id="typo7"></a>that the English—all +these have long seemed very suspicious and have drawn +attention to a certain kinship between the Anglo-Saxons and +the Jews. During the past two decades, in England and America, +also on the European continent, particularly in France, a whole +literature has been created, proving on the basis of many facts, +suppositions and historical references, that the origin of the +Anglo-Saxon race is not Germanic, but Semitic, that the English +are the direct descendants of the Israelites, thrown by historic +fate to the shores of the distant Albion....</p> + +<p>“Indeed, the lion of Judah, has become the British lion and +adorns the coat of arms of the King of England. The harp +of King David to this day represents the coat of arms of Ireland....</p> + +<p>“But not only are the kings of England the direct descendants +of Jewish Kings, they are even seated on the throne of David, +on which the ancient Jewish kings were married. This throne, +on which Jacob fell asleep on that night when he dreamt of +the ladder and when the Lord promised the kingdom to his +posterity. This stone, called ‘the Stone of Fate,’ which served +for the weddings of Jewish Kings, was brought to Ireland by +the prophet Jeremiah. Tergus (?) transferred it to Scotland, +whence it was taken to London.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74"></a><span class="pagenum" title="74"></span>“It is curious to note that many prophecies about this fate +of Israel fit England absolutely, as for instance, the prophesy +that Israel will become a great nation, a kingdom on islands, +ruling over large colonies.</p> + +<p>“North America is inhabited by the tribe of Menasseh of +whom it was said in ancient prophesy that he will become a ‘separate +great nation.’ The very word <em>saxon</em> is derived from <em>Isaacson</em>, +that is the son of Israel....</p> + +<p>“As one of the signs of kinship between the population of +England and ancient Israel, we cannot help pointing out the +close similarity between the English and Jewish tribes, the +similarity in their manner of speech, and above all, trading as +the fundamental characteristic of both nations....</p> + +<p>“The particular reverence in which the English hold the Bible +smacks of the Old Testament of the Jews. Even the preference +on the part of the English for long clothes indicates something +Asiatic....</p> + +<p>“Arousing of late the unanimous indignation of the whole +civilized world, the English at the same time call forth amazement +at their traits, instincts and aspirations which positively +make them a monster in the family of cultured and civilized +European nations. As the proverb says, there is no family without +a black sheep. Every monstrosity, however, is to be explained—Jews +come from Jews.”</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>This interesting information is taken from Lutostansky’s +book. Nilus and other writers of the Black Hundred +camp pictured England in the same manner immediately +after 1905. It was then the Russian governmental +policy to discredit England and the Jews in the +eyes of the Russian people, and the Black Hundreds were +employed by the Tsar as the medium through which to +carry on this agitation.</p> + +<p>The “Black Hundreds” started their campaign in 1905, +but their work was so venomous, so absurd and so steeped +in ignorance that there were few people even in Russia +who paid any attention to it.</p> + +<p>That the Nilus protocols which were published by the +Black Hundreds were not taken seriously in Russia by +the reactionaries or even by the Black Hundreds who +<a name="Page_75" id="Page_75"></a><span class="pagenum" title="75"></span>sought every means of discrediting the Jews, may be +gathered from the fact that in the most stupendous anti-Jewish +plot ever devised by the Russian government to +justify Jewish massacres,—the notorious Beilis case,—the +protocols published eight years previously were never used +by the prosecution, even though it resorted to every foul +means that could be conjured up of slandering and vilifying +the Jewish people. The very persons who were instrumental +in spreading the “protocols” in Russia in 1905 +seemed to have realized that the false accusations which +they contained were too transparent and too clumsy to +deceive even the most credulous, and so they were discarded.</p> + +<p>But suddenly, after the armistice, a new edition of the +Nilus book containing the “protocols,” dated 1917, made +its appearance as suitable to the chaotic conditions that +prevailed in Russia and during the past two years, as +has been shown, it was reproduced in various countries. +This time the antisemitic propagandists are trying to +connect the “protocols” directly with Theodore Herzl +and the Zionist movement. The war, the peace treaty +and bolshevism are characterized as the fulfillment of +these “protocols” which they say had been devised no +less than 929 years before the birth of Christ, by Solomon +and other Sages. The present “protocols” have been +elaborated from the “Retcliffe-Goedsche” versions by the +Russian secret police department and the Black Hundreds +who ascribed all the evils in the world to the Jews.</p> + +<p>The Black Hundred writer, G. Butmi, whose book +“Enemies of the Human Race,” containing the fabricated +speech by a “famous Rabbi” side by side with the “protocols,” +gives several characteristic passages in his introduction +that will convey to the reader a clear conception +of the type of men who have stood behind the movement +<a name="Page_76" id="Page_76"></a><span class="pagenum" title="76"></span>to discredit the Jews through the so-called “protocols.”</p> + +<p>On page 36 of this volume, Butmi wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“The French Revolution, which ended in the execution of +Louis XVI in 1793, was engineered by England with the aid of +the Jews and the Judaized Masons. Only the Jews profited by +the French Revolution, even as they profited by the English +Revolution, attaining in the general turmoil equal rights with +the native population of France.”</p></div> + +<p>Discussing the traits of the English people and finding +a similarity between them and the Jews, Butmi said on +page 38:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“The British traits are well known all over the world—their +exceptional selfishness, their inhuman cruelty to foreigners, their +inherent instinct of exploitation, their theoretical stupidity are +mingled with practical shrewdness and utter brazenness.”</p></div> + +<p>On page 39 he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Meanwhile the Britons have not distinguished themselves in +anything, if we are not to take into consideration the fact that +being thoroughly incapable of creating their own language, they +have by their talent to distort languages given to the present +English people a repulsive Judeo-Carthaginian imprint through +their shameless self-satisfaction, arrogance and treacherous inclinations.”</p></div> + +<p>On page 41 he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“In 1843 the first lodge of the new Jewish union ‘Bnai Brith’ +was organized in New York. Gradually this Jewish ‘Bnai +Brith’ concentrates in its hands the direction of all Masonic +lodges in America, and through them it directs American politics.”</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 469px;"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></a><span class="pagenum" title="77"></span> +<img src="images/il077.png" width="469" height="389" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of a Nilus protocol published in 1905. Photographed from the book in +the British Museum.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">—364—</p> + +<p>Кто заподозритъ тогда, что всѣ эти проблемы были подстроены +нами по политическому плану, котораго никто не +раскусилъ въ теченіи многихъ вѣковъ?!. ....</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Еще протоколъ</span>.</p> + +<p>Когда мы воцаримся намъ не желательно будет существованіе +другой религіи, кромѣ нашей о Единомъ Богѣ, +съ Которымъ наша судьба связана его избраніемъ и Которымъ +та же наша судьба объединена съ судьбами міра. +<span class="sp">Поэтому мы должны разрушить всякія вѣрованія</span>. +Если отъ этого родятся современные атеисты, то, какъ переходная +ступень это не помѣшаетъ нашимъ видамъ, а <span class="sp">послужитъ +примѣромъ для тѣхъ поколѣній, которыя будутъ +слушать проповѣди наши о религіи Моисея, +приведшей своей стойкой и обдуманной системой +къ покоренію намъ всѣхъ народовъ</span>. Въ этомъ мы +подчеркнемъ и мистическую ея правду, въ которой, скажемъ +мы, основывается вся ея воспитательная сила.... . +Тогда при каждом случаѣ мы будемъ публиковать статьи, +въ которыхъ будемъ сравнивать наше благое правленіе съ +прошлыми. Благодѣянія покоя, хотя и вынужденнаго вѣками +волненій, послужатъ къ новому рельефу сказаннаго блага. +Ошибки гоевскихъ администрацій будутъ описываться нами +въ самыхъ яркихъ краскахъ. Мы посѣемъ такое къ нимъ +отвращеніе, что <span class="sp">народы предпочтутъ покой въ крѣпостномъ +состояніи</span> правамъ пресловутой свободы, столь +ихъ измучившимъ и истощившимъ самые источники человѣческаго +существованія, которые эксплоатировались толпою +проходимцевъ, не вѣдавшихъ, что творятъ...... Безполезныя +перемѣны правленій, къ которымъ мы подбивали гоевъ, +когда подкапывали ихъ государственныя зданія, до того надоѣдятъ +къ тому времени народамъ, что они предпочтутъ +терпѣть отъ насъ все, лишь бы не рисковать переиспытывать +пережитыя волненія и невзгоды. Мы же особенно будемъ +подчеркивать историческія ошибки гоевскихъ правленій, +столько вѣковъ промучившихъ человѣчество отсутствіемъ</p> + +<p class="center">—365—</p> + +<p class="fl">сообразительности во всемъ, что касается истиннаго его +блага, въ погонѣ за фантастическими проектами соціальныхъ +благъ, не замѣчая, что эти проекты все болѣе ухудшали, +а не улучшали положеніе всеобщихъ отношеній, на которыхъ +основывается человѣческая жизнь...</p> + +<p>Вся сила нашихъ принциповъ и мѣропріятій будетъ заключена +въ томъ, что они нами выставятся и истолкуются, +какъ яркій контрастъ разложившимся старымъ порядкамъ +общественнаго строя.</p> + +<p>Наши философы будутъ обсуждать всѣ недостатки гоевскихъ +вѣрованій, но никто никогда не станетъ обсуждать +нашу вѣру съ ея истинной точки зрѣнія, такъ какъ ее +никто основательно не узнаетъ, кромѣ нашихъ, которые +никогда не посмѣютъ выдать ея тайны..</p> + +<p><span class="sp">Въ странахъ, называемыхъ передовыми, мы создали +безумную, грязную, отвратительную литературу. +Еще нѣкоторое время послѣ вступленія нашего +во власть мы станемъ поощрять ея существованіе, +чтобы она рельефнѣе обрисовала контрастъ +рѣчей, программъ, которыя раздадутся съ высотъ +нашихъ....... Наши умные люди, воспитанные для +руководства гоями, будутъ составлять рѣчи, проекты, +записки, статьи, которыми мы будемъ вліять на +умы, направляя ихъ къ намѣченнымъ нами понятіямъ +и знаніямъ</span>.</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Еще протоколъ</span>.</p> + +<p>Когда мы, наконецъ окончательно воцаримся при помощи +государственныхъ переворотовъ, всюду подготовленныхъ +къ одному и тому же дню, послѣ окончательнаго признанія +негодности всѣхъ существующихъ правительствъ (а +до этого пройдетъ еще не мало времени, можетъ быть и +цѣлый вѣкъ), мы постараемся, чтобы противъ насъ уже не +было заговоровъ. Для этого мы немилосердно казнимъ всѣхъ +кто встрѣтитъ наше воцареніе съ оружіемъ въ рукахъ. Всякое +новое учрежденіе какого-либо тайнаго общества будетъ +</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">-364-</p> + +<p>Kto zapodozrit togda, chto vse eti problemy byli podstroeny +nami po politicheskomu planu, kotorago nikto ne +raskusil v techenii mnogih vekov?!. ....</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Eshhe protokol.</span></p> + +<p>Kogda my vocarimsja nam ne zhelatel'no budet sushhestvovanie +drugoj religii, krome nashej o Edinom Boge, +s Kotorym nasha sud'ba svjazana ego izbraniem i Kotorym +ta zhe nasha sud'ba ob'edinena s sud'bami mira. +<span class="sp">Poetomu my dolzhny razrushit' vsjakija verovanija</span>. +Esli ot etogo rodjatsja sovremennye ateisty, to, kak perehodnaja +stupen' eto ne pomeshaet nashim vidam, a <span class="sp">posluzhit +primerom dlja teh pokolenij, kotoryja budut +slushat' propovedi nashi o religii Moiseja, +privedshej svoej stojkoj i obdumannoj sistemoj +k pokoreniju nam vseh narodov</span>. V etom my +podcherknem i misticheskuju eja pravdu, v kotoroj, skazhem +my, osnovyvaetsja vsja eja vospitatel'naja sila.... . +Togda pri kazhdom sluchae my budem publikovat' stat'i, +v kotoryh budem sravnivat' nashe blagoe pravlenie s +proshlymi. Blagodejanija pokoja, hotja i vynuzhdennago vekami +volnenij, posluzhat k novomu rel'efu skazannago blaga. +Oshibki goevskih administracij budut opisyvat'sja nami +v samyh jarkih kraskah. My poseem takoe k nim +otvrashhenie, chto <span class="sp">narody predpochtut pokoj v krepostnom +sostojanii</span> pravam preslovutoj svobody, stol' +ih izmuchivshim i istoshhivshim samye istochniki chelovecheskago +sushhestvovanija, kotorye eksploatirovalis' tolpoju +prohodimcev, ne vedavshih, chto tvorjat...... Bezpoleznyja +peremeny pravlenij, k kotorym my podbivali goev, +kogda podkapyvali ih gosudarstvennyja zdanija, do togo nadoedjat +k tomu vremeni narodam, chto oni predpochtut +terpet' ot nas vse, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytyvat' +perezhityja volnenija i nevzgody. My zhe osobenno budem +podcherkivat' istoricheskija oshibki goevskih pravlenij, +stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo otsutstviem</p> + +<p class="center">-365-</p> + +<p class="fl">soobrazitel'nosti vo vsem, chto kasaetsja istinnago ego +blaga, v pogone za fantasticheskimi proektami social'nyh +blag, ne zamechaja, chto eti proekty vse bolee uhudshali, +a ne uluchshali polozhenie vseobshhih otnoshenij, na kotoryh +osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'...</p> + +<p>Vsja sila nashih principov i meroprijatij budet zakljuchena +v tom, chto oni nami vystavjatsja i istolkujutsja, +kak jarkij kontrast razlozhivshimsja starym porjadkam +obshhestvennago stroja.</p> + +<p>Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' vse nedostatki goevskih +verovanij, no nikto nikogda ne stanet obsuzhdat' +nashu veru s eja istinnoj tochki zrenija, tak kak ee +nikto osnovatel'no ne uznaet, krome nashih, kotorye +nikogda ne posmejut vydat' eja tajny.</p> + +<p><span class="sp">V stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi, my sozdali +bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu. +Eshhe nekotoroe vremja posle vstuplenija nashego +vo vlast' my stanem pooshhrjat' eja sushhestvovanie, +chtoby ona rel'efnee obrisovala kontrast +rechej, programm, kotoryja razdadutsja s vysot +nashih....... Nashi umnye ljudi, vospitannye dlja +rukovodstva gojami, budut sostavljat' rechi, proekty, +zapiski, stat'i, kotorymi my budem vlijat' na +umy, napravljaja ih k namechennym nami ponjatijam +i znanijam.</span></p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Eshhe protokol.</span></p> + +<p>Kogda my, nakonec okonchatel'no vocarimsja pri pomoshhi +gosudarstvennyh perevorotov, vsjudu podgotovlennyh +k odnomu i tomu zhe dnju, posle okonchatel'nago priznanija +negodnosti vseh sushhestvujushhih pravitel'stv (a +do etogo projdet eshhe ne malo vremeni, mozhet byt' i +celyj vek), my postaraemsja, chtoby protiv nas uzhe ne +bylo zagovorov. Dlja etogo my nemiloserdno kaznim vseh +kto vstretit nashe vocarenie s oruzhiem v rukah. Vsjakoe +novoe uchrezhdenie kakogo-libo tajnago obshhestva budet</p> +</div> + +<p><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></a><span class="pagenum" title="78"></span>[<em>Translation of the Nilus Protocol published in Russia in +1905.</em>]</p> + +<p>“When we become rulers, we shall regard as undesirable the +existence of any religion except our own, proclaiming one God +with Whom our fate is tied as the Chosen People, and by Whom +our fate has been made one with the fate of the world. For +this reason we must destroy all other religions. If thereby +should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a transition step, +this will not interfere with our aims. It will serve as an example +to coming generations who will listen to the teachings of +the Mosaic religion. By its sound and reasonable system, we +have achieved the subjugation of all nations. We shall emphasize +its mystic law in which we will say lies all power.</p> + +<p>“On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will +compare our beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of +peace, though achieved through centuries of turmoil, will stand +out in relief in this era of blessings. The shortcomings of the +Gentile administrations will be pictured by us in the darkest +colors. We will sow such antipathy toward their governments +that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of servitude to +the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them and +destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were +exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were +doing. The masses will become so satiated with the endless +changes of administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles +when we were undermining their governmental institutions, +that they will tolerate anything from us rather than risk undergoing +again such struggle and hardships. We will especially +emphasize the historical mistakes of the <a name="typo9" id="typo9"></a>Gentile administrations +which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack +of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pursuing +fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that +these projects made worse instead of better the state of general +relationships which are the basis of human existences.</p> + +<p>“The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie +in that they are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp +contrast to the old and decayed order of society.</p> + +<p>“Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the +Gentile religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion +from the true point of view except our own people. We +shall have a fundamental knowledge of it and will never dare +to disclose its secrets.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79"></a><span class="pagenum" title="79"></span> +<img src="images/il079.png" width="297" height="465" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of the same protocol changed by +Butmi in 1907.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> + +<p class="center">75</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>№ 17</strong>.</p> + +<p class="center">(по рукописи протоколъ 16-й).</p> + + +<p>Когда мы воцаримся, мы будемъ при каждомъ удобномъ случаѣ +сравнивать Наше благое Правленіе съ прошлыми безалаберными +администраціями... Ошибки гоевскихъ царствъ будутъ описываться +нами въ самыхъ яркихъ краскахъ: мы посѣемъ такое +презрѣніе и отвращеніе къ нимъ, что народы предпочтутъ покой +и миръ въ крѣпостномъ состояніи правамъ пресловутой свободы, +столь измучившей ихъ въ теченіе вѣковъ, истощивъ самые +источники существованія, попираемые проходимцами, не вѣдающими, +что творятъ.</p> + +<p>Безполезныя, де факто, перемѣны правленій, на которыя мы +ихъ подбивали, когда подкапывали ихъ строй, до того имъ надоѣдятъ +до тѣхъ поръ, что они предпочтутъ принять все то, что +мы имъ навяжемъ, лишь бы не рисковать переиспытать пережитыя +невзгоды и волнения, тѣмъ болѣе, что мы будемъ, публичною +критикой, особенно подчеркивать ошибки управленія гоевскихъ +правленій, столько вѣковъ промучившихъ человѣчество +недостаткомъ сообразительности на истинныя блага, въ погонѣ за +фантастическими соціальными улучшеніями, не замѣчая,что, улучшая +бытъ нѣкоторыхъ, мѣры эти ухудшали всеобщія отношенія +и порядокъ строя, на которомъ основывается человѣческая жизнь.</p> + +<p>Наши принципы и мѣры будутъ имѣть въ свою пользу то, что +они будутъ истолкованы и выставлены, какъ контрастъ съ разложившимся +старымъ порядкамъ общественнаго строя.</p> + +<p>Наши философы будутъ обсуждать и критиковать всѣ недостатки +гоевскихъ вѣpoваній, въ чемъ они намъ отвѣтить не могутъ +по отношенію Нашей Вѣры, потому что никто ея тайнъ не +знаетъ, кромѣ нашихъ талмудистовъ и раввиновъ, а они никогда +не выдадутъ ихъ, потому что на нихъ основана сила управленія +паствою нашей.</p> + +<p>Мы создали безумную, грязную, отвратительную литературу, +особенно въ странахъ, называемыхъ передовыми. Послѣ вступленія +нашего во власть мы нѣкоторое время не запретимъ ея, но +будемъ ее искоренять строгою критикой, чтобы она, какъ остатокъ +гоевскихъ руинъ, рельефнѣе обрисовывала контрастъ того, +что раздаваться будетъ съ Нашей Высоты, съ тѣмъ, что исходило +изъ грязнаго болота гоевскихъ царствъ.</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> + +<p class="center">75</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>Nº 17.</strong></p> + +<p class="center">(po rukopisi protokol 16-j).</p> + + +<p>Kogda my vocarimsja, my budem pri kazhdom udobnom sluchae +sravnivat' Nashe blagoe Pravlenie s proshlymi bezalabernymi +administracijami... Oshibki goevskih carstv budut opisyvat'sja +nami v samyh jarkih kraskah: my poseem takoe +prezrenie i otvrashhenie k nim, chto narody predpochtut pokoj +i mir v krepostnom sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, +stol' izmuchivshej ih v techenie vekov, istoshhiv samye +istochniki sushhestvovanija, popiraemye prohodimcami, ne vedajushhimi, +chto tvorjat.</p> + +<p>Bezpoleznyja, de fakto, peremeny pravlenij, na kotoryja my +ih podbivali, kogda podkapyvali ih stroj, do togo im nadoedjat +do teh por, chto oni predpochtut prinjat' vse to, chto +my im navjazhem, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytat' perezhityja +nevzgody i volnenija, tem bolee, chto my budem, publichnoju +kritikoj, osobenno podcherkivat' oshibki upravlenija goevskih +pravlenij, stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo +nedostatkom soobrazitel'nosti na istinnyja blaga, v pogone za +fantasticheskimi social'nymi uluchshenijami, ne zamechaja, chto, uluchshaja +byt nekotoryh, mery eti uhudshali vseobshhija otnoshenija +i porjadok stroja, na kotorom osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'.</p> + +<p>Nashi principy i mery budut imet' v svoju pol'zu to, chto +oni budut istolkovany i vystavleny, kak kontrast s razlozhivshimsja +starym porjadkam obshhestvennago stroja.</p> + +<p>Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' i kritikovat' vse nedostatki +goevskih verovanij, v chem oni nam otvetit' ne mogut +po otnosheniju Nashej Very, potomu chto nikto eja tajn ne +znaet, krome nashih talmudistov i ravvinov, a oni nikogda +ne vydadut ih, potomu chto na nih osnovana sila upravlenija +pastvoju nashej.</p> + +<p>My sozdali bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu, +osobenno v stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi. Posle vstuplenija +nashego vo vlast' my nekotoroe vremja ne zapretim eja, no +budem ee iskorenjat' strogoju kritikoj, chtoby ona, kak ostatok +goevskih ruin, rel'efnee obrisovyvala kontrast togo, +chto razdavat'sja budet s Nashej Vysoty, s tem, chto iskhodilo +iz grjaznago bolota goevskih carstv.</p> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80"></a><span class="pagenum" title="80"></span>“In countries that are called advanced, we have created a +senseless, filthy, and disgusting literature. For a short time after +our entrance into power, we shall encourage its existence so +that it may show in great relief the contrast between it and the +written and spoken announcements which will emanate from our +exalted position. Our wise men, educated for leadership of the +Gentiles, will prepare speeches, plans, notes, and articles, through +which we shall influence their minds, directing them along the +lines of knowledge and understanding which we intend them to +follow.”</p></div> + +<p>[<em>Translation of the same Protocol published by Butmi in Russia +in 1907, showing the changes made in the Protocols within +two years.</em>]</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“When we become rulers, we shall at each suitable occasion +compare our beneficent rule with the former unsystematic administrations.... +The mistakes of the administrations of the +Gentiles will be pictured by us in the most lurid colors: we will +sow such antipathy and hatred toward these governments that +the masses will prefer peace and quiet in a condition of servitude +to the rights of the so-called liberty which for many ages had +so tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human +existence and which were exploited by adventurers, who did not +realize what they were doing.</p> + +<p>“The masses will become so satiated with the useless changes +of administration, which we instigated when we were undermining +their institutions, that they will accept anything that we +may give them rather than risk undergoing again such struggle +and disorder.... Moreover, we will, through public criticism, +especially emphasize the mistakes of the Gentile administrations +which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack +of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pursuing +fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that +these projects made worse instead of better the state of general +relationships which are the basis of human existence.</p> + +<p>“Our principles and faith will be especially useful inasmuch as +they will be put forward and interpreted by us as a contrast to +the old and decayed order of society.</p> + +<p>“Our philosophers will discuss and criticise the shortcomings +of the Gentile religions, but the latter will not be able to answer +with regard to our faith, for no one is acquainted with +<a name="Page_81" id="Page_81"></a><span class="pagenum" title="81"></span>its mysteries except our Rabbis and <a name="typo8" id="typo8"></a>Talmudists, and they will +never reveal it, for on them depends the power of guiding our +flock.</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/il081.png" width="303" height="464" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of Nilus protocol which was +published in 1905 and changed by Butmi in +1907.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">—345—</p> +<p class="fl">хитростью и пронырливостью во время переговоровъ и соглашеній, +но въ томъ, что называется „офиціальнымъ языкомъ“, +мы будемъ держаться противоположной тактики и +будемъ казаться честными и сговорчивыми. Такимъ образомъ +народы и правительства гоевъ, которыхъ мы пріучили +смотрѣть только на показную сторону того, что мы имъ +представляемъ, примутъ насъ еще за благодѣтелей и спасителей +рода человѣческаго.</p> + +<p><span class="sp">На каждое противодѣйствіе мы должны быть +въ cocтояніи отвѣтить войной съ сосѣдями той +странѣ, которая осмѣлиться намъ противодѣйствовать, +но, если и сосѣди эти задумаютъ стать +коллективно противъ насъ, то мы должны дать +отпоръ всеобщей войной</span>.</p> + +<p>Главный успѣхъ въ политикѣ заключается въ тайнѣ ея предпріятій: +слово не должно согласоваться съ дѣйствіями дипломата.</p> + +<p>Къ дѣйствіямъ въ пользу широко задуманнаго нами +плана, уже близящагося къ вожделѣнному концу, мы должны +вынуждать гоевскія правительства якобы <span class="sp">общественнымъ +мнѣніемъ, втайнѣ подстроеннымъ нами +при помощи такъ называемой „великой державы“—печати, +которая, за немногими исключеніями, +съ которыми считаться не стоитъ,—вся +уже въ рукахъ нашихъ</span>.</p> + +<p>Однимъ словомъ, чтобы резюмировать нашу систему обузданія +гоевскихъ правительствъ въ Европѣ мы одному изъ +нихъ покажемъ свою силу покушеніями, т.е. терроромъ, +а всѣмъ, если допустить ихъ возстаніе противъ нась, мы +отвѣтимъ <span class="sp">Американскими или Китайскими, или +Японскими пушками</span>.</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Слѣдующій протоколъ</span>.</p> + +<p>Мы должны заручиться для себя всѣми орудіями, которыми +наши противники могли бы воспользоваться противъ +насъ. Мы должны будемъ выискивать въ самыхъ тонкихъ +выраженіяхъ и загвоздкахъ правового словаря оправданія +</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">-345-</p> +<p class="fl">hitrost'ju i pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij, +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja "oficial'nym jazykom", +my budem derzhat'sja protivopolozhnoj taktiki i +budem kazat'sja chestnymi i sgovorchivymi. Takim obrazom +narody i pravitel'stva goev, kotoryh my priuchili +smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju storonu togo, chto my im +predstavljaem, primut nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej +roda chelovecheskago.</p> + +<p><span class="sp">Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my dolzhny byt' +v sostojanii otvetit' vojnoj s sosedjami toj +strane, kotoraja osmelitsja nam protivodejstvovat', +no, esli i sosedi eti zadumajut stat' +kollektivno protiv nas, to my dolzhny dat' +otpor vseobshhej vojnoj</span>.</p> + +<p>Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slovo ne dolzhno soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomata.</p> + +<p>K dejstvijam v pol'zu shiroko zadumannago nami +plana, uzhe blizjashhagosja k vozhdelennomu koncu, my dolzhny +vynuzhdat' goevskija pravitel'stva jakoby <span class="sp">obshhestvennym +mneniem, vtajne podstroennym nami +pri pomoshhi tak nazyvaemoj "velikoj derzhavy"—pechati, +kotoraja, za nemnogimi iskljuchenijami, +s kotorymi schitat'sja ne stoit,—vsja +uzhe v rukah nashih</span>.</p> + +<p>Odnim slovom, chtoby rezjumirovat' nashu sistemu obuzdanija +goevskih pravitel'stv v Evrope my odnomu iz +nih pokazhem svoju silu pokushenijami, t.e. terrorom, +a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie protiv nas', my +otvetim <span class="sp">Amerikanskimi ili Kitajskimi, ili +Japonskimi pushkami</span>.</p> + + + +<p class="center"><span class="sp">Sledujushhij protokol.</span></p> + +<p>My dolzhny zaruchit'sja dlja sebja vsemi orudijami, kotorymi +nashi protivniki mogli by vospol'zovat'sja protiv +nas. My dolzhny budem vyiskivat' v samyh tonkih +vyrazhenijah i zagvozdkah pravovogo slovarja opravdanija</p> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“We have created a senseless, filthy and disgusting literature, +especially in the so-called advanced countries. For a short time +<a name="Page_82" id="Page_82"></a><span class="pagenum" title="82"></span>after our entrance into power we will not prohibit this literature, +but will weed it out by means of destructive criticism, in order +that, as a remnant of the Gentile ruins, there should be a stronger +contrast between the literature that will come down from Our +Height and that which emanated from the filthy mud of the +Gentile governments.”</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 313px;"> +<img src="images/il082.png" width="313" height="468" alt="Facsimile of Russian" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Facsimile of Butmi protocol published in +1907, showing the change made after the +Revolution.</span> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transcription</h5> +<p class="center">52</p> + +<p>Для достиженія этого, по всей Европѣ, а съ помощью ея отношеній +и на другихъ континентахъ, мы должны создать броженія, +пререканія, раздоры и вражду. Въ этомъ—двоякая польза: во +первыхъ, мы держимъ въ страхѣ всѣ страны, хорошо вѣдающія, +что мы властны произвести по желанію безпорядки или водворить +порядокъ въ нихъ. Онѣ привыкли видѣть въ насъ необходимое +давленіе: <em>мы запутали всѣ нити, протянутыя въ Государственные +Кабинеты всемірною политикой, экономическими договорами +или долговыми обязательствами</em>. Для достиженія этого +послѣдняго обстоятельства намъ надо было вооружиться большою +хитростью и даже пронырливостью во время переговоровъ и соглашеній: +но въ томъ, что называется оффиціальнымъ языкомъ, +мы должны были казаться сговорчивыми и правдивыми. Такимъ +образомъ гои, <em>которыхъ мы пріучили смотрѣтъ только на показную +сторону того, что мы имъ представляемъ</em>, принимаютъ +насъ еще за благодѣтелей и спасителей рода человѣческаго.</p> + +<p>На каждое противодѣйствіе мы готовы отвѣтить противодѣйствующей +Странѣ войною съ сосѣдями, а если многіе задумаютъ +коллективно дѣйствовать противъ насъ, то мы завяжемъ узелъ +всеобщей войны, и незамѣтно для нихъ подобьем ихъ на это...</p> + +<p>Главный успѣхъ въ политике заключается въ тайнѣ ея предпріятій: +слова не должны согласоваться съ дѣйствіями дипломатовъ.</p> + +<p class="bbox"><em>Мы успѣшно вынуждали не разъ къ войнѣ гоевскія правительства, +якобы общественнымъ мнѣніемъ, въ тайнѣ подстроеннымъ +нами. Одному изъ нихъ мы доказывали свои силы въ покушеніяхъ—въ +террорѣ, а всѣмъ, если допустить ихъ возстаніе, +мы отвѣтимъ Американскими, Китайскими или Японскими пушками, +которыя всецѣло въ нашемъ распоряжѣніи</em>.</p> + + +<p class="center"><strong>№ 5.</strong></p> + +<p class="center">(по рукописи протоколъ 2-й).</p> + +<p>Намъ необходимо, чтобы войны не давали территориальныхъ +выгодъ. Это перенесетъ войну на экономическую почву, на которой +націи убѣдятся въ томъ, что преобладаніе зависитъ отъ +<em>нашей помощи</em>, а такое положеніе вещей отдастъ обѣ стороны въ +распоряженіе нашей интернаціональной агентуры, обладающей +милліонами глазъ, взоровъ, не прегражденныхъ никакими границами... +Тогда наши интернаціональныя права сотрутъ всѣ народныя +права и будутъ ими править такъ, какъ гражданское +</p> +</div> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"> +<h5>Transliteration</h5> +<p class="center">52</p> + +<p>Dlja dostizhenija etogo, po vsej Evrope, a s pomoshh'ju eja otnoshenij +i na drugih kontinentah, my dolzhny sozdat' brozhenija, +prerekanija, razdory i vrazhdu. V etom—dvojakaja pol'za: vo +pervyh, my derzhim v strahe vse strany, horosho vedajushhija, +chto my vlastny proizvesti po zhelaniju bezporjadki ili vodvorit' +porjadok v nih. One privykli videt' v nas neobhodimoe +davlenie: <em>my zaputali vse niti, protjanutyja v Gosudarstvennye +Kabinety vsemirnoju politikoj, ekonomicheskimi dogovorami +ili dolgovymi objazatel'stvami</em>. Dlja dostizhenija etogo +poslednjago obstojatel'stva nam nado bylo vooruzhit'sja bol'shoju +hitrost'ju i dazhe pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij: +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja official'nym jazykom, +my dolzhny byli kazat'sja sgovorchivymi i pravdivymi. Takim +obrazom goi, <em>kotoryh my priuchili smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju +storonu togo, chto my im predstavljaem</em>, prinimajut +nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej roda chelovecheskago.</p> + +<p>Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my gotovy otvetit' protivodejstvujushhej +Strane vojnoju s sosedjami, a esli mnogie zadumajut +kollektivno dejstvovat' protiv nas, to my zavjazhem uzel +vseobshhej vojny, i nezametno dlja nih podob'em ih na eto...</p> + +<p>Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slova ne dolzhny soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomatov.</p> + +<p class="bbox"><em>My uspeshno vynuzhdali ne raz k vojne goevskija pravitel'stva, +jakoby obshhestvennym mneniem, v tajne podstroennym +nami. Odnomu iz nih my dokazyvali svoi sily v pokushenijah—v +terrore, a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie, +my otvetim Amerikanskimi, Kitajskimi ili Japonskimi pushkami, +kotoryja vsecelo v nashem rasporjazhenii</em>.</p> + +<p class="center"><strong>Nº 5.</strong></p> + +<p class="center">(po rukopisi protokol 2-j).</p> + +<p>Nam neobhodimo, chtoby vojny ne davali territorial'nyh +vygod. Eto pereneset vojnu na ekonomicheskuju pochvu, na kotoroj +nacii ubedjatsja v tom, chto preobladanie zavisit ot +<em>nashej pomoshhi</em>, a takoe polozhenie veshhej otdast obe storony v +rasporjazhenie nashej internacional'noj agentury, obladajushhej +millionami glaz, vzorov, ne pregrazhdennyh nikakimi granicami... +Togda nashi internacional'nyja prava sotrut vse narodnyja +prava i budut imi pravit' tak, kak grazhdanskoe</p> +</div> + +<p><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83"></a><span class="pagenum" title="83"></span>Thus it is seen that Butmi, publishing his version of +the “protocols” in 1907, two years after the Nilus +version had appeared, changed the text to suit his purposes. +In 1905, before the first Russian revolution, the +Nilus version of the “protocols” said “<em>we will show one +of them our strength by means of violence, that is, by +terrorism</em>.” After the revolution, Butmi changed this +sentence to read “<em>We have shown one of these governments +our powers by assassination, by terrorism</em>.”</p> + +<p>And now the introducers of the “protocols” in this +country and in Europe are pointing to bolshevism as the +fulfillment of the “documents” which have been concocted, +elaborated and changed by antisemites to serve the devious +political purposes of their masters and their own.</p> + +<p>The “protocols” came into the world with the trademark, +“made in Germany” and were elaborated under the +auspices of the “Russian Black Hundreds” in their efforts +to save the dying Russian autocracy. When the Russian +autocracy was overthrown and members of the “Black +Hundreds” were scattered in various lands, their financial +and “moral” support shattered, they set out in quest of +new sources of income. They are now resorting to their +old discredited methods in a new environment and thus +the poison of the Russian Black Hundreds is being +spread in England, Germany, France, the Scandinavian +countries, Japan, and even in this country. The voice +is the voice of dead despotic Russia, and the hand is the +hand of the same “Black Hundreds.”</p> + +<p>And now cowardly anonymous writers are embellishing +the “protocols,” adding new lies to the old ones, making +accusations against the Jews that even Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi +dared not make in darkest Russia. Perhaps +some day these new legends and absurd, malicious myths +may evolve into a new and revised edition of secret Jewish +“protocols.”</p> + +<p><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84"></a><span class="pagenum" title="84"></span>In periods of turmoil and unrest such venomous fabrications +may gain credence among the ignorant and may +poison their minds. But, like all anti-semitic myths of +old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to destroy +themselves. A lie shuns the sunlight. It thrives in darkness. +It cannot survive analysis. The truth will prevail.</p> + +<p>Israel has no secret protocols, no hidden designs. After +all its tribulations, its dream is still of peace, of justice +and of human brotherhood. After all the centuries the +word that came from Sinai and the message of the +prophets of old are still enshrined in its heart. Indeed +as has been aptly said: “The Holy Scriptures are the +only authentic protocols of the Wise Men of Zion.”</p> + +<p class="center">THE END<a name="Page_85" id="Page_85"></a><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86"></a></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87"></a><span class="pagenum" title="87"></span>Books translated by <strong>HERMAN BERNSTEIN</strong> From the Russian</h2> +<hr style='width: 80%;' /> + +<p><strong>RESURRECTION. By Count Leo Tolstoi.</strong> (Published +1900.) It depicts with a master hand the ocean of life rocked +by storm and lulled to sleep and ease. In the splash of every +wave is heard the story of human emotions, misery, disenchantment, +suffering, crime, and life, that is true—even in +art. Illustrated. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid.<br /></p> + +<p><br /></p> + +<p><strong>“FOMA GORDEYEV.” By Maxim Gorky.</strong> (Published 1901.) +This book made Gorky’s literary reputation in Russia, Germany +and France. It is a most remarkable novel. The New +York <em>Evening Post</em> says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“Maxim Gorky, the young Russian poet of the vagabond and the +proletariat, the most ardent worshipper at the shrine of Nietzsche and +his ideal ‘Over-Man,’ owes much of his sudden popularity to his personality. +The son of a poor upholsterer, Gorky was thrown upon his +own resources at the age of nine and since then has experienced a +wide range of human emotions, struggles, depravity and misery. +Shoemaker, apple peddler, painter, dock-hand, railroad workman, +baker and tramp, this unique author had a thousand and one similar +occupations, and had even made more than one attempt to take his +own life.”</p></div> + +<p>This version of <strong>Foma Gordeyev</strong>, is in no way abridged, giving +the exact reproduction of the thought and expression of +the author. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid.</p> + +<p><br /></p> + +<p><strong>THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED. By Leonid Andreyev.</strong> +(Published 1909.) What reviewers say:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>“It is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more +impressive than any other Russian fiction translated in a long time. +Under the crystal simplicity of Andreyev’s style each spirit reveals +itself, stripped of its bodily covering, in its inmost truth.”—<strong>New York +Times.</strong></p> + +<p>“Grewsome because it is fearfully real. But it is compelling for +the same reason.”—<strong>New York World.</strong></p> + +<p>“It is not a mere morbid probing into the abnormal and horrible. +It has its mission. It is a grim and terrible picture, and it is painted +with tremendous art—the art of a Dore.”—<strong>Chicago Inter-Ocean.</strong></p></div> + +<p>Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid.</p> + +<p><br /></p> + +<p><strong>THE FORGED COUPON. By Count Leo Tolstoi.</strong> (Published +1912.) This story shows the successive evil and wrong +resulting from the forging of a bank note by a student in +need of money. Numerous crimes succeed each other as a +result of this first wrong act, until the wave of crime is +checked by a poor, ignorant woman and a lame tailor, who +follow the real teaching of Christ. The book contains also +<strong>After the Ball</strong>, a story of love and military life; <strong>Korney Vasilyev</strong>, +a story of peasant life; <strong>Tolstoi’s Vital Humanitarian +Ideas</strong>, giving the very essence of the fountain-spring and incentive +of all the literary work ever written by this wonderful +man—a peep, as it were, at the power-works of his thinking +machine. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid.</p> + +<hr style='width: 80%;' /> + +<p><strong>J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 57 Rose Street, NEW YORK</strong></p> + +<hr style='width: 80%;' /> + +<div class="trans" xml:lang="ru"><h5>Transcriber's Note</h5> +<p>The following apparent misprints have been corrected in this electronic edition.</p> +<table cellpadding="2" style="font-size: smaller;" summary="List of misprints and their corrections"> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo1">answered the learned Polish Jew</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">answerd</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo1_a">reactionary Chernsk nobility made</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">Chersnk</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo2">Constantinople!</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">Constaninople</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo3">“‘Our nation is ostentatious and greedy,</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">“Our</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo4">sole possessors of all the gold to be found on earth</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">all the gold<br /><br /><br />to be found</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo4_a">free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts.</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">scepticsm<br /><br /><br />to be found</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo5">tremendous capital which is in their possession</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">possesson</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo6">Russia adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of vengeance</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">vengenance</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo7">less cultured and civilized that the English</a></td> +<td class="top" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">left as printed; unverifiable translation.</td> +</tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo8">mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">Tadmudists</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo9">historical mistakes of the Gentile</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">Gentle</td></tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo10">must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking</a></td> +<td class="top" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">left as printed</td> +</tr> + +<tr><td class="top" style="text-align: right;"> +<a href="#typo11">The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin</a></td> +<td class="top" style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em;">as printed</td> +<td class="top">Nikolayevtich</td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="3">Any misprints in Cyrillic facsimile pages are left uncorrected.</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3">The capitalization and hyphenation of anti-Semitic (and variants) +is inconsistent throughout, and left as printed.</td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The History of a Lie, by Herman Bernstein + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19200-h.htm or 19200-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/0/19200/ + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of a Lie + 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' + +Author: Herman Bernstein + +Release Date: September 8, 2006 [EBook #19200] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: This text has many notes in [square brackets] +which are in the original. Added for this electronic edition are +labels for footnotes and illustrations; the actual contents of +such are original. Also added are transliterations into the Roman +alphabet (using the GOST system) of the Cyrillic facsimile pages. +An XHTML version with the original facsimile images is also available. + +Any translations appear in the original paper edition. + +=Bold= and _italic_ passages are transcribed per this example.] + + + + +THE HISTORY OF A LIE + +_"The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion"_ + +_"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."_ + --OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. + +A STUDY +BY +HERMAN BERNSTEIN + +AUTHOR OF "WITH MASTER MINDS," ETC. + +NEW YORK + +J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY +57 ROSE STREET + +COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY + + + + +_FOREWORD_ + + +_This is the history of a Lie--of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for +the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction, +by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, +who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was +gradually changed and elaborated, and finally groomed as fact. Agents of +the Russian secret police department and of the unscrupulous "Black +Hundreds" then utilized this fiction as the framework for the +"protocols" through which they sought to crush the Jews and prop up the +tottering Russian dynasty._ + +_Tsarism destroyed itself, but the agents of Tsarism, still dreaming of +their past glory and of a restoration of their privileges, are at work +again, both here and abroad._ + +_Out of the scrapheap of Russian autocracy, they have exhumed their old +weapons and are striking at the Jews again. Upon the structure of the +old myths they are striving to erect new falsehoods in order to +intensify everywhere chaos and confusion and dissatisfaction so that +they may attain their own dastardly and selfish ends._ + +_In the war's aftermath the Jews are being blamed by the minions of +autocracy and reaction for all the ills that have befallen mankind. Some +blame them for the war, and others for the peace. Some attack them for +the defeat of the German military machine, and others for the victory of +the allies. In Germany they are attacked by the Junkers for having +opposed the submarine warfare and thus assured Germany's defeat; while +in some of the allied countries the Jews are denounced for constituting +"the brains of Germany." All the revolutionary leaders of Germany are +credited to the Jews, and bolshevism, which has as little in common with +Judaism as it has with Christianity, is branded as a Jewish movement; +and there are Jew-baiters who in their blind madness have gone so far as +to declare that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm was not only influenced by the Jews +but is himself of Jewish descent, and for this reason did not defend +Germany as loyally as he should have done. He conspired against the +Hohenzollern dynasty and undermined it. He destroyed his own throne +because he was serving the secret Jewish world organization._ + +_On such absurdities have people been fed, since the armistice, in +civilized countries by antisemitic agitators and their dupes, while Jews +have been slaughtered in the Ukraine, in Poland and in Hungary._ + +_I submit in this little book the documentary evidence showing how the +so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" on which this new crusade +is predicated, were forged._ + +HERMAN BERNSTEIN. + +_New York, February, 1921._ + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE +FOREWORD 3 + + +CHAPTER ONE +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy--Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?--Anonymous Accusations--The Mysterious +"Protocols" of Sergei Nilus--How did "Nilus" Secure +Them?--Contradictory Explanations--Who is "Nilus"? +How his Sponsors Disagree--What Russian Publicists +Say 7 + + +CHAPTER TWO +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS +WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of "Protocols" Was German Fiction of "Sir John +Retcliffe"--Who Was "Retcliffe"?--His Infamous Record--His +Bloodcurdling Story--The Meeting in the +Cemetery--An Avowed Myth--Meeting Every Hundred +Years Attended by "Representatives of the Twelve +Tribes of Israel"--The "Son of the Accursed" Also Attends +and Provides Comic Interludes 16 + + +CHAPTER THREE +FICTION FORGED INTO "FACT" + +The Lie in its Second Stage--The Tale Becomes "Fact"--The +"Rabbi's" Speech--Its Authenticity Vouched for by +"Retcliffe"--An Illuminating Footnote--A Dedication to +The Russian "Black Hundreds"--The Imaginary +"Speech" Bears Witness to Authenticity of "Protocols," +Themselves Based on "Speech"--Three Stages of the +Lie 43 + + +CHAPTER FOUR +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols--Only "the God-Anointed Tsar of +Russia" Can Save the World--Passages from Nilus +Omitted by Translators--On Tolstoy--On the Emancipation +of Women--On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful +Ally, England" 55 + + +CHAPTER FIVE +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols--"Representatives of Zion" Not to be +Confounded with "Zionists"--Butmi Contradicts Nilus--Plan +for World Conquest Conceived 929 B. C. E.--The +"Symbolic Snake"--Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device--Every +Jew Familiar with Plot 59 + + +CHAPTER SIX +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905--The Unsuccessful Revolution--The Reaction +and the Reactionaries--Lutostansky and His Work--The +"Symbolic Snake" According to Lutostansky--Who +Plagiarized?--Lutostansky on the English People--Are +the English the "Lost Tribes"?--How the Protocols +Were "Doctored" by Butmi--Conclusion 63 + + + + +CHAPTER ONE + +THE MYSTERIOUS PROTOCOLS + +The Lie of a Jewish World Conspiracy--Is There a Jewish +Conspiracy?--Anonymous Accusations--The Mysterious "Protocols" of Sergei +Nilus--How did "Nilus" Secure Them?--Contradictory Explanations--Who is +"Nilus"?--How his Sponsors Disagree--What Russian Publicists Say. + + +Is there a Jewish conspiracy against the world or is there a conspiracy +against the Jews? What are the so-called "Protocols of the Wise Men of +Zion?" Who is "the Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus, the sponsor of the +Protocols? What forces are behind the anti-Jewish propaganda that is +international in scope and that seeks at this time to spread all over +the world the poison of prejudice and hatred against the Jews, reviving +long-exploded mediaeval legends? + +Many Americans have asked these questions ever since the publication of +"The Cause of the World Unrest," "The Protocols and World Revolution," +"The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion," and the anti-Jewish articles in +Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent. + +In 1919 a translation of extracts from what purports to be a book by one +Sergius Nilus was published in Germany. During 1920 a translation was +published in England under the name of "The Jewish Peril," and under +various titles, in different versions, it was reproduced in the United +States, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and even Japan. The Japanese +edition is in the Russian language. In all these books "the Russian +mystic," Sergius Nilus, is given as the sponsor of a number of secret +"documents" by which it is intended to show that the Jews are +responsible for all the ills that have already befallen the world and +that are still to come. + +The method is simple. Was there a revolution in Russia? Blame the Jews. +Was there a revolution in Germany? Blame the Jews. Who made the French +Revolution? The Jews. Who caused the World War? The Jews. Who profited +by the war? The Jews. Is there anywhere an industrial crisis? The Jews +are, of course, the cause of it. Has the World War brought forth +Bolshevism? The Jews are naturally the fathers of it. First the Jews +engineered the war, and then they pulled the strings behind the scenes +of the Peace Conference. They secured special privileges at the Peace +Table, because, according to the Protocols, they control the gold of the +world, the press of the world, the rulers of the world. And if, as a +result of the World War, millions of Jews have suffered untold agonies, +persecution, starvation, and pogroms, it is no doubt only part of their +deep-laid plot to gain control of the world for Zion through poverty and +suffering! + +Are governments just to the Jews, giving them equal rights? Then it is +obvious that Jews are either at the head of such governments or are +hidden behind the present rulers. If the Jews cannot exert sufficient +influence over the rulers themselves, there are Jewesses in high places, +through whom the cause of Zion is served--and all this is done by the +Jews with but one aim in view--to dominate the world, to become its +autocratic masters, to break down the moral power of Christendom and set +up Israel as "the despot" over the peoples of the earth. According to +the Protocols, all this is engineered with the aid and through the +instrumentality of the Freemasons. + +The propagandists everywhere, in Germany, England, France, the +Scandinavian countries, Japan and the United States, basing all their +arguments on the "Protocols" vouched for by "the Russian mystic" Sergius +Nilus, see in the present chaotic conditions the absolute fulfillment of +the prophecies outlined by the so-called "Wise Men of Zion" years ago. +The propagandists are violent and vicious, foaming at their mouths, +appealing to the basest passions, insinuating, accusing, pointing their +fingers at "the source of all evil"--at the Jews who constitute but a +fraction of one per cent of the world's population, and who are in +Europe to-day, after the close of the World War, more wretched and +miserable than ever before,--persecuted, hounded and starved. + +What are these mysterious Protocols? How did they come to "the Russian +mystic" who revealed them in 1905, and which have now been exhumed from +obscurity for the purpose of enlightening the world, and which point to +the Jews as the cause of all unrest, chaos and confusion? + +Nilus, "the Russian mystic," is credited with several versions of how he +had secured the Protocols, and his stories flatly contradict one +another. In 1905 he said that the Protocols were given to him by a +prominent Russian conservative whose name he did not mention, and who in +turn had received them from an unnamed woman who had stolen them from +"one of the most influential leaders of Freemasonry at the close of a +secret meeting of the initiated in France." Then, several years later, +Nilus wrote that his friend himself had stolen the Protocols from "the +headquarters of the Society of Zion in France." Several years +afterwards, in a new edition of his book, Nilus said that the +"Protocols" came from Switzerland and not from France. This time he +named his Russian conservative friend, Sukhotin, who had died in the +meantime. He added that the Protocols were not Jewish-Masonic but +Zionist documents secretly read at the Zionist Congress in Basle in +1897. + +Then followed a new edition of the Nilus book bearing the date of 1917. +A translation of this edition has recently appeared in this country, +containing a brand-new explanation as to how the Protocols were rescued +and given to the world. This explanation is taken from the German +version published in Charlottenburg. The introduction to that edition +says that the Protocols, having been read from day to day at the Basle +Congress, were sent as read to Frankfort on the Main. The disclosure of +them came through the infidelity of the messenger. + +The 1917 edition is published with a prologue and an epilogue, like a +drama, which indeed it is, with all the ingredients of melodrama--a +villain, a mysterious woman, a Grand Duke, a conspiracy to destroy the +world, and a saint--Nilus, who convicts himself in his own writings of +falsification in the giving of these various accounts of how the +Protocols came into his possession. + +Nothing is known of Sergius Nilus. Russian standard reference books and +encyclopedias contain no mention of his name. + +The anonymous American editor of the Nilus book gives the following +information about Nilus: + +"Serge Nilus, in the 1905 edition of whose book was first published the +_Zionist Protocols_, was, as he states, born in the year 1862, of +Russian parents holding liberal opinions. His family was fairly well +known in Moscow, for its members were educated people who were firm in +their allegiance to the Tsar and the Greek Church. On one side he is +said to have been connected by marriage with the nobility of the Baltic +provinces. Nilus himself was graduated from the University of Moscow and +early entered the civil service, obtaining a small appointment in the +law courts. Later, he received a post under the Procurator of a +provincial court in the Caucasus. Finally, tiring of the law, he went to +the Government of Orel, where he was a landowner and a noble. His +spiritual life had been tumultuous and full of trouble, and finally he +entered the Troitsky-Sergevsky Monastery near Moscow. 'In answer to his +appeal for pardon, Saint Sergei, stern and angry, appeared to him twice +in a vision. He left the Monastery a converted man.' + +"From 1905 until the present, little is known of his activities. +Articles are said to have appeared from time to time in the Russian +press from his pen. A returning traveller from Siberia in August, 1919, +was positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk in June of that +year. Whether his final fate was that of Admiral Kolchak is not known." + +The American editor of Sergius Nilus's book containing the "Protocols" +is hiding behind anonymity. The name of the traveller from Siberia who +was so positive in his statement that Nilus was in Irkutsk is also +concealed. And Serge Nilus to whom Saint Sergei "appeared twice in a +vision" "is said to have written articles in the Russian press" of which +nobody has knowledge. + +In Germany, Nilus is described as follows: + +"Sergius Nilus was an employee of the Russian secret police department, +of the _okhrana_, connected with the Church, especially relating to +'foreign religions.' He lived for some time at the Optina Pustina +monastery. In 1901 he published a book entitled 'The Great in the Small +and the Anti-Christ.' According to the Lutsch Sveta, Nilus claims to +have received in 1901 a copy of the text of the Protocols from the +secret archives of the Main Zionist organization in France, but he +published the 'protocols' only in 1905. A second edition appeared in +1911, and finally another edition was brought out in the beginning of +1917, but all copies are said to have been destroyed." + +"The Cause of the World Unrest," an anonymous book published in England +and reprinted in this country, speaks of Nilus and the "Protocols" as +follows: + +"In the year 1903 a Russian, Serge Nilus, published a book entitled _The +Great in Little_. The second edition, which was published at Tsarskoye +Selo in 1905, had an additional chapter, the twelfth, under the heading +'Anti-Christ as a Near Political Possibility.' This chapter consisted of +some twenty pages of introduction followed by the text of twenty-four +'Protocols of Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion,' and the book ends +with some twenty pages of commentaries on these protocols by Nilus. + +"Directly after the protocols, comes a statement by Nilus that they are +'signed by representatives of Zion of the thirty-third degree.' These +protocols were secretly extracted or were stolen from a whole volume of +protocols. All this was got by my correspondent out of the secret +depositories of the Head Chancellery of Zion. This Chancellery is at +present on French territory." + +In the edition of 1917 Sergius Nilus wrote: + + "My book has already reached the fourth edition, but it is only + definitely known to me now and in a manner worthy of belief, and + that through Jewish sources, that these protocols are nothing other + than the strategic plans for the conquest of the world under the + heel of Israel, and worked out by the leaders of the Jewish + people--and read by the 'Prince of Exile,' Theodor Herzl, during the + first Zionist Congress, summoned by him in August, 1897, in Basle." + +It will be shown later that the so-called Butmi edition of the +"protocols" published in 1907 contains the definite statement of the man +who claims to have translated them into Russian from the French in 1901 +that the Elders of Zion mentioned in the Protocols are not to be +confounded with the Zionist movement. + +In the 1917 edition Sergius Nilus wrote: + + "In 1901 I came into possession of a manuscript, and this + comparatively small book was destined to cause a deep change in my + entire viewpoint as can only be caused in the heart of man by + Divine Power. It was comparable with the miracle of making the + blind see. 'May Divine acts show on him.' + + "This manuscript was called 'the protocols of the Zionist Men of + Wisdom,' and it was given to me by the now deceased leader of the + Tchernigov nobility, who later became vice-governor of Stavropol, + Alexis Nikolayevitch Sukhotin. I had already begun to work with my + pen for the glory of the Lord, and I was friendly with Sukhotin. + _He was a man of my opinion_, that is, extremely conservative, as + they are now termed. + + "Sukhotin told me that he in turn had obtained the manuscript from + a lady who always lived abroad. This lady was a noblewoman from + Tchernigov. He mentioned her by name, but I have forgotten it. He + said that she obtained it in some mysterious way, by theft, I + believe. + + "Sukhotin also said that one copy of the manuscript was given by + this lady to Sipiagin, the Minister of the Interior, upon her + return from abroad, and that Sipiagin was subsequently killed. He + said other things of the same mysterious character. But when I + first became acquainted with the contents of the manuscript I was + convinced that its terrible, cruel and straight-forward truth is + witness of its true origin from the 'Zionist Men of Wisdom,' and + that no other evidence of its origin would be needed." + +Feodor Roditchev, one of Russia's most famous liberals, a member of the +nobility, a former member of the Duma, writing recently of the Nilus +protocols and of Sukhotin whom Nilus described as a man of his own +opinion, says: + + "For months I hear on all sides about the Nilus book and its + success in England, and I am asked, Who is Nilus? There was a + Nilus, an associate justice of the Moscow District Court. It is + said that the manuscript was given to Nilus by Sukhotin, the + notorious zemstvo official of Chernsk. + + "The Berlin edition contains no mention of Sukhotin, but in that + edition Nilus said, 'Pray for the soul of the boyar Alexis.' + + "The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin means + nothing to the present generation. But there was a time when his + name attracted attention. + + "Sukhotin arrested the peasants of a whole village for refusing to + cart manure from his stables because the animals there were + infected with glanders. Judge Tsurikov released the peasants. + Tsurikov was removed for this, while Sukhotin justified his act by + writing to the Minister of the Interior, Durnovo, that he had + arrested the peasants not because they refused to cart his manure + but because they dared disobey him as a zemstvo official. The + reactionary Chernsk nobility made Sukhotin marshal of nobility. So + it was this man who furnished the protocols of the secret meetings + of the representatives of Zion! But how did Sukhotin get the + protocols? An unknown friend had brought them to him. They were + given to him by an unknown lady who had received them from an + unknown but energetic participant in the Basle Congress. Is this + credible? Well, then, there is another version of the origin of the + protocols--but that is for the German readers. The Russian + government sent a spy to the Basle Congress. He did not go to the + Congress himself, but bribed one of the participants. He was + carrying the protocols from Basle to Frankfurt to the local masonic + organization. He stopped on the way in a little town, and gave the + protocols to the spy. He engaged copyists who worked all night and + copied the protocols. + + "In the first Russian version the protocols were supposed to have + been brought to Russia in French. According to the German version, + the protocols were copied, consequently they were in German, but + the most important thing is that the protocols are not protocols at + all, but a monograph--which could be called 'the dream of a member + of the Black Hundreds.'" + +A distinguished Russian publicist says of the sponsor of the "protocols" +as follows: + + "In Russia the problems of Christianity and Judaism have been + studied by such men as Vladimir Solovyov, Professor Troitzky, + Professor Kokovtsev, Kartashov, Bulgakov, Berdyayev--men of profound + intellect and a living conscience. In them the counterfeit ravings + of the ignorant monk (Nilus) evoked but a smile of contempt. The + low level of the circles in which men like Nilus moved and worked + is only too well known. It was the world of police denunciations, + divorce perjuries, monastic servility and feigned, blasphemous + piety. In order to attract attention, Nilus's 'Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion' had to emigrate from Russia. And the further away + they went, the better they fared." + + + + +CHAPTER TWO + +THE STORY FROM WHICH THE PROTOCOLS WERE FABRICATED + +Essence of "Protocols" Was German Fiction of "Sir John Retcliffe"--Who +Was "Retcliffe"?--His Infamous Record--His Bloodcurdling Story--The Meeting +in the Cemetery--An Avowed Myth--Meeting Every Hundred Years Attended by +"Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel"--The "Son of the +Accursed" Also Attends and Provides Comic Interludes. + + +The query now naturally arises, what is the origin of these much +heralded "Protocols" which were published in Russia by Sergius Nilus in +1905, and a copy of which, it is triumphantly announced, is now in the +British Museum? + +The anti-Jewish propagandists everywhere content themselves with the +"history" of the origin of the "Protocols" as given by the "Russian +mystic" Sergius Nilus. But fortunately "murder will out," and the +criminals who perpetrated the stupendous forgery for the purpose of +slandering the Jews have left behind clues that enable one to visualize +the very process that they pursued in the perpetration of their crime. + +In 1866-1870 there appeared in Berlin a series of novels entitled +"Biarritz--Rome" purporting to have been written by "Sir John Retcliffe," +the pseudonym of Herman Goedsche, a German novelist with an unsavory +past. To conceal his identity and to convey the impression that the +antisemitism with which his writings abounded emanated from English +sources, he selected "Sir John Retcliffe" as his pen-name. + +According to _Meyer's Konversations Lexikon_ (Sixth edition, 1904, +Volume VIII, page 77), Herman Goedsche was born in February, 1815, in +Trachenberg, Silesia, and died on November 8, 1878, at Warmbrunn. He was +employed in the postal service, but as he was implicated in the Waldeck +forgery case, he left the service in 1849, and devoted himself to +literary work. Under the name of "Armin" he published a number of works +of fiction, but he was best known under the name of "Sir John +Retcliffe," having published a series of sensational novels describing +the Crimean war, "Sebastopol," "Rena-Sahib," "Villafranca," "Puebla," +"Biarritz," in 1866. A new edition of these works appeared in Berlin in +1903-4. + +_Brockhaus' Konversations Lexikon_ (supplement volume XVII, 1904) refers +to Goedsche, the novelist, known under the name of "Sir John Retcliffe" +(formerly "Armin"), as having played an infamous role in the Waldeck +forgery case. He was compelled to leave the postal service, and later +became a member of the staff of the _Preussische Kreutz Zeitung_. + +The chapter of the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which on even a cursory +reading will be found to contain the very essence of the Nilus Protocols +was published as a separate booklet in a Russian translation in 1872, +avowedly as a work of fiction. I have found a copy of this little volume +in the Russian Department of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. + +An examination of this chapter, entitled "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague +and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel," will +disclose the fact that every substantive statement contained in the +Protocols and elaborated in them is to be found in the +Goedsche-Retcliffe novelette. + +We are thus supplied with an early draft of the so-called Protocols, +which have now been given worldwide publicity by anti-Jewish +propagandists, and which were first introduced to the world in the form +of a clumsy piece of blood-curdling fiction of the dime-novel variety. + +In substantiation of this statement I now present a translation of this +chapter of the Russian version of this novel found in the Library of +Congress in Washington, published in St. Petersburg nearly fifty years +ago. + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF THE FANTASTIC STORY PUBLISHED +IN RUSSIA IN 1872, CONTAINING THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE PROTOCOLS IN THE +FORM OF FICTION.] + +[Transliteration: +EVREJSKOE KLADBISHHE V PRAGE + +i + +SOVET PREDSTAVITELEJ + +DVENADCATI KOLEN IZRAILEVYH. + + * * * * * + +S.-PETERBURG. +TIPOGRAFIJA TOVARISHHESTVA "OBSHHESTVENNAJA POL'ZA", + +po mojke, u kruglago rynka, N 5. + +1872. +] + +_Translation of Title Page_ + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + And + THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES + Of The Twelve Tribes of Israel + + ST. PETERSBURG +Printed by the Association "Obschestvenaya Polza" + On the Moika, at the Round Market, No. 5 + 1872 + +[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF THE FOREWORD TO THE STORY PUBLISHED IN 1872, +SHOWING THAT THE AUTHOR REGARDED IT AS A "LEGENDARY STORY," COLORED BY +THE AUTHOR'S "FANTASTIC IMAGINATION."] + +[Transliteration: +PREDISLOVIE. + +Opisanie evrejskago kladbishha v Prage i legendarnyj +razskaz o sobranii predstavitelej dvenadcati +izrail'skih kolen zaimstvovany iz istoriko-politicheskago +romana Sera Dzhona Redkliffa "Do Sedana", +pomeshhennago v zhurnale, izdavaemom Nikolaem +Stepanovichem L'vovym. + +Soderzhanie legendy ne est' vymysel odnogo Redkliffa; +skoree Redkliff, s svojstvennym emu fantasticheskim +voobrazheniem, sobral chasti v odno +celoe i okrasil vse poeticheskimi kraskami, porazhajushhimi, +mozhet byt', chrezmernoju jarkostiju, no +tem ne menee predstavljajushhimi interes. + + * * * * * + +Dozvoleno cenzuroju, S.-Peterburg, 17-go maja 1872 goda. +] + + + + +_(Translation)_ + +FOREWORD + + +"The description of the Jewish cemetery in Prague and the legendary +story of the meeting of the representatives of the twelve tribes of +Israel are borrowed from the historico-political novel by Sir John +Radcliff, 'To Sedan,' published in the magazine edited by Nicholas +Stepanovitch Lvoff. + +"The contents of the legend are not the invention of Radcliff himself; +rather Radcliff, with his characteristic fantastic imagination, +collected various parts into one whole and painted all with poetic +colors, which strike one perhaps by their excessive gaudiness, but which +are nevertheless interesting." + + * * * * * + +Passed by the Censor, St. Petersburg, May 17, 1872 + +This product of "Radcliff's fantastic imagination," the work of one +experienced in the perpetration of forgeries, will now be permitted to +tell its own story. It requires no commentary. It clearly foreshadows +the protocols, with all its accompaniment of melodrama, not even +omitting the Devil, himself. + + THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE + + and + + The Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel + + + "The Jewish quarter of Prague represents a remarkable labyrinth of + crooked and narrow streets; it is situated in the outskirts of + Prague which witnessed numerous bloody episodes of Bohemian and + German history. The dwellers of the dirty and dilapidated houses of + this quarter are engaged in petty trading and profiteering in + their own as well as in other parts of the city. Prague is the only + city in Germany where the Jews live entirely isolated from the + nation whose name they have taken in order to avail themselves of + the privileges of the city population and to exploit it for their + own purposes. The Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the + rag-fair in Vienna and the Temple in Paris. In these places deals + amounting to thousands are transacted daily. + + "If you take a few steps along this dirty, foul market-place, you + will suddenly come upon an old, high, decayed wall which surrounds + a space of from two to three acres. Elder-trees and other wild + shrubbery wind around this wall. Old Jewish houses are crowded all + along near this wall, threatened with destruction at any moment. + The strange circle formed by this wall has an unwelcome, puzzling + appearance. + + "This is the city of the dead--the renowned Prague cemetery. + + "In this abode of rest may be seen the spirit of the nation, whose + bones found shelter here after long wandering,--here is stamped all + its history, full of sufferings, struggles and resistance. + + "It seems as though at any moment these tombs, overgrown with + shrubbery, are ready to open, these stones growing for thousands of + years are ready to raise themselves, and to let out into the world + the restless wanderer with a pack upon his shoulder, with a staff + in his hand, in order to go again to strange peoples,--to cheat and + combat them and to seek a new Canaan--his dominion! The Jewish + cemetery in Prague is the very oldest cemetery known. It was closed + by order of the government a hundred years ago. For foreigners it + is a historical landmark; for the Jews it is a sacred place. The + impression of this deserted spot is intensified by its + surroundings. Amidst the closely crowded tombs and monuments, + overgrown with moss, only a narrow passage remains which is almost + entirely covered with shrubbery of thorn-bushes and mat-weed. + + "During the inspection, the watchman will tell the visitor the + history of the death of Rabbi Ben Manasseh, the great conqueror of + death, and Rabbi Loewe, the most learned Rabbi of the 17th century; + he will speak of Simon the Just and of the Polish princess Anna + Shmiless. He will then lead the visitor to the monument of Anna + Kohn on which can be read the mysterious figure 606, which shows + that the Jews, more than twelve hundred years ago, had buried + their dead here, in the legendary times of Lyubush and her + daughters. + + "If we are not to believe this figure, we must nevertheless agree + with the opinion of the Jews that this is the oldest settlement and + the first Jewish community in Europe. + + "Silently the Jewish guide and the curious foreigner go by one + place where under an old lilac bush a heap of stone stands out, and + when the foreigner asks, 'What is this?' the guide gives an evasive + answer---- + + "'Beth Chaim--the house of life.' Thus is the cemetery called. Yes, + indeed, this place of rest is a house of life, for from here is + given the mysterious impulse which makes the exiles masters of the + earth and tyrants of nations,--the impulse which directs the golden + calf to the chosen tribe. + + "The Jewish town has assumed a holiday aspect. The stands of the + petty retailers have disappeared; Jewish boys and girls were + strolling about in their holiday attire. The houses and windows + were adorned with green branches. On the old benches sat men, + talking seriously; in the alleys youths were chatting. From time to + time men and women in their best Sabbath clothes were going to the + synagogue, carrying prayer books in their hands; while poor + Christian women whom need had forced to work in this quarter were + running with keys and dishes in order to prepare for the feast. + + "It was the last day of the Feast of Booths, the day of Assembly, + and dusk was gathering over the narrow streets, while the Christian + part of the city was still brightly illumined by the last rays of + the setting sun. Two men (the older wore a black silk mantle, with + long earlocks, which showed that he was a Polish Jew; the other was + middle aged, in modern clothes, with diamond studs in his shirt and + a heavy golden chain on his vest) walked along the narrow streets, + without paying any attention to the crowd. + + "The younger seemed to be the guide. Having come with his companion + to the little house where the watchman of the cemetery lived, he + knocked at the closed door, through a crevice of which the bright + light of wax candles was seen, showing the watchman's holiday mood. + It was a good summer--a large number of foreigners had visited the + cemetery and were generous in their gifts. + + "In the doorway appeared the thin face of the watchman, whose + short-sighted eyes began to look fixedly into the darkness. + + "'Come out into the street, Joel, somebody wants to talk to you!' + + "'O, God of Justice,' said the watchman with amazement, as he came + out of the door,--'One of the trustees! What is your pleasure to + command me?' + + "'This Rabbi desires to make a brief prayer in the cemetery; he is + leaving to-morrow morning by train.' + + "'In the cemetery? This evening? But you know yourself, Mr. Banker, + that I am forbidden to open the gates after sunset, and to-night is + also the holy Sabbath.' + + "'First of all, there is no need for you to shout here about my + calling,' replied the banker, displeased. 'Every Jewish rag-picker + will know that banker Rosenberg was here to see you. As for the + permit to open the gates, I myself, as a trustee, authorize you to + do it. I will wait here until he has completed his prayer. The + company in your house must not know what we are doing here. Arrange + it so that the curious crowd will not rush in there.' + + "The watchman disappeared in the house, but soon returned with a + bunch of keys and opened the gates of the cemetery. He took a + lantern along and was about to light it. + + "'Don't!' said the Rabbi in a low voice. 'I don't need any light. + Lock the gates from the inside!' + + "'But, Mr. von Rosenberg----' + + "'Lock it, I say!' + + "The watchman obeyed. + + "'Now lead me to the grave of the holy Rabbi Simeon-ben-Yehudah!' + + "'Hold on to my coat, esteemed sir,' said the watchman. 'It is dark + and you may stumble over the old graves.' + + "'I can see better at night than in the daytime, my son!' answered + the learned Polish Jew. + + "'Here is the grave!' + + "The old Rabbi reverently leaned over the tombstone. The watchman + heard him pronounce a prayer in Jewish. He used so many words of + ancient Hebrew, or some other words of a language he did not + understand, that he knew only a few separate expressions, although + he himself had been in the past a teacher at the Bohemian + community. + + "Having completed his prayer, the stranger turned to the watchman + of the cemetery: + + "'When you accepted the position from your predecessor, did he not + give you certain instructions?' + + "'Me?' + + "'Yes, you! It was so from the day the first person was buried in + this place.' + + "'Well, and what if he did give such instructions,--how does that + concern you? This the first time I am asked about this matter since + I am employed here.' + + "'Because this happens once in a hundred years, and human life + rarely lasts as long as that.' + + "'I see that you know about it, Rabbi,' said the frightened + watchman. 'But I can obey you only if you mention the word which + was given to me by my predecessor, because I took a sacred oath on + the Bible.' + + "The Polish Jew bent down and slowly pronounced a word of seven + syllables. + + "The watchman bowed respectfully. + + "'You are the Rabbi!' he said. 'All will be done as you command!' + + "'You will send away the friends who are feasting in your house + before the clock strikes eleven. At the first stroke you will open + the gates of the cemetery, and at the last stroke you will get into + your house, lock the doors and windows, lie down in your bed and + turn into a corpse together with the members of your + household,--into a corpse that sees and hears nothing.' + + "'I will neither look nor listen.' + + "'The angel of death will leave your soul in your body and will + force you to wander about among the graves to the end of time if + you do not carry out my orders correctly. Now go, and remember that + by virtue of your position you are the servant of the great + Jerusalem synagogue. I need not tell you that you should not say + anything to that vain, worldly man who brought me here.' + + "Both returned to the gates, near which the banker was still on + guard. + + "'Well,' he said, 'your desire is fulfilled, Rabbi, and you may + inform my friend in Warsaw that Rosenberg and Son are always ready + to do a favor to a guest recommended by such a personage. Now let + us go home; my wife is waiting for us.' + + "'Let us go, my son,' replied the Rabbi. 'But relieve me of + worldly pleasures. I shall spend the night in prayer!' + + "The banker shrugged his shoulders and gave the watchman a gold + coin. + + "'Joel,' he said in a low voice, 'the other trustees of the + community must not know about this violation of the rule.' + + "The watchman nodded, and the companion again disappeared in the + dark streets, which had already become deserted, while in the + houses people talked merrily and the sounds of holiday festivities + were heard. + + "How poor, dirty and dark these little houses looked from outside! + But it was quite different within! In the rear rooms of many of + these houses the bright light of numerous wax candles was reflected + in the splendid high mirrors, in expensive dishes and precious + rugs. Girls and women, who in the morning perhaps walked with trays + in their hands, now were seated at the tables in heavy silk gowns + with golden chains and bracelets; their jewels and diamonds were + glittering. + + * * * * * + + "The clock in the town-hall tower struck ten. In the chapel, near + the statue of St. Nepomucenus, upon a stone bench, sat a + large-sized man, with the pale serious face of Germanic type. Every + physiognomist, looking at him, would have said that this man had + devoted his youth to serious scientific work and that he had spent + many sleepless nights over books. + + "The clock had just struck ten when upon the bridge appeared a man + in a light summer coat, of about the same age as the young + scientist. His face was pale, of waxen color, without the slightest + natural red in his cheeks; his particularly prominent nose + indicated his Jewish extraction; his forehead was high and large, + his head was strongly developed. He walked straight over to the man + who was waiting and who quickly arose. + + "'Good evening. I see you have received my letter. Have you it with + you?' + + "'Yes, I know it by heart, I have read it so many times. "My + friend," it is written there, "I have promised to give you the key + to the Caballah, if I ever find the opportunity to do so. Although + I am not always in the habit of fulfilling my vows, I am ready to + fulfil this one, if you will wait for me in the evening of October + 8, in Prague, on the old Moldau bridge, under the statue of + Nepomucenus." Then follows your name.' + + "'Yes, that is correct. Have you not yet given up your desire?' + + "'Less than ever before! You would render science an invaluable + service.' + + "'Listen, doctor, bend down a little over the rail; that of which + we speak must not be heard even by the waves of the Moldau, if we + wish to remain alive.' + + "The young scientist looked in astonishment at his comrade, but did + as he desired. + + "'Three years ago, in Rome, when I promised to acquaint you with + the mysteries of the Caballah, I did it more for the sake of + boasting of a power and authority which, in reality, I did not + possess. Although I had studied for some time the traditions of my + nation, rather out of curiosity than because of the love of + knowledge, I knew very well that I could hardly penetrate the + corridor of those mysteries which I am still regarding as the + sophistry and roguishness of exalted minds, invented for the + purpose of holding fools in fear and subordination. But several + accidental discoveries, made by me since then, have changed my + views and have aroused in me a sense of curiosity. + + "'You know, notwithstanding our brief acquaintance, that I am not + the type of man who would abandon a clue or a conceived plan. What + has caused me to make you my companion in satisfying my + curiosity--that does not concern you. It is enough that now we have + an opportunity to satisfy our mutual desire, and all depends on + whether you will agree to accept the conditions upon which I can + make you a partner in my investigation.' + + "'If these are not against honor and conscience.' + + "'In this respect you have nothing to risk, you are rather risking + something else--your life. Do you feel that you are capable of + facing a serious danger?' + + "'For the sake of science, yes!' + + "'Very well, in that case I must tell you that I will lead you to a + place which we will not leave alive, if our presence is discovered. + The slightest suspicion that we were uninvited witnesses of the + secret will bring upon us persecution which will kill us sooner or + later.' + + "'You are whetting my curiosity, signor!' + + "'That is all I wanted to tell you. The other thing--you know that + I am a Jew by birth. Although the Jews have driven me from their + midst and cursed me according to their custom and traditions + because I adopted Christianity,--still I have my own reasons for + stipulating a condition--your word of honor that you will be silent + about all you will see and hear, until I authorize you to speak.' + + "'I swear by my honor.' + + "'Very well. You will recall in your investigations of the Caballah + that in the mysterious books mention is made of a meeting of the + heads or chosen ones of the nation,--a meeting which takes place + from time to time?' + + "'Yes, in the Yezire it is said very definitely, and if I + understood correctly, such meetings take place every hundred + years.' + + "'Yes. The last meeting took place in 1760 and you recall that + shortly afterward the movement of Judaism started. It is now 1787 + years since the destruction of Jerusalem and this year is + designated for a meeting of the Cabalistic Sanhedrin. This is the + day of the meeting; the place is this city. I want to be present at + this meeting in spite of the danger and am ready to take you along + with me.' + + "'But will it not be dishonest to listen, will it not be an + unlawful interference with other people's secrets?' + + "'Per Bacco! as we Italians say; with such hesitations you must + abandon once for all the idea of fulfilling your desire. Or do you + think that the people who guard the secret of the Caballah will + bring it to you on a tray? As far as I am concerned, I shall + discover the secret, at any cost!' + + "After reflecting a few minutes, the scientist came to a decision. + + "'I shall go with you, come what may!' + + "'Very well. Now we have agreed. Let us go,--there is no time to + lose.'" + + * * * * * + + "The tower clock of the town-hall struck eleven. At the first + stroke a key clicked in the lock of the cemetery gates. Then + followed profound silence which indicated that the cemetery was + open. The lights in the Jewish houses were gradually dying out, and + at the same time the sounds of the merry feasting also subsided. + + "Mysterious silence reigned in that terrible place. + + "The gates creaked softly; the rustling of long coats was heard, + touching the stones and shrubbery; finally a vague white figure + appeared and slipped by like a shadow along the pathways. + + "This figure knelt before one of the tombstones; three times it + touched the stone with its forehead and softly whispered a prayer. + + "Along the path leading from the gates came an old man, bent, + limping, sighing and coughing. He came over to the ancient + tombstone, and lowered himself on his knees near the white figure + that had entered before him, and he, too, whispered a prayer. + + "Then heavy footsteps were heard, and a tall, impressive figure + appeared on the road, clad in a white mantle, and he, too, fell + down on his knees, as though unwillingly, in front of the + tombstone. + + "Thirteen times this was repeated. Thirteen old men came over to + the tombstone. The doctor counted them, but he could not understand + whether they were alive or dead. A shiver crept down his back, his + heart began to beat faster from fright. He involuntarily recalled + the terrible legend of the Day of Atonement in the tenth month, + Tishri, in the synagogue of Posen when, during the prayer of Kol + Nidrei, the congregation kept growing larger and larger; unknown + people, pushing one another, wrapped in prayer shawls, came in, one + hundred after another, until the terrified Rabbi lifted his hand as + if to curse and exclaimed: 'He who has flesh in his cheeks, let him + throw off the prayer shawl!' Hundreds remained covered, and when + the prayer shawls were torn away from them, all saw the skulls of + the dead who had come out of the graves to celebrate the Day of + Atonement with the rest of the congregation. + + "As there, it seemed to him that the prayer shawls had fallen off + the heads of the praying old men, and a row of dead skulls + appeared. At that moment the clock struck twelve. A sharp metallic + sound rang out on the grave, after which a blue flame appeared and + illumined the thirteen kneeling figures. + + "'I greet you, Roshe beth Aboth (heads) of the twelve tribes of + Israel,' announced a dull voice. + + "'We greet you, son of the accursed.' + + "'A hundred years have already passed. Where have the Nesiyim + (princes of the tribes) come from?' + + "'From the lands where the nation of Adonai has been scattered by + the orders of our forefathers.' + + "'Are you ready to fulfil the promise during the coming century?' + + "'We are ready!' + + "'Then say, whose representatives are you, and where do you come + from? Tribe of Judah?' + + "'From Amsterdam,' replied a strong, loud voice. + + "'Tribe of Benjamin?' + + "'Toledo!' came the dull answer. + + "'Tribe of Levi?' + + "'Worms!' + + "'Tribe of Manasseh?' + + "'Budapest!' + + "'Tribe of Gad?' + + "'Cracow!' + + "'Tribe of Simeon?' + + "'Rome!' + + "'Tribe of Zebulun?' + + "'Paris!' + + "'Tribe of Dan?' + + "'Constantinople!' + + "'Tribe of Asher?' + + "'London!' + + "'Tribe of Issachar?' + + "The answer came in a faint voice and could not be heard + distinctly. + + "'Tribe of Naphtali?' + + "'Prague!' + + "'And I am the representative of the unfortunate and exiles,' said + the man who asked the questions in a dull voice. 'I am myself + wandering about all over the world in order that I may unite you + for the sake of the cause of redemption which has been promised to + the seed of Abraham and which was taken from them by the sons of + him who was crucified! Who is here of the house of Aaron, let him + rise, scrutinize the heads of the tribes and gather the council.' + + "The man who was the first to arrive rose and then seated himself + upon the tombstone. One by one the others came over to him and + whispered in his ear a seven-syllabled word, and each time he + nodded in approval. After that all returned to their former + places. 'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'our fathers formed a union + which compels all those chosen as representatives of the tribes to + gather every hundred years at the grave of the great teacher of + Caballah whose doctrines give the chosen ones power on earth and + supremacy over all the descendants of Ishmael. Eighteen hundred + years the struggle has been conducted by the nation of Israel for + supremacy which was promised to Abraham and which was taken away + from us by the Cross. Trampled under foot by our enemies, under the + terror of death and all kinds of humiliation and violence, the + nation of Israel, nevertheless, has not abandoned this struggle, + and as they are scattered all over the earth, the whole earth must + belong to them! Our learned men are conducting this struggle for + hundreds of years; the nation is gradually rising from its fall; + its power is growing and spreading. To us belongs the earthly god, + which was made for us with such sorrow by Aaron in the desert ... + the Golden Calf which the backsliders are worshipping!' + + "'We hear!' they whispered on all sides. + + "'When all the gold on earth will be ours, the power will go over + to us. Then will be fulfilled the promise made to Abraham. Gold is + the ruler of the earth. Gold is power, reward, pleasure ... all + that human beings fear and desire. This is the mystery of the + Caballa ... the teachings concerning the spirit which rules the + world, and about the future! Eighteen centuries we have belonged to + our enemies. The future belongs to us. For the fifth time in the + course of the thousand-year-old struggle to which we have + consecrated ourselves, those who know of the existence of the + secret union have gathered here to take counsel as to the means + which are afforded us by the sins of our enemies, and each time, + for five hundreds years, a new Sanhedrim, ordered the fiercest + struggle. But, excepting Russia, not a single century has been + crowned with such success as this one. Therefore we may think that + the time for which we are striving is near, and we may say, "The + Future is ours!"' + + "'Yes, if persecutions against the Jews will not take place in the + meantime!' pointed out one of the men with a bitter smile. + + "'The dark days of such a danger are passed. The success of + so-called civilization among the Christian nations may serve as the + best protection for our endeavors. Before listening to the + individual opinions, let us examine the material means, the pure + capital possessed by the nation of Israel....' + + "'But against the three and a half million Jews with their money + there are 265 million enemies in Europe, or rather 500 million + fists,' remarked one of these present. + + "'The head will protect us against the fists, as in the past. Labor + is the slave of speculation, and violence is the slave of wisdom. + Who will deny that cunning is the distinctive trait of our nation? + + "'Our nation is ostentatious and greedy, arrogant and + pleasure-loving. + + "'Where there is light there is also shadow. It is not in vain that + Adonai our God gave his chosen people the tenacity of a snake, the + cunning of a fox, the look of a falcon, the memory of a dog, the + diligence of an ant, and the sociability of a beaver. We were in + captivity on the rivers of Babylon, and have become powerful! Our + temple was destroyed, but we have built a thousand new temples! For + eighteen hundreds years we were slaves; now we have grown head and + shoulders above all other nations.' + + "All the twelve pronounced the concluding words-- + + "'Brethren,' said the Levite, 'the time has come when, in + accordance with the laws of the founder of our union, we must + determine ways and means by which the Jews shall attain their goal + as soon as possible; our experience of a hundred years will help us + in this. We who know must direct and guide the masses which are + blind. We, the builders, will combine the dead stones into a pillar + which must reach the sky.' + + "'The Tower of Babel was destroyed by the hand of Him whose name I + dare not pronounce,' said the sceptic. + + "'Our structure rests upon the foundation of the promise made to + Abraham. It is your turn to speak, representative of the tribe of + Reuben! By what means will the Jewish nation achieve power and + supremacy over all other nations on earth?' + + "A shrill, unpleasant voice then spoke: + + "'All the princes and the lands of Europe are at present in debt. + The stock exchange regulates these debts. But such things are done + only by movable capital; therefore all the movable capital must go + over to the hands of the Jews. The foundation for this is already + laid, judging from what we have heard here. If we will be supreme + in the stock exchange, we will attain the same supremacy in the + governments. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate loans in order + to get them into our hands all the more. Wherever possible, we must + take in exchange for capital, mortgages on railroads, taxes, mines, + regalia and domains. Furthermore, the stock exchange is a means for + the transfer of the belongings of the small people to the hands of + the capitalists, by drawing them into stock gambling. Transactions + in securities are a splendid invention of our nation. Although the + stock exchange members cheat one another sometimes, it is the + outsider who always pays in the end.' + + "The voice which resounded on the Paris Bourse became silent. + + "'Do the _zekenim_ agree with the opinion of our brother?' asked + the Levite. + + "A whisper of approbation was the answer to this question. + + "'Representative of the tribe of Simeon, it is your turn now!' + + "A serious, dull voice resounded after this order. Each word was + pronounced slowly and thoughtfully: + + "'Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore, the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. It will not be hard to accomplish this, if + we acquire movable capital. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate + loans on land. Under the fear of scandal we will destroy land + wealth and minimize its importance. Ownership of land should be + mobilized, if lands are sold as other commodities. The more we help + in the breaking up of estates, the more easily will they fall into + our hands. Under the pretext of relieving the poor classes, it is + necessary to levy all taxes of states and communities on the land + owners. When the land is in our hands, the labor of the Christian + workers and farmers will give us a tenfold income.' + + "He who did not belong to any tribe laughed sneeringly. + + "'This advice is good, but not new. Ask in Paris and in Vienna, who + owns the houses there?' + + "A whisper of approbation was heard again. + + "'Tribe of Judah, your turn!' + + "The voice that resounded was marked with conviction and reminded + one of the sound of the Thaller. + + "'Industry, the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish + nation, must be paralyzed even as agriculture. The manufacturer + should be no better than an ordinary worker. The means to + accomplish this may be the unlimited freedom of trade. The + manufacturer will take the place of the artisan as he does not have + to work, only to speculate. The children of Israel can adapt + themselves to all branches of work. Their capital and dexterity + will be the substitute for right. Transforming the artisans into + our factory workers, we will be in a position to direct the masses + for our political purposes. Whoever resists this system will be + destroyed by competition. The senseless and ungrateful masses will + not support the artisans in this struggle, if commodities are + reduced in price to a certain extent. + + "A noisy approbation of the new Sanhedrin showed that the soundness + of this advice had long been appreciated and even applied in + practice. + + "'Now it is my turn,' said the representative of Levi--'I speak in + the name of the tribe of Aaron. The natural enemy of the Jews is + the Christian church. Therefore we must try to humiliate it, we + must instill into it free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts. + Therefore we will, first of all, start a war on the clergy, we will + try to arouse suspicion against it and ridicule it. The main pillar + of the church is the school. Therefore we must gain influence over + the young. Under the guise of progress and the equal rights of all + religions, we will destroy the study of religion in Christian + schools. Then the Jews may become teachers in all schools; then + religion will be taught at home. And as there is little time left + for that, the spirit of religion will gradually decline, and + eventually it will be destroyed altogether. Agitation for the + appropriation of property belonging to the churches and schools, + the transfer of church property to the state, or (what is the same) + into the hands of the Jews, will be our reward!' + + "Again approbation followed the words of the man who had spoken. + Nobody contradicted him and he announced: + + "'Representative of the tribe of Isaachar, it is your turn!' + + "Now an old, trembling voice spoke: + + "'Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force. The + coarse military art is not for the sons of Israel. Not everyone can + be a Gideon! The army is for the defense of the throne and the + school of narrow patriotism. Not the sword, but reason and money + must rule. Therefore at every opportune instance, it is necessary + to help the downfall of the military class, to arouse suspicion in + the masses against it, and to incite animosity against one another. + It is enough for the soldiers to do police duty and to protect the + wealthy from those who have nothing.' + + "'The Lion of Judah has spoken,' said the stranger angrily. 'David + conquered Goliath. The nations will soon wear long coats instead of + military armour. A slap on the bourse will be equivalent to a lost + battle.' + + "It looked as though a storm was rising against this arrogant + sarcasm, but one word from the eldest restored them all to calm. + + "'This is the son of Baal! He may say whatever he pleases. But he + will do whatever is decided by the council of the tribes.' + + "'The tribe of Zebulun may speak!' + + "A dull voice, like a storm in the distance, said as follows: + + "'Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to + what is old. But our interest demands that we participate, or, + rather, direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that + ours is a time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the + amelioration of the material condition of the needy classes. But + for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals. + Capital is in the hands of the Jews. Therefore they must outwardly + take part in the movement and try to divert it from social and + political reforms. The masses themselves are blind and foolish, and + permit the shouters to rule over them. Who shouts more loudly and + more shrewdly than the Jews? Therefore our nation has been the + first on the platform, in the press, and in all Christian + communities! The more communities and meetings, the more + dissatisfaction and idleness. From this it follows inevitably that + the people grow poorer, that they become subjected to those who + have money, leading to the enrichment of the latter. Besides, every + movement makes us richer, for the smaller people are ruined and are + contracting debts. The unstability of the foundation increases our + power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + dissatisfaction, every revolution, increases our capital and brings + us nearer to our goal.' + + "This terrible speech was followed by prolonged silence. Every + member of this secret Sanhedrim seemed to be thinking of its + terrible meaning. The son of Baal again laughed hoarsely. + + "'Are you afraid of blood? It isn't yours.' + + "Then one member of the gathering expressed his approval, and all + others followed his example. + + "'Son of the tribe of Dan, your turn!' + + "The answer bore the stamp of a Jew of the lower order: + + "'Every business in which there is speculation and profit must be + in our hands. That is our natural right. First of all, we must get + control of the traffic in liquor, butter, wool, and bread. Then we + shall have in our hands agriculture, farming. We can prepare bread + everywhere, and if dissatisfaction and want should arise, we can + easily throw the blame on the government. Petty wares, which give a + great deal of trouble and yield very little profit, we can leave in + the hands of the Christians. Let them work hard and suffer as the + chosen people suffered for several centuries.' + + "This speech scarcely needed approval. The Levite called on the + next one. + + "'Tribe of Naphtali?' + + "The following words rang out shrilly and with assurance: + + "'All governmental positions should be open to us. Once this + principle is established, the cunning and flattery of the Jewish + employees will help them to penetrate even there, and they will + have real influence. I am speaking only of the posts which bring + honor, power, and pre-eminence. Positions which require work and + knowledge may remain for the Christians. Therefore the Jews may + neglect positions of secondary importance. Justice is very + important for us, the law is a great step forward. This occupation + is suited to the cunning and skill of our people and gives us + influence and power against our natural enemies. Why can't a Jew be + Minister of Education as he has already been more than once + Minister of Finance?' + + "'Remember the scaffold of Haman, the fate of Shushan and Leopold!' + said a warning voice. + + "'Why does the raven croak about the past which is so distant and + almost forgotten? More than one of our people has been a Minister + in France and respected by the King himself.' + + "Approval was expressed in a tone of satisfied pride; then the + orator continued: + + "'Our people must be among the legislators of the governments. The + laws of the goyim against the children of Israel must be abolished. + We will maintain the laws of our Fathers. We need no longer any + laws that would protect us. No. We must concern ourselves about + laws that will give us privileges. A mild law respecting + bankruptcy, promulgated in the interests of humanity, would be a + golden mountain in our hands. First of all we must see to it that + the law regarding usury is abolished in all countries under the + pretext that money would thereby become cheaper. Money is just such + a commodity as others, and the law should give us the right to + regulate its price according to our desire.' + + "'Now is the turn for the tribe of Benjamin.' + + "'What can I add to the counsel of such wise men? The Jew should + also make use of honors, and should be at the head of all + organizations that may give him honor without risks, and he should + engage in science and the arts which are more adapted to the + character of our people and which we can master more easily. We can + become good actors and philosophers, because there is room for + speculation in these domains. In the arts our people will look + after the reception and will burn incense to ourselves. In science + we will take up medicine and philosophy. These afford opportunities + for theories and speculation. A physician penetrates the secrets of + families and holds their lives in his hands.' + + "'Tribe of Asher, your turn!' + + "'We must demand free marriage between Jews and Christians. Israel + will only be the gainer, even though there be an admixture of + impure blood to a certain degree. Our sons and daughters will marry + into renowned and powerful Christian families. We give money and + thus have influence. The Christian relationship cannot have a bad + influence on us, while we can exert a strong influence over them. + That is one thing. Another thing is that we respect the Jewish + woman and we enjoy the forbidden pleasure with the women of our + enemies. We have money, and for money we can get everything. A Jew + must never make a daughter of his own race his mistress. If he + should desire to sin against the Seventh Commandment he should + content himself with Christian girls.' + + "'What is the use of employing the beautiful girls of the goyim in + our stores if not for this?' angrily interposed the representative + of the evil spirit. 'Whoever will not want to satisfy our desire + will get no work, consequently no bread. Go to the large cities and + you will see that they are not waiting for your wise men's orders. + Substitute a contract for sacrament in the marriage of Christians + and their wives and daughters will come to you still more readily.' + + "The terrible cynicism of these words, touching such a delicate + subject, must have produced a profound impression, especially since + the views of the ancient doctrines were so strict on the topic of + moral purity. + + "'What does the law say?' asked one of the twelve. + + "'For adultery with a woman of our own people--death; for seducing a + girl--a fine, if she was not betrothed; if she was betrothed--death. + But the law is not so rigorous with regard to one who lives with a + slave--her body belongs to her master.' + + "'Are the goyim better than our slaves?' + + "This explanation was followed by a whisper of approval. + + "'The tribe of Manasseh may speak now!' + + "The last of the orators lifted his hand and during his speech he + raised and lowered it, as if desiring thus to make a stronger + impression by his words. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, but + he spoke skilfully and with assurance. + + "'If gold is the first power in the world, the press is the second. + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press is + in our hands. Our people must direct the daily publications. We are + cunning, shrewd, and we possess money which we know how to utilize + for our purposes. We need great political newspapers which mold + public opinion--criticism, the literature of the streets and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect, and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us. Then, even though each individual + may be against us, the masses, in their stupidity, will always be + for us. With the press in our hands, we can turn wrong into right, + dishonesty into honesty. We can shake all foundations, and separate + families. We can destroy faith in all that our enemies, until now, + have believed. We can ruin credits and arouse passions. We can + declare war; we can award fame or disgrace. We can uplift or ruin + talent. + + "'When Israel shall have gold and the press in his hands, we will + be able to ask: "On what day will it please you to _put on Atarah_ + (crown) which belongs to us by right, to erect Shisse (?) and + extend the Shebet (sceptre) over the nations of the earth?"' + + "A noisy greeting followed these words and the agitated men who + listened hardly understood for some time what was being said at the + meeting. At last the voice of the Levite called upon all to be + silent. + + "'The Roshe-Bate-Aboth of the twelve tribes have uttered words of + wisdom. These words will be as pillars for the times to come, if + the son of him "who has not rest" will write these words upon his + memory and spread the seeds among the nation of Israel in order + that it may grow to be a mighty tree. They will be the sword with + which Israel will strike down his enemies. Our posterity must share + among themselves happiness, wealth and power as it shared + misfortune and dangers. They must help one another. Wherever one of + them places his foot, he must drag another--his brother--along with + him. If one of them is unfortunate, others must help him, if he but + lives according to the law of our nation. + + "'He who was in prison for ten years, may become a rich man to whom + princes will bow, if only our people will not forsake him. Where + everybody is against us, all will be for us. After forty years of + wandering in the desert, the hand of Jehovah brought us to power in + the land of Canaan; the same hand will lead us after forty-five + times forty years from our misfortune and miseries to rule over + lands which are forty-five times vaster than Canaan. If Israel + shall obey the decision here adopted by the Sanhedrin of the + Caballah, our grandchildren, coming a hundred years hence to the + grave of the founder of our union, will announce to him that they + have indeed become the princes of the world and that the promise + made to the nation of Israel has been fulfilled. Other nations will + become his slaves! Renew our oath, sons of the golden calf, and go + to all lands of the world.' + + "The blue flame flared up brightly upon the grave of the Rabbi; + each of the thirteen threw upon the tomb a stone which each carried + under his cloak. + + "It seemed to the doctor that on the top of the tombstone, in the + bluish flame, there appeared a monstrous golden figure of an + animal. + + "Then he heard the same metallic sound that he had heard when the + light first appeared. Then impenetrable darkness covered the + cemetery. + + "The white figures again slipped by among the tombstones. The gates + creaked softly. + + "The clock in the tower struck two past midnight. The last of the + mysterious visitors knocked at the window and a hoarse voice said + (as though the speaker knew that the watchman was not asleep): + + "'Close the house of life, watchman of those who are awaiting the + resurrection, and may your lips be sealed with the seal of Solomon + for a hundred years.' + + "The scholar still lay motionless; he was afraid to stir; all he + had heard had made upon him such a dreadful impression. + + "A noise near him indicated that his companion was rising. + + "'To concentrate in their hands all the capital of the nations of + all lands; to secure possession of all the land, railroads, mines, + houses; to be at the head of all organizations, to occupy the + highest governmental posts, to paralyze commerce and industry + everywhere, to seize the press, to direct legislation, public + opinion and national movements--and all for the purpose of + subjugating all nations on earth to their power! No! I shall + struggle against the golden calf and shall smash it to pieces as + Moses smashed it in the desert.' + + "'What we heard is a threat against all society. Here is my hand, I + will be your comrade in this struggle against the power of gold.' + + "The Italian shook his head, but accepted the extended hand. 'No,' + he said, 'I want to act alone. There is a force which, if properly + directed, is not weaker than gold. That force is poverty and her + companion, labor. I shall call them out and lead them into battle. + Proud Israel! Beware! I shall put against you the _Artel_ (union) + and Labor.' + + "'And I,' said the scholar, with animation, 'all that is lofty and + noble,--science, idealism, faith--I shall lead these against this + materialism.' + + "His comrade laughed: + + "'Your ideals will crumble as clay striking against metal. Only the + forces of poverty and hunger can be the fighters that will defeat + the golden calf. Our ways part here; you will go one way, and I + another. My promise is fulfilled; but remember your vow--be silent + as to all that you have heard and seen here!'" + +This is the weird, fantastic "thriller" from which sprang the Protocols. +It is the first stage. According to this story not only were there +present at a secret meeting in the Prague Cemetery, the representatives +of the twelve tribes of Israel, ten of which totally disappeared nearly +twenty-five centuries ago, but also the son of "the accursed one," the +Devil, was there, making side-remarks from time to time. His assigned +function was that of spreading the decisions of the Wise Men of Zion +among the Jews in order that they conquer the world. + +Dr. Herman L. Strack, professor of theology at the University of Berlin, +one of the foremost Christian authorities on theological and religious +literature, commenting on this Goedsche-Retcliffe concoction, says that +this tale of the ghostly convocation in the Jewish cemetery at Prague, +discloses no real knowledge of Judaism, that the reference to mixed +marriages indicates gross ignorance of actual Jewish thought, and that +the Hebrew words supposed to have been employed by the spokesmen for the +various tribes appear to have been borrowed from a dictionary. He also +points to Goedsche-Retcliffe's story and the "Rabbi's Speech" about to +be mentioned as the sources of the Protocols. + + + + +CHAPTER THREE + +FICTION FORGED INTO "FACT" + +The Lie in its Second Stage--The Tale Becomes "Fact"--The "Rabbi's" +Speech--Its Authenticity Vouched for by "Retcliffe"--An Illuminating +Footnote--A Dedication to the Russian "Black Hundreds"--The Imaginary +"Speech" Bears Witness to Authenticity of "Protocols," Themselves Based +on "Speech"--Three Stages of the Lie. + + +A number of years after this Russian translation of the +Goedsche-Retcliffe story appeared, Sir John Retcliffe, alias Goedsche, +deeming it important for his purpose of adding fuel to the flame of +anti-semitism that had been lighted in Germany, undertook to convert +this work of fiction, this offspring of his imagination, into a +statement of fact. This led him to adopt the simple device of +consolidating into one continuous speech the dialogue contained in his +shilling shocker, and putting the speech into the mouth of an imaginary +Rabbi in such a way as to make it appear to be an address delivered by +him to a secret convocation of Jews. And the very man who had invented +the speeches set down in his work of fiction twenty years before, now +vouched for the authenticity of the obviously fabricated speech which he +attributed to a Rabbi who had his birth in the contorted mind of this +notorious forger. + +A translation from the Russian of the apocryphal "Rabbi's Speech," with +the introductory note as published in Russia by G. Butmi, in 1907, in a +book entitled "The Enemy of the Human Race," dedicated by the author to +the Black Hundreds, will now be laid before the reader. A comparison of +it, with the scene in the cemetery, will at once demonstrate the +identity of authorship. Below is a facsimile of the title page of this +book, a copy of which is in the Russian collection of the Library of +Congress, in Washington, D. C. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic] + +[Transliteration: +G. BUTMI. + +OBLICHITEL'NYJA RECHI. + + +VRAGI + +RODA CHELOVECHESKAGO. + +POSVJASHHAETSJA SOJUZU RUSSKAGO NARODA. + +Chetvertoe, obrabotannoe i dopolnennoe izdanie. + + +S.-PETERBURG. + +Tip. Uchilishha Gluhonemyh Gorohovaja, 18. + +1907. +] + + +THE RABBI'S SPEECH + +To the Jewish People.[*] + +[Footnote *: NOTE. (Toward the end of the last century there appeared a +book in London by Retcliffe entitled "A Review of Political and +Historical Events During the Past Ten Years." This work was translated +into French. The French periodical press, without waiting for the +complete translation of the book, reproduced certain parts of it because +they were of special interest. Thus the French newspapers and magazines +published translations from the English of an intensely interesting +speech, most edifying for Russia (from the Hebrew), delivered by one of +the Rabbis, THE AUTHENTICITY OF WHICH SPEECH IS VOUCHED FOR BY THE +ABOVE-MENTIONED AUTHOR. This inimitable gem must in the eyes of Russians +assume all the more importance since it is brought out by that "highly +civilized" humane and practical country, England, which has given +protection to the Russian Jews against the unsuccessfully invented +persecutions on the part of the Russian government and people. This +monstrous document was sent at the time in printed form, in the French +language, to the editorial office of the Odessa newspaper "Novorosisk +Telegraph" for those who might want to examine the accuracy of the +translation published in No. 4996 of that newspaper, dated January 15, +1891, and reprinted in No. 21 of the Petersburg newspaper "Znamya," +dated January 22, 1904. THE SPEECH RELATES TO THE TIME OF THE SANHEDRIN +OF 1869.)] + +[Paragraphs which are indented and parts in italics were omitted in the +Butmi version, but are given in the French publication "Le Peril Judeo +Maconnique--I. Les Protocols des Sages de Zion," by Jouin, Paris, 1920.] + + "Our fathers ordained the chosen ones in Israel to gather, without + fail, once every century, at the grave of our great Master Caleb, + the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, whose great knowledge is + imparted to the elect of each generation to gain the power over the + whole world and authority over all the descendants of Israel.... + + "It is already eighteen centuries that the war of Israel is + being waged with the power which had been promised to Abraham + but which had been snatched away from him by the _Cross_. + Trampled under foot, humiliated by his enemies, ceaselessly + under threats of death, of persecution, of rapine and violence + of every sort, Israel has not succumbed; and if he is + dispersed over the whole world it is because the whole world + should belong to him. + + "It has been for a few [eighteen] centuries now that our learned + men have been fighting against the Cross with courage and + persistence which nothing can break. Our people is rising gradually + and, with each day, its forces are growing. _It is to us that this + God of the day belongs, which was erected by Aaron in the + wilderness, this golden calf, this universal deity of the epoch._ + + "When we become, at last, the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the true power will practically be transferred to + our hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. + _Gold--is the greatest power on earth; it is might, reward, the + instrument of every authority, it is all man, both fears and + desires. This is the sole mystery, the most profound science of + that spirit with the aid of which the entire world is ruled._ This + is what the future holds in store. Eighteen centuries have belonged + to our enemies; this century and the following must belong to us, + the People of Israel, and will be ours, without fail. Here, for the + tenth time during a thousand years of cruel and incessant struggle + with our enemies, have assembled at this cemetery; at the grave of + the great Master, Caleb, the sainted Rabbi Simeon Ben Judah, the + elect of each of the tribes of the Israelite people, in order to + discuss and agree upon, the means of making use, in the interests + of our cause, of all the tremendous mistakes and errors, which our + enemies--the Christians--have not ceased to commit. Every time the + new Sanhedrin (assembly) proclaimed and preached merciless warfare + against our enemies, but not once during the past centuries did our + forefathers succeed in concentrating in our hands such an enormous + quantity of gold [_and consequently of power_] as the nineteenth + century has given us. We are therefore able, without any senseless + illusions, to flatter ourselves with the hope of attaining our goal + before long, and we can look forward with assurance into the very + eyes of the future. + + "Persecutions and insults,--these sombre and tortuous times, which + the people of Israel bore with heroic patience,--have fortunately + come to an end, owing to the progress of civilization among the + Christians, and this progress is the best shield under which we can + hide and scheme, in order that we may cover quickly and decisively + the last leg of that distance which divides us from our supreme + aim. Let us cast a cursory glance at the economic situation of + Europe and analyze the resources which fell to the Israelites from + the beginning of the present century, owing to the concentration in + their hands of the tremendous capital which is in their possession + at the present time. It turns out that in Paris, London, Vienna, + Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, etc. [_and in all + lands--the Rothschilds_], that everywhere, the Israelites are the + masters of the financial situation, being as they are possessors of + many billions, not to mention localities of the second and third + class where all the financial funds are in their hands and not + mentioning that, without their direct influence, no financial + operation, no work of any importance, could be carried out anywhere + at any time. At present, all the emperors, kings and ruling princes + are burdened with tremendous debts incurred in order to be able to + maintain numerous standing armies [_to sustain their tottering + thrones_]. The Bourse quotes and regulates these moneys, and we are + the full masters of the Bourse in all the centres of the globe. The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other (real property) including duties + and taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital + lent by us to the various States. + + "Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a + country's wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave + for us even a broader way to honors and will strengthen our + influence (over the highest officials of the country). From this + follows, that our efforts will be directed towards inducing our + brethren in Israel to make large agricultural purchases. We must, + therefore, do our utmost to break up large estates into small + parcels, in order to be able to purchase them in the easiest and + quickest way. Under the pretext of trying to help the working + classes, it is necessary to oppress the large landowners with + taxation in all its severity. When these possessions will thus + gradually be transferred into our hands, the whole labor of the + Christian proletariat will become for us a new source of tremendous + profits. _Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous + enemies, we must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in + order to accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to + implant in the Christian intellectual class ideas of atheism, + scepticism, dissension and to call forth religious disputes among + the newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom._ + + "Logically, we must begin by depreciating the ministers of + this religion. Let us declare open war on them, let us provoke + suspicions on their devotion, on their private conduct, and by + ridicule and persiflage we shall be right in the consideration + attached to the state and the costume of the priest. + + "Every war, every revolution, every political and religious + upheaval brings nearer the moment when we shall attain the great + end for which we have been striving so long. Commerce and + speculation--these branches, most plentiful in their fruits,--must + never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the Israelites. + + "... and once these branches have become identified with us, + we shall, through the flattery and perspicacity of our + executives, know how to penetrate to the prime source of true + influence and power. It is understood that we are concerned + only with those pursuits that entail honors, power or + privileges, for all those that require knowledge, labor or + disagreeable conditions, these can and should be left to the + Christians. The magistrature is an institution of prime + importance for us. The legal profession develops most the + faculty of civilization and initiates one furthest in the + affairs of our natural enemies, the Christians, and it is + through it that we can subject them to our mercy. Why should + not the Jews become Ministers of Instruction when they have so + often been Ministers of Finance? The Jews must also aspire to + the rank of legislators with the object of abrogating the laws + made by the Goim, faithless sinners, against the sons of + Israel, the true believers, in their invariable attachment to + the holy laws of Abraham. + + "Moreover, on this point, our plan is nearing the most + complete realization, for progress has nearly everywhere + recognized and accorded to us the same civic rights as to + Christians, but that which it is of importance to obtain, that + which must be the object of our ceaseless efforts, is a law + less severe on bankruptcy. We shall make of it a gold mine + more rich than were ever the mines of California. + + "With this object in view the people of Israel must direct its + ambition towards those high offices of authority which have + the power to distribute honors and esteem. The most assured + way of attaining such offices is to have weight and importance + in the various industrial enterprises, financial and + commercial operations, and to be on guard for all pitfalls and + temptations which may lead to the prosecution of the sons of + Israel in the country's courts. + + "Our people, in deciding upon one operation or another, must + be guided by wisdom and tact, which are the distinguishing + traits of its natural gifts. We must not remain passive to + anything that may aid us in gaining a place of honor in + society; philosophy, medicine, law, political economy--in other + words, all branches of science, art, literature--represent a + wide field where even our smallest successes, developing our + abilities, will be of great benefit to our cause. + + "These vocations are inseparable from speculation. Thus the + production of a musical composition, even though it be very + mediocre, will furnish to our co-religionists a plausible + reason for elevating on a pedestal and surrounding with a halo + the Jew who will be the author of it. As for the sciences, + medicine and philosophy, they must equally be a part of our + intellectual domain. + + "_To the physician are usually confided the most intimate secrets + of the family and he, therefore, holds in his hands the health and + life of our ancient enemies--the Christians._ We are obliged to + encourage matrimonial unions between Israelites and Christians, for + the people of Israel, risking no loss whatsoever from such contact, + will only gain from such unions. + + "... The introduction of a certain quantity of impure blood + into our God-chosen race will not corrupt it. Our daughters + will furnish us with these marriages alliances with Christian + families that possess influence and power. In exchange for the + money that we give, it is just that we obtain influence on + everything that surrounds us. + + "Our relationship with the Christians will not make us deviate from + the path we have always been following; on the contrary, with a + certain degree of artfulness and cunning, this relationship will + gradually make us full masters of their destinies. _It is + desirable, that the Israelites refrain from keeping concubines of + our holy faith and rather select Christian girls for the part._ The + substitution of the simple formality of a contract before some + civil power for the church ceremony is of the greatest importance + to us, because on this condition Christian women will overflow our + camp.--If gold is the first power on this earth, then the second + power is undoubtedly the press. But of what significance is the + latter without the former? Since we cannot realize all the + above-stated aims without the assistance of the press, _it is + absolutely necessary that the management of all the newspapers and + magazines of all the countries, be in our hands. The possession of + gold, of the press and of sufficient means for the satisfaction of + certain qualities of its soul, will make us masters of public + opinion and will subjugate to us the masses._ + + "Following this method on every step of our way with a persistence + which is one of our highest qualities, we will push the Christians + aside and reduce their influence to zero. We will dictate to the + world what it should believe, what it must revere or despise. It is + possible that persons will be found who will arise against us; + arming themselves, they will hurl insults and curses at us; but the + docile, ignorant masses will harken to us and will take our part. + _Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness--and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything that the gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping._ + + "May all this be understood and noted, and let every child of + Israel become imbued with its true principles. Then our might will + grow like a gigantic tree the branches of which will bear fruits, + known as riches, pleasure, power. + + "... as a compensation for that hideous condition which for + long centuries has been the unique lot of the people of + Israel. + + "When one of us makes a step forward let the next one follow him. + If his foot slips let his co-religionists hasten to support him. + If an Israelite is trapped by the court of the country in which he + resides, his brethren in faith should use all their efforts to get + him out of trouble or to help him otherwise, but on the condition + that the Israelite in question acted according to the laws which + Israel observes strictly and guards for so many centuries, and the + precepts of our religion. + + "Our people is conservative, faithful to the religious + ceremonies and usages which our ancestors have bequeathed to + us. + + "It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + "The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + yield to oratory, as empty as it is loud, make them easy prey for + us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the aid + of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe our + artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through the + medium of genuine sentiment. + + "It is necessary, to support as much as possible, the Proletariat + and to subjugate it to those in charge of the finances. Acting in + this manner, it will be for us to incite the masses, whenever we + shall need them. We will use them as weapons for upheavals and + revolutions and each of these catastrophes will move our cause + forward with gigantic strides and will bring us, with a quick pace, + nearer our goal--to reign over the entire world, as it was promised + by our Father Abraham." + +[_For the sake of illustration, the following extracts, out of many that +might be selected, are taken from the Goedsche-Retcliffe novel which +were afterwards elaborated and presented as facts._] + + + FIRST STAGE OF THE LIE--THE NOVELETTE + + If we will be supreme in the stock exchange, we will attain the + same supremacy in the governments. Therefore it is necessary to + facilitate loans in order to get them into our hands all the more. + Wherever possible, we must take in exchange for capital, mortgages + on railroads, taxes, mines, regalias (?) and domains. (Page 32.) + + Ownership of land is always the iron-clad, everlasting possession + of every country. This in itself gives power, respect and + influence. Therefore the Jews should secure the possibility of + acquiring real estate. Therefore it is necessary to facilitate the + loans on land. The more we will help the breaking up of estates, + the more easily they will fall into our hands. (Page 33.) + + Industry the power of the burgher, which hinders the Jewish nation + must be paralyzed even as agriculture. (Page 34.) + + The natural enemy of the Jews is the Christian Church. Therefore we + must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking, + scepticism, and conflicts. Therefore we will first of all start a + war on the clergy, we will try to arouse suspicion against it and + humiliate it. + + Let our brethren strive for the abolition of armed force.... Not + the sword, but reason and money must rule. (Page 35.) + + Our nation is conservative to its very root, and clings fast to the + old. But our interests demand that we participate, or, rather, + direct the movements of nations. It is indisputable that ours is a + time of many reforms, whose main purpose is the amelioration of the + material condition of the needy classes. But for this the + propertied classes must sacrifice their capital. Capital is in the + hands of the Jews. Therefore, they must outwardly take part in the + movement and try to divert it from social and political reforms. + The masses themselves are blind and foolish and permit the shouters + to rule over them.... The instability of the foundation increases + our power and our influence. Therefore the support of every kind of + revolution increases our capital and brings us nearer to our goal. + (Pages 36-37.) + + Of what value are all the opinions and advice given here without + the aid of the press? We will attain our aim only when the press + will be in our hands. Our people must direct the daily + publications.... We need great political newspapers which will mold + public opinion--criticism, the literature of the street and the + stage. In this way we will crowd out the Christians step by step, + and will dictate to the world what it should believe in, what it + should respect and what it should curse. We will repeat the + sorrowful cry of Israel and the complaints against the persecutions + which are directed against us.... With the press in our hands we + can turn wrong into right, dishonesty into honesty. We can shake + all foundations and separate families. We can destroy faith in all + that our enemies believed until now. We can ruin credits and arouse + passions. We can declare war; we can give fame or disgrace. We can + uplift or ruin talent. (Page 43.) + +[_The following are parallel extracts from the imaginary Rabbi's speech +vouched for by the author of the novelette as fact a number of years +later._] + + + SECOND STAGE OF THE LIE--"THE RABBI'S SPEECH" + + When we become at last the sole possessors of all the gold to be + found on earth, the power will practically be transferred to our + hands, and the promises made to Abraham will be fulfilled. Gold--is + the greatest power on earth, it is might, reward, the instrument of + every authority, it is all man, both fears and desires.... The + problem before us now is to facilitate even to a greater extent the + means of contracting these loans and thus to become the sole + managers of all the valuables, after which the exploitation of all + their railroads, mines, forests, large factories and industrial + plants, as well as of all other real property, including duties and + taxes, will fall into our hands, as a security for the capital lent + to us by the various states. + + Agriculture will forever remain the principal source of a country's + wealth. The possession of large plots of land will pave for us even + a broader way to honors and will strengthen our influence over the + highest officials of the country. From this follows, that our + efforts will be directed towards inducing our brethren in Israel to + make large agricultural purchases. We must, therefore, do our + utmost to break up large estates into small parcels, in order to be + able to purchase them in the easiest and quickest way. Under the + pretext of trying to help the working classes, it is necessary to + oppress the large landowners with taxation in all its severity. + When these possessions will thus gradually be transferred in our + hands, the whole labor of the Christian proletariat will become for + us a new source of tremendous profits. + + Commerce and speculation--these branches, most plentiful in their + fruits,--must never be suffered to slip out of the hands of the + Israelites,--with this object in view the people of Israel must + direct its ambition towards those high offices of authority which + have the power to distribute honors and esteem. + + Since the Christian Church is one of our most dangerous enemies, we + must work tirelessly to weaken its influence, and in order to + accomplish this, it is necessary to use all our efforts to implant + in the Christian intellectual class ideas of Atheism, scepticism, + dissension and to call forth religious disputes among the + newly-formed groups and sects of Christendom. + + It is very important for us to pretend to be expounders and + protagonists of social questions prevalent at the time in a + country, especially of those whose aim it is to better the fate of + the workingman; but, in reality, our efforts must gravitate towards + possession and rule over the movements of public opinion. + + The blindness of the masses and the tendency of their leaders to + fall for oratory as empty as it is loud, will make them easy prey + for us and a double weapon for our popularity and credit. With the + aid of oratory, our speakers will be able to make people believe + our artificial enthusiasm which Christians usually attain through + genuine sentiment.... + + Once we become absolute masters of the press, we will easily be + able to refashion the ideas of honor, of virtue, of + faithfulness--and to deal the first blow to the family-conception + which is considered to this day as the most sacred institution and + which must be reduced to a state of decay. We shall then be able to + uproot the belief in that which our enemies, the Christians, shall + have worshipped until that time and instead of that, having brought + up the army in a spirit of infatuation with the various passions, + we shall openly declare war upon everything which the Gentiles are + at present revering and worshipping.... + +[_The following are extracts from the new version of the "protocols" +introduced by Nilus in 1905, showing the different stages of the +forgery._] + + + THIRD STAGE OF THE LIE--"THE PROTOCOLS"[*] + + [Footnote *: These extracts are taken from "The Protocols of the + Wise Men of Zion," published by the Beckwith Company, New York, + 1920.] + + All the wheels of the government mechanism are driven by the motor + which is in our hands, and that motor is--gold. (Prot. 5.) + + To make it possible for liberty definitely to disintegrate and ruin + Gentile society, industry must be placed upon a speculative basis. + The result will be that all products extracted from industry from + the soil will not remain in their hands but will pass through + speculation into our possession. (Prot. 4.) + + The aristocracy of the Gentiles as a political force has passed + away.... But as owners of land, they are harmful to us in that they + are independent in their sources of livelihood. Therefore at all + costs we must deprive them of their land. The best means to attain + this is to increase land taxes and mortgage indebtedness. These + measures will keep land ownership in a state of unconditional + subordination. (Prot. 6.) + + See second quotation above. + + At the same time it is necessary to encourage trade and industry + vigorously and especially speculation, the function of which is to + act as a counterpoise to industry.... It is necessary for industry + to deplete the land both of laborers and capital, and, through + speculation, transfer all the money of the world into our hands, + thereby throwing the Gentiles into the ranks of the proletariat. + (Prot. 6.) + + It is for this reason that we must undermine faith, eradicate from + the minds of the Gentiles the very principle of God and soul and + replace these conceptions by mathematical calculations and material + desires. (Prot. 4.) + + We have taken good care long ago to discredit the Gentile clergy + and thereby to destroy their mission, which at present might hamper + us considerably. Their influence over people diminishes daily. + (Prot. 17.) + + It is indispensible for our purposes that, as far as possible, wars + should bring no territorial advantages. This will shift war to an + economic footing and nations will perceive the strength of our + superiority in the aid we render. Such a condition of affairs will + place both sides under the control of our international agents with + their million eyes, whose vision is unhampered by any frontiers. + (Prot. 2.) + + We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes + who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting + that they join our army of socialists, anarchists, communists, to + whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal + principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry.... + (Prot. 3.) + + We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all + movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will + tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in + disgust. (Prot. 5.) + + We shall handle the press in the following manner ... to end of + Protocol 12. + + + + +CHAPTER FOUR + +THE RUSSIAN SPONSORS OF THE FORGERY + +Nilus on the Protocols--Only "the God-Anointed Tsar of Russia" Can Save +the World--Passages from Nilus Omitted by Translators--On Tolstoy--On the +Emancipation of Women--On the "Sanhedrin" and "its Faithful Ally, +England." + + +In 1905 the second edition of Serge Nilus's book appeared, printed on +government presses at Tsarskoye Selo, containing a new and elaborated +version of the protocols. + +The translators of the Nilus protocols published in his 1905 edition, a +copy of which is in the British Museum, have deliberately omitted +numerous passages from his prologue and epilogue. These passages show +clearly the purpose of the volume. Nilus writes: "We may perhaps be +reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal character of the document +presented. But if it were possible to demonstrate its accuracy by +documents or through the testimony of trustworthy witnesses, if it were +possible to unveil the faces of those who are at the head of the world +conspiracy and who hold its bloody strings in their hands, then the very +'mystery of lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain +intact until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.'" Then he goes +on to say that the world is rushing towards its destruction, and that +there is only one force that can save it, and that is the "God-Anointed +Tsar of Russia." The omitted portions of the Nilus book show distinctly +that it is a work of propaganda for the Russian autocracy. Nilus +denounced Leo Tolstoy, the emancipation of women, and all movements +leading toward progress. + +The editors of the protocols in Europe and America, realizing that these +passages would disclose to intelligent people the real motive of the +Nilus protocols and thus discredit them, have deliberately omitted them +in the translations. + +Here are some of the omitted portions of the notorious Nilus book, which +are his own utterances and do not purport to constitute a part of the +Protocols. They are translated from a photographed copy of the volume in +the British Museum: + + * * * * * + + "We have succeeded in obtaining for our use from a man close to us, + now deceased, a manuscript in which are described with unusual + precision and clearness the course and progress of the universal + fatal mystery aiming to bring the apostate world to an inevitable + catastrophe. This manuscript was given to us about four years ago + (in 1901) with the assurance that it was an accurate copy--a + translation of the original documents stolen by a woman from one of + the most powerful and sacred directors of Freemasonry after one of + the secret meetings of the 'initiates' in France, the present nest + of the Freemason's sect. This manuscript under the general title + 'Protocols of Meetings of the Wise Men of Zion' I now call to the + attention of all who wish to see or hear. These 'Protocols' at a + first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to + call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed + with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in + commonplaces. A proud, deeply-rooted, ancient, for a long time + secretly growing,--and what is more frightful than all,--a religious + rage boils between the lines, bubbling over and escaping from the + overfilled vessel of violence and vengeance, already approaching + complete triumph. + + "It must be mentioned, by the way, that the title of the manuscript + does not fully justify the contents: these are not protocols of a + meeting but rather the report of someone in power, divided into + parts which are not even always logically connected: the impression + remains that this is a fragment of something much more significant, + the beginning of which has been lost. The origin of the manuscript, + as given by us above, furnishes sufficient explanation of this. + + * * * * * + + "We may perhaps be reproached, and justly, for the apocryphal + character of the document presented. But if it were possible to + demonstrate its accuracy by documents or through the testimony of + trustworthy witnesses, if it were possible to unveil the faces of + those who are at the head of the world conspiracy and who hold its + bloody strings in their hands, then the very 'mystery of + lawlessness' would be infringed upon, and it must remain intact + until its incarnation in the 'son of destruction.' In the + complexity of the present criminally-earthly process _we must not + search for direct evidence_; we are forced to content ourselves + with indirect proof and of these it seems that the attention of the + sad Christian observer is fully satisfied. + + "The history of the Rothschilds show that the whole republican era + of France is due to Zion and that not a single one of those elected + to office has to this time ever done what he promised to do, if the + demands of his electors did not coincide with the plans of the + government of Zion. + + "What has become of unfortunate France!... + + "'Let him who has ears, listen!'" + + * * * * * + + "'Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some + shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and + doctrines of devils; + + "'Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a + hot iron; + + "'Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which + God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which + believe and know the truth.' + + "Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole + world?!" + + * * * * * + + "In every age there have been many women 'drowning in sin and led + on by various lusts': the ebb and flow of this sin in woman's heart + characterized whole epochs of particular human defection but at no + time of the seeming triumph of sin have there been women + 'constantly studying'--this sign represents entirely a universal + inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic of our epoch. + + "Who is ignorant of the so-called 'woman question,' the + emancipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up so + many families and which threatens an even greater disruption in the + future?!... + + "For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons her + true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate world + revolution!" + + * * * * * + + "The Sanhedrin was unseizable and invulnerable. It carried the + roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different + name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after + having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having + declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present + day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with + its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was + never penurious. + + "As to the question why England and no other European government + was chosen as the point of resistance for the fighting Sanhedrin, + the Sanhedrin gives no reply. We are inclined to think that the + cause is to be found in the isolated island position of the + sufficiently strong government, and perhaps in the kinship between + the English and the Jews.[*] + + [Footnote *: As is known, there is a scientific theory which tries + to prove that the English are the descendants of one of the + scattered tribes of Israel. The Sanhedrin which directs the course + of contemporary science, is not ashamed to produce whatever + theories are advantageous to them. According to certain tenuous + evidences in the air it seems that a new theory is being produced + according to which the honor of birth relationship with the + God-elected Sanhedrin is extended to America and ... Japan. AVIS A + L'ANGLETERRE!...)] + + "Having covered the whole of Europe with a network of Masonic lies + (the symbol of the temple of Solomon is preserved for them also), + possessing countless millions, in face of the general fall of the + Christian spirit among the European peoples, in whom there was + artificially spread and supported the cult of the golden calf; + having poisoned the idea of godliness and spirituality in the heart + of the peoples by 'scientific' theories, the Sanhedrin--the priest + of the golden idol created by it, has gained control of the + spiritual life of all Europe, and with its help, with the help of + its gold, with the sold consciousness of those standing at the helm + of power, and with the help of its faithful ally--England, it has + corrupted and perverted all the political foundations of Europe, + and through them the well-being and spiritual health of its + population. The French revolution, glorified by the Masonized + historical science of 'greatness' and the fall of the 'great' + Napoleon have shown to the world the significance and strength of + the Sanhedrin. But the world did not recognize the new + manifestation of Satan: at that time the words of truth of the + Evangel and the apostolic foresight had become alien to him." + + + + +CHAPTER FIVE + +FORGERS DISAGREE + +The Butmi Protocols--"Representatives of Zion" Not to be Confounded with +"Zionists"--Butmi Contradicts Nilus--Plan for World Conquest Conceived 929 +B. C. E.--The "Symbolic Snake"--Universal Suffrage a Jewish Device--Every +Jew Familiar with Plot. + + +In the book issued by G. Butmi to which reference has been made, and +which contains the "Rabbi's Speech" already considered, there is to be +found still another version of the protocols. Butmi was a Black Hundred +writer. It appeared in 1907 and was dedicated to the Black Hundred +organization. Appropriately enough it was published by the Society of +Deaf and Dumb, as will be seen from the facsimile reproduction of the +title page. With exceeding _naivete_ Butmi published the forged speech +attributed by Retcliffe-Goedsche to a Jewish Rabbi as proof of the +genuineness of the protocols, and side by side with the fabricated +speech appears the Butmi version of the protocols which had undergone +further changes subsequent to the publication in 1905 of "the documents" +by Serge Nilus. + +The headlines over the protocols in the Butmi 1907 version read as +follows: + + "PROTOCOLS TAKEN OUT OF THE SECRET DEPOSITORIES OF THE MAIN OFFICE + OF ZION. + + "'(Extracts from ancient and modern protocols of the Sages of Zion + of the Universal Organization of Freemasons.)' + +Thus the Protocols were in 1907 presented by G. Butmi, dedicated to the +Black Hundreds, as Masonic, not as Jewish documents. In his introduction +the author says, in part, as follows: + + "'These secret protocols were secured with great difficulty in + fragmentary form, and were translated into Russian in December, + 1901. It is almost impossible to get at the secret depositories + again where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be + reinforced by definite information as to the place, day, month, + year, where and when they were composed. + + "'The reader who is more or less familiar with the secrets of + Freemasonry will draw from the general character of the criminal + plot, outlined in the protocols, the conclusion as to their + authenticity, and from several details he will suppose with great + certainty that the mentioned protocols were taken from the + documents of the Masonic lodge of Egyptian ritual, or Mizraim, + which is joined mostly by Jews.... + + "'But the above-mentioned failure to mention the time and place + where the protocols were composed might call forth in the reader, + who is entirely unfamiliar with the abominations of Masonic + doctrines, doubts as to the authenticity of these documents.'" + +At the end of the "protocols" published in this edition by Butmi, in +1907, there appears a note by the man who declares that he had secured +and translated the documents from the French, on December 9, 1901, and +in the very first two lines of his note, he states that the +representatives of Zion mentioned in the documents are not to be +confounded with the representatives of the Zionist movement. The Russian +mystic Serge Nilus, in his later editions, connected the documents with +the Zionist Congress in Basle and with the head of the Zionist movement, +Dr. Theodore Herzl. + +The translator, as do Nilus and Lutostansky, also gives a version of +"the political plan devised by the Wise Men of Zion." This translator, +however, states that the "political plan was conceived 929 years before +the birth of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and Judean sages in +theory." + +Here follow extracts from the so-called Translator's Note: + + + [Illustration: Cyrillic] + + [Transliteration: + no esli im ne dat' krovi, oni ne spjat, a borjutsja... + + Primechanie perevodchika. + + Izlozhennye protokoly podpisany Sionskimi predstaviteljami + (ne smeshivajte s predstaviteljami sionistskago dvizhenija). Oni + vyhvacheny iz celoj knigi protokolov, vsego soderzhanija + kotoroj ne udalos' perepisat' po kratkosti vremeni, dannago + na prochtenie ih perevodchiku etih protokolov. K nim + bylo prilozheno eshhe nebol'shoe pribavlenie i plan zavoevanija + mira Evrejami mirnym putem. Eti protokoly i chertezh dobyty + iz tajnyh hranilishh Sionskoj Glavnoj Kanceljacii, + nyne nahodjashhejsja na francuzskoj territorii. + + Na upomjanutom chertezhe znachilsja ves' politicheskij plan + Siona po otnosheniju k imejushhim byt' projdennymi etapam + ] + + _Translator's Note._ + + "The expounded protocols are signed the representatives of Zion + (_do not confound them with the representative of the Zionist + movement_). They were taken out of a whole book of protocols, the + entire contents of which it was impossible to copy because of the + short time allowed the translator for reading these protocols. A + small appendix was attached to them and a plan of conquering the + world by the Jews by peaceful means. Those protocols and the Sketch + were taken from the secret depositories of the Main Office of Zion, + now located on French territory. + + "The above-mentioned sketch contained the entire political plan of + Zion with regard to the stages to be passed through by this + movement and to the means of passing from one to another. The + aforesaid political plan was conceived 929 years before the birth + of Christ. It was invented by Solomon and the Judean Sages in + theory; according to historical events, it was elaborated and + enlarged by their followers initiated in this plan. + + "These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, with + the cunning of the Symbolic Snake, whose head should be composed of + the Jewish Government initiated in the plans of the Wise Men + (always masked even to their people), and the body--the Jewish + nation. + + "Crawling into the bosom of governments, this snake has undermined + or eaten away all non-Jewish governmental powers, according to + their growth, in various continents, but particularly in Europe, + which he should do also in the future, following exactly the + outlines of the plan until the cycle of the road travelled by it + will close by the return of the head of the Snake to Zion,--that is, + until this snake will include in the sphere of its circle all + Europe, and through Europe the whole world, utilizing all forces + conquered by economic means in order to draw the other continents + into the sphere of its cycle.... + + "For instance, the economic theory of the ballot system has made it + possible to carry out everything that was desirable in the + interests of the elevation of Zion. The Jewish authorities + commenced to act by means of bribing or by instigating the majority + of votes as soon as they succeeded to manage so that the decisions + of that majority became the determining factor in questions of + national life. The crowd always in need, or the greedy intelligent + class, short-sighted liberals and other blind people have also + rendered good service to Zion. Therefore the republican is the most + desirable and convenient form of government for Zion because it + gives full sway for the activities of the armies of Zion--for + anarchists of thought and action, called socialists. + + "All that which is outlined above is the work of the hands of the + nation without a territory, constituting but a drop in the ocean of + humanity, but possessing the most ideal Government, every member of + which is familiarized with the plan of action worked out in the + course of centuries, from which he cannot deviate. The politics of + the goyim is the politics of accidental circumstances, engineered + by the Jews, and tends not towards perfecting the affairs of the + state, but towards struggle for the sake of greed, or more often + for the personal aggrandizement of the administrators. + + "From this it is clear, on whose side there must be victory and the + guidance of the world. + + "Translation from the French, December 9, 1901." + + + + +CHAPTER SIX + +THE BLACK HUNDREDS, THEIR DUPES AND CRIMES + +Russia in 1905--The Unsuccessful Revolution--The Reaction and the +Reactionaries--Lutostansky and His Work--The "Symbolic Snake" According to +Lutostansky--Who Plagiarized?--Lutostansky on the English People--Are the +English the "Lost Tribes"?--How the Protocols Were "Doctored" by +Butmi--Conclusion. + + +As the writings of Sergius Nilus are typical of the "literature" +produced under the auspices of the Russian Black Hundred organizations +which sought to save the Czar's throne by pogroms, I examined a large +number of publications brought out in Russia during the period when "the +Russian Mystic," Sergius Nilus, published his pretended discovery, the +"Protocols." His book, "The Great in the Small and anti-Christ," +appeared in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Russian +revolutionists made an attempt to overthrow the Czar's government. A new +organization was formed for the support of the Russian throne. It was +known as "the Union of the Russian People,"--"the Black Hundred,"--whose +program was Jew-baiting. It was then that Russia adopted a definite, +anti-Jewish policy of vengeance--a pogrom policy. The "Black Hundred" +held the Jews responsible for Russia's defeat in the war and for the +attempted revolution,--and neither the Czar nor his loyal organization of +the "Black Hundred" ever forgave Count Sergius Witte, who won for Russia +at the Portsmouth Peace Conference what she had lost on the +battlefields, for inducing Nicholas II to grant a constitution to +Russia. "The Black Hundreds" nicknamed Witte "the Jewish Count of +Portsmouth." They attacked him and attempted to assassinate him. They +assassinated at that time two Jewish members of the Duma, Yollos and +Hertzenstein. It was during that period of Judophobomania that Sergius +Nilus published his book introducing the "Protocols" in Russia. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1907 +CONTAINING ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-BRITISH ATTACKS.] + +[Transliteration: +TALMUD i EVREI + +Talmud est' religioznyj katehizis. + +Evrei i dejanija ih po ucheniju talmuda. + + +Kompiljacija iz raznyh talmudov i kommentariev chlena-sotrudnika +Imperatorskago Pravoslavnago Palestinskago Obshhestva + +Dvorjanina otstavnogo uchitelja klass. gimnazii. + +_I. Ljutostanskago._ + +KNIGA SHESTAJA. + +IZDANIE TRET'E + +ispravlennoe i znachitel'no dopolnennoe. + + +IZDATEL' + +A. N. Pershin. + +S.-PETERBURG + +Tipografija T-va "SVET", Nevskij, 136. + +1907. +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transliteration: +Ob'jasnenie sionskago simvolicheskago zmeja. + + +[Illustration: P]redstavlennyj politicheskij plan +v obraze zmija, ochen' drevnij, byl +izmyshlen iudejskimi mudrecami v +teorii, po mere zhe istoricheskih sobytij +razrabatyvaem i dopolnjaem prosveshhennymi +v etom posledovateljami. +Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' +mir dlja Ciona, s hitrost'ju simvolicheskago +zmija. Glava zmija izobrazhaet +mudrecov sionskih, a--tulovishhe narod +iudejskij. Propolzaja v gosudarstvennyja +nedra, zmij etot podtachivaet ili pozhiraet +vse ne iudejskija gosudarstvennyja +sily, po mere ih rosta na raznyh +kontinentah, no osobenno v Evrope, +chto on dolzhen delat' i v budushhem, +pri tochnom sledovanii po prednachertanijam +plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago +im puti ne somknetsja vozvratom glavy zmija na +Sion, to est' poka etot zmij ne zakljuchit v sfere +svoego kruga vsju Evropu, a cherez nee ves' mir. Pervym +delom starajutsja vnesti vezde bezverie i upadok nravstvennosti, +pol'zujas' vsemi zavoevannymi ekonomicheskim +] + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE FROM LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK, "THE TALMUD AND THE JEWS," PUBLISHED +IN 1907, SHOWING THE PASSAGE USED BY NILUS IN HIS BOOK CONTAINING THE +PROTOCOLS.] + +[Transliteration: + +iv + +putem silami, chtoby zavlech' v sferu svoego cikla ostal'nye +kontinenty. Tak kak vozvrat glavy zmija mog sovershit'sja +lish' po sglazhennym razvalinam gosudarstvennoj +moshhi vseh evropejskih stran, cherez padenie etoj moshhi, +ot ekonomicheskago razstrojstva i razorenija, vsjudu vnosimago +Sionom cherez nravstvennyj upadok. Rastlenie, +vnosimoe s pomoshh'ju zhidovok, vydajushhih sebja za francuzhenok +i ital'janok, kotoryja dazhe fiktivno prinimajut +i kreshhenie, potom delajutsja zhenami vazhnyh lic, +na podobie biblejskoj Esfiri, a pri nih vsegda soputstvujut +Mardohei i proizvodjat svoju politiku v +pol'zu zhidovstva. Eti-to mnimyja francuzhenki i ital'janki +javljajutsja samymi luchshimi nositel'nicami rasputstva +nravov s mesta na mesto. Eti zhenshhiny sluzhat dlja +teh, kotorye, blagodarja im, vsegda nuzhdajutsja v den'gah, +a potomu ohotno torgujut sovest'ju, chtoby dobyt' +deneg vo chto by to ni stalo. Den'gi zhe tol'ko +ssuzhajutsja takim torgovcam sovesti, chto bystro vozvrashhajutsja +v ruki, ssuzhavshija ih, potomu chto s pomoshh'ju +teh zhe zhenshhin rastrachivajutsja skoro posle +ih poluchenija. Sionskija seti razstavleny na vseh putjah +"goev" i cikl zmija podvigaetsja v XX stoletii +bystrotoj kur'erskago dvizhenija k namechennoj svoej celi. + +Polnoe izlozhenie vseh tainstvennyh protokolov +Sionskih zhidovskih mudrecov, ves' plan zavoevanija +vsego mira, budet pomeshheno v VII-m sledujushhem tome +"Talmud i evrei". K dejstvijam tajnago sionskago zmija +otnositsja i kleveta naglaja, vzvedennaja na uvazhaemago +vo vsej Rossii o. protoiereja Ioanna Kronshtadtskago. Vse +eto dejstvie zhidov, obnaglevshih v poslednee vremja +dlja podryva pravoslavnoj religii i pokolebanija very narodov, +uvazhenija svjatosti cerkvi i predannosti Carju +i otechestvu. Vse gazety, pechat' i knizhnaja torgovlja nahodjatsja +uzhe v zhidovskih rukah, chego zhe im bol'she? +Vsja G. Duma byla uzhe pod zhidovskoj komandoju. Teper' +ostaetsja tol'ko pokolebat', a potom oprokinut' hri- +] + +In my investigation I naturally examined the works of the Russian arch +anti-Semite, Ippolit Lutostansky, who first accused the Jews of the most +despicable crimes, and then, in 1882, after the occurrence of the +pogroms in the south of Russia, wrote a volume retracting all his +previous anti-Jewish accusations, and declaring anti-Semitism to be +nothing but an outgrowth of ignorance and malice. Several years later he +resumed his anti-Semitic agitation and became one of the most vicious +vilifiers of the Jewish people on the eve of the notorious Beilis affair +which was staged by the Russian government for the purpose of +discrediting the Jews and of justifying the Russian governmental +anti-Jewish policy before the world. After the collapse of the Beilis +prosecution, which involved the absurd charge of ritual murder, +Lutostansky approached several prominent wealthy Jews with an offer to +retract his new charges against the Jews, provided they would pay him a +certain amount of money for his book. The Jews declined to have anything +to do with the charlatan who had caused so much harm to the Jews of +Russia by his monstrous accusations. His works attracted special +attention because of the fact that they were endorsed and supported by +Russian Grand Dukes and by the Dowager Empress of Russia. + +While examining one of his books entitled, "The Talmud and the Jews," +published in 1907, in which he promised the publication of "the +Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion" in his forthcoming volume, I came +upon an amazing passage in his introduction, outlining an alleged secret +plan of the Jews to gain world domination, which I find reproduced, +word for word, with but a few phrases changed, in the epilogue of "the +Russian mystic," Sergius Nilus. Did Sergius Nilus plagiarize +Lutostansky? Or was it Lutostansky who plagiarized Nilus? Or were they +one and the same person? At any rate, both served the purposes of the +"Black Hundreds" against the Jews, and both employed the same weapons. + +Here is a translation of Lutostansky's introduction: + + From Lutostansky's Introduction, 1907 + + EXPLANATION OF THE ZIONIST SYMBOLIC SNAKE + + "The political plan represented in the form of a snake is very old + and was devised by the Judaean sages in theory, and in the course + of historical developments it is elaborated and augmented by their + initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the world + peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. The head + of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body--the Judaean + nation. Crawling into the bosoms of governments, this snake + undermines eats away all non-Judaean governmental forces, as they + grow on various continents, but especially in Europe, which it is + to do also in the future, carefully following the outlined plan, + until the cycle of the road travelled by it is completed by the + return of the head of the snake to Zion,--that is until this snake + will include within the sphere of its circle the whole of Europe, + and through Europe the whole world. First of all they are + endeavoring to introduce everywhere irreligion and moral decadence, + utilizing all forces they have won economically in order to drag + the other continents into the sphere of their cycle. As the return + of the head of the snake could be accomplished only over the razed + ruins of the governmental power of all European countries, through + the collapse of this power, through economic disorganization and + ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of moral decadence. + Corruption is introduced with the aid of Jewesses under the guise + of French or Italian women, who even undergo fictitious baptism for + these purposes and then become the wives of prominent men, like the + biblical Esther, and they are always accompanied by their + Mordecais, and make their politics for the good of the Jews. These + so-called French and Italian women are the best carriers of + immorality from place to place. These women are used for those who, + because of them, are always in need of money, and therefore + willingly barter their conscience to secure money at any cost. The + money is reality only loaned to such conscience-barterers, for it + quickly comes back to the hands of those loaned the money, as it + is squandered with the aid of these women soon after they receive + it. The Zionist nets are spread out on all the roads of the goyim + (gentiles) and the cycle of the snake is moving along in the + Twentieth century with the speed of an express train towards its + goal. + + "The complete outline of all the secret protocols of the Zionist + Jewish sages, the entire plan of the conquest of the whole world, + will be included in the next (seventh) volume of 'The Talmud and + the Jews.'" + +And this is a facsimile reproduction and translation of Sergius Nilus's +epilogue taken from the copy of the "Protocols" in the British Museum, +from which the American translation was made. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF PAGE OF SERGE NILUS'S BOOK CONTAINING THE PROTOCOLS SHOWING +THE SAME PASSAGE AS IN LUTOSTANSKY'S BOOK.] + +[Transliteration: + -395- + + toryja v Maloj Azii budut podderzhivaemy francuzskoj + diplomatiej. + + Konechno, eto trebovanie l'goty ne kasaetsja katolicheskih + uchrezhdenij, izgonjaemyh iz Francii neskol'kimi + poslednimi sostavami eja pravitel'stva, a dokazyvaet lish', + chto Drejfusarovskaja diplomatija vystupaet za interesy + Siona i otkryvaet put' dlja kolonizacii francuzskimi evrejami + Maloj Azii. + + Sion vsegda zavoevyval sebe mesta i vlijanie cherez + svoj rabochij skot s chelovecheskimi licami, kak nazyvaet + Talmud vse ne-evrejskoe chelovechestvo. + + Po dannym tajnago evrejskago Sionizma, Solomonom i + drugimi Iudejskimi mudrecami eshhe za 929 let do Rozhdestva + Hristova byl izmyshlen v teorii politicheskij + plan mirnago zavoevanija dlja Siona vselennoj. Po mere + razvitija istoricheskih sobytij, plan etot byl razrabatyvaem + i popolnjaem posvjashhennymi v eto delo posledovateljami[1]. + + Eti mudrecy reshili mirno zavoevat' mir dlja Siona + hitrost'ju Simvolicheskago Zmija, glavu kotorago dolzhno bylo + sostavljat' posvjashhennoe v plany mudrecov pravitel'stvo + evreev (vsegda zamaskirovannye dazhe ot svoego naroda), + a tulovishhe--narod Iudejskij. Pronikaja v nedra vstrchaemyh + im na puti gosudarstv, Zmij etot podtachival + i pozhiral (svergaja ih) vse gosudarstvennyja, ne-evrejskija, + sily, po mere ih rosta. Eto zhe dolzhen on delat' + i v budushhem pri tochnom sledovanii prednachertanijam + plana, do teh por, poka cikl projdennago im puti + ne somknetsja vozvratom Glavy ego na Sione i poka, takim + obrazom, Zmij ne zakljuchit, ne sosredotochit v + sfere svoego kruga vsej Evropy, a cherez nee i + ostal'noj mir, pol'zujas' vsemi silami--zavoevaniem i + ekonomicheskim putem, chtoby podchinit' svoemu vlijaniju, + vlijaniju svoego cikla, i ostal'nye kontingenty. Vozvrat + + [Footnote 1: Ap. Pavel, kak odin iz naibolee darovityh + uchenikov farisejskoj + shkoly, ne mog ne byt' posvjashhen v etu "tajnu bezzakonija, + nahodivshujusja v dejstvii" i v ego vremja. Otsjuda osobaja zloba + gonenija na nego so storony voinstvujushhago Izrailja.] +] + + From the Nilus Epilogue, 1917 + + "According to secret Jewish Zionism, a political plan was devised + in theory for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, by + Solomon and other sages already 929 years before the birth of + Christ. In the course of historical developments, the plan was + elaborated and augmented by their followers initiated in this + affair. These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for + Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake, whose head should + constitute the government of the Jews initiated in the plans of the + sages (always masked even from their own people) and the body--the + Judean nation. Penetrating the bosoms of the governments + encountered on the way, this snake has undermined and eaten away + (overthrowing) all governments, non-Jewish forces according to + their growth. + + "This it should also do in the future, carefully following the + outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is + completed by the return of the head of the snake to Zion, and until + the snake will thus include and concentrate in the sphere of its + circle the whole of Europe, and through Europe the rest of the + world, utilizing all forces of conquest and by economic means in + order to subject also the other continents to its influence, to the + influence of its cycle. The return of the head of the snake could + be accomplished only over the razed plains of the governmental + power of all the European countries,--that is through economic + disorganization and ruin, introduced by Zion everywhere by means of + spiritual decadence and moral turpitude, chiefly, with the aid of + Jewish women under the guise of French, Italian and Spanish women, + the best introducers of immorality into the conduct of the rulers + of nations. Women in the hands of Zion serve as bait for those, who + owing to them are always in need of money, and therefore barter + their conscience in order to get money at any cost. This money, in + fact, is only loaned to them, for it quickly comes back to the + hands of bribing Zion through these very women, and at the same + time they have secured slaves for Zion." + +A comparison of these pages shows that Nilus merely added to +Lutostansky's version the statement to be found in Butmi's version that +the political plan for the peaceful conquest of the world for Zion, was +devised in theory by Solomon and other sages _929 years before the birth +of Christ_. Lutostansky said in 1907 that "the head of the snake +represents the sages of Zion, and the body--the Judean nation," while +Nilus said that the "head should constitute the government of the Jews +initiated in the plans of the sages (always masked even from their own +people) and the body--the Judean nation." Thus the sages of Zion were +transformed by Nilus into "the government of the Jews" in order to +connect the "political plan" all the more closely with the "protocols." +The American editors have omitted this part of the Nilus epilogue, +evidently because it seemed even to them too absurd for American +consumption. + +All of the literature about the "protocols" that appeared in various +parts of the world in 1920 is based on the "documents" vouched for by +the mysterious Sergius Nilus, and fortified by the irresponsible +Jew-baiter and intellectual pervert Ippolit Lutostansky. + +That the Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi campaign was just what the Tsarist +government desired may be seen from the photographic reproduction of +the letter sent to Lutostansky by Grand Duke Michael, who was regarded +as the most liberal among the Russian Grand Dukes. The letter appears +together with other letters of congratulation from members of the +Imperial family in the volume containing the passages quoted above. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +LETTER OF THANKS SENT BY GRAND DUKE MICHAEL TO LUTOSTANSKY FOR HIS +ANTI-SEMITIC WORK.] + +[Transliteration: +Sostojashhij pri +Ego Imperatorskom Vysochestve +Gosudare Naslednike +i +velikom knjaze +Mihaile Aleksandroviche + +7 Nojabrja 1902 g. +N 1443. +S.-Peterburg. + +Ego Vysokoblagorodiju +I. I. Ljutostanskomu. + +Kopija. + +Milostivyj Gosudar' + +Ippolit Iosifovich. + +EGO IMPERATORSKOE VYSOCHESTVO +GOSUDAR' NASLEDNIK I VELIKIJ +KNJAZ' MIHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH +soizvolil blagosklonno prinjat' +podnesennyj Vami trud "Talmud i evrei", +prichem EGO VYSOCHESTVU blagougodno +bylo poruchit' mne peredat' Vam EGO +iskrennjuju priznatel'nost' za Vashe podnesenie. + +Blagovolite prinjat' i moju lichnuju +glubokuju priznatel'nost' za prislannyj +mne ekzempljar Vashej knigi. + +Proshu Vas prinjat' uverenie v sovershennom +moem uvazhenii i iskrennej +predannosti. + +Vsegda gotovyj k uslugam D. Dashkov. +] + +For the benefit of the antisemitic agitators in England, such as the +editors of The Morning Post, The New Witness, The Spectator, Blackwood's +Magazine, and a number of irresponsible publications needless to name, +it will prove instructive and interesting to reproduce a few additional +passages from the same volume, in order that they may know and +appreciate not only what that authority said concerning the Jews but +also what he thought of the English. + +On pages 279, 282 and 283 of volume six of "The Talmud and the Jews," +after outlining the alleged Jewish plot to gain world dominion, +Lutostansky wrote, in 1907: + + "The English are typical pure-blooded Israelites. In ancient times + they were all red-headed, as we see from the descriptions in the + Bible and the New Testament. The characteristic of the Israelites + is known to the whole world under the sun. The characteristic of + the English, if we follow it closely, does not differ from the + Jewish in the slightest degree. Who are the English? This question + has long occupied the minds of many people in Europe, as well as in + England itself. The universal trading traits of the sons of Albion, + their looting politics, based on unfair business, and many other + characteristic traits of the nation which are not peculiar to any + of the other European nations that are even less cultured and + civilized that the English--all these have long seemed very + suspicious and have drawn attention to a certain kinship between + the Anglo-Saxons and the Jews. During the past two decades, in + England and America, also on the European continent, particularly + in France, a whole literature has been created, proving on the + basis of many facts, suppositions and historical references, that + the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race is not Germanic, but Semitic, + that the English are the direct descendants of the Israelites, + thrown by historic fate to the shores of the distant Albion.... + + "Indeed, the lion of Judah, has become the British lion and adorns + the coat of arms of the King of England. The harp of King David to + this day represents the coat of arms of Ireland.... + + "But not only are the kings of England the direct descendants of + Jewish Kings, they are even seated on the throne of David, on which + the ancient Jewish kings were married. This throne, on which Jacob + fell asleep on that night when he dreamt of the ladder and when the + Lord promised the kingdom to his posterity. This stone, called 'the + Stone of Fate,' which served for the weddings of Jewish Kings, was + brought to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah. Tergus (?) transferred + it to Scotland, whence it was taken to London. + + "It is curious to note that many prophecies about this fate of + Israel fit England absolutely, as for instance, the prophesy that + Israel will become a great nation, a kingdom on islands, ruling + over large colonies. + + "North America is inhabited by the tribe of Menasseh of whom it was + said in ancient prophesy that he will become a 'separate great + nation.' The very word _saxon_ is derived from _Isaacson_, that is + the son of Israel.... + + "As one of the signs of kinship between the population of England + and ancient Israel, we cannot help pointing out the close + similarity between the English and Jewish tribes, the similarity in + their manner of speech, and above all, trading as the fundamental + characteristic of both nations.... + + "The particular reverence in which the English hold the Bible + smacks of the Old Testament of the Jews. Even the preference on the + part of the English for long clothes indicates something + Asiatic.... + + "Arousing of late the unanimous indignation of the whole civilized + world, the English at the same time call forth amazement at their + traits, instincts and aspirations which positively make them a + monster in the family of cultured and civilized European nations. + As the proverb says, there is no family without a black sheep. + Every monstrosity, however, is to be explained--Jews come from + Jews." + + * * * * * + +This interesting information is taken from Lutostansky's book. Nilus and +other writers of the Black Hundred camp pictured England in the same +manner immediately after 1905. It was then the Russian governmental +policy to discredit England and the Jews in the eyes of the Russian +people, and the Black Hundreds were employed by the Tsar as the medium +through which to carry on this agitation. + +The "Black Hundreds" started their campaign in 1905, but their work was +so venomous, so absurd and so steeped in ignorance that there were few +people even in Russia who paid any attention to it. + +That the Nilus protocols which were published by the Black Hundreds were +not taken seriously in Russia by the reactionaries or even by the Black +Hundreds who sought every means of discrediting the Jews, may be +gathered from the fact that in the most stupendous anti-Jewish plot ever +devised by the Russian government to justify Jewish massacres,--the +notorious Beilis case,--the protocols published eight years previously +were never used by the prosecution, even though it resorted to every +foul means that could be conjured up of slandering and vilifying the +Jewish people. The very persons who were instrumental in spreading the +"protocols" in Russia in 1905 seemed to have realized that the false +accusations which they contained were too transparent and too clumsy to +deceive even the most credulous, and so they were discarded. + +But suddenly, after the armistice, a new edition of the Nilus book +containing the "protocols," dated 1917, made its appearance as suitable +to the chaotic conditions that prevailed in Russia and during the past +two years, as has been shown, it was reproduced in various countries. +This time the antisemitic propagandists are trying to connect the +"protocols" directly with Theodore Herzl and the Zionist movement. The +war, the peace treaty and bolshevism are characterized as the +fulfillment of these "protocols" which they say had been devised no less +than 929 years before the birth of Christ, by Solomon and other Sages. +The present "protocols" have been elaborated from the +"Retcliffe-Goedsche" versions by the Russian secret police department +and the Black Hundreds who ascribed all the evils in the world to the +Jews. + +The Black Hundred writer, G. Butmi, whose book "Enemies of the Human +Race," containing the fabricated speech by a "famous Rabbi" side by side +with the "protocols," gives several characteristic passages in his +introduction that will convey to the reader a clear conception of the +type of men who have stood behind the movement to discredit the Jews +through the so-called "protocols." + +On page 36 of this volume, Butmi wrote: + + "The French Revolution, which ended in the execution of Louis XVI + in 1793, was engineered by England with the aid of the Jews and the + Judaized Masons. Only the Jews profited by the French Revolution, + even as they profited by the English Revolution, attaining in the + general turmoil equal rights with the native population of France." + +Discussing the traits of the English people and finding a similarity +between them and the Jews, Butmi said on page 38: + + "The British traits are well known all over the world--their + exceptional selfishness, their inhuman cruelty to foreigners, their + inherent instinct of exploitation, their theoretical stupidity are + mingled with practical shrewdness and utter brazenness." + +On page 39 he said: + + "Meanwhile the Britons have not distinguished themselves in + anything, if we are not to take into consideration the fact that + being thoroughly incapable of creating their own language, they + have by their talent to distort languages given to the present + English people a repulsive Judeo-Carthaginian imprint through their + shameless self-satisfaction, arrogance and treacherous + inclinations." + +On page 41 he said: + + "In 1843 the first lodge of the new Jewish union 'Bnai Brith' was + organized in New York. Gradually this Jewish 'Bnai Brith' + concentrates in its hands the direction of all Masonic lodges in + America, and through them it directs American politics." + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF A NILUS PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1905. PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE +BOOK IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.] + +[Transliteration: +-364- + +Kto zapodozrit togda, chto vse eti problemy byli podstroeny +nami po politicheskomu planu, kotorago nikto ne +raskusil v techenii mnogih vekov?!. .... + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my vocarimsja nam ne zhelatel'no budet sushhestvovanie +drugoj religii, krome nashej o Edinom Boge, +s Kotorym nasha sud'ba svjazana ego izbraniem i Kotorym +ta zhe nasha sud'ba ob'edinena s sud'bami mira. +Poetomu my dolzhny razrushit' vsjakija verovanija. +Esli ot etogo rodjatsja sovremennye ateisty, to, kak perehodnaja +stupen' eto ne pomeshaet nashim vidam, a posluzhit +primerom dlja teh pokolenij, kotoryja budut +slushat' propovedi nashi o religii Moiseja, +privedshej svoej stojkoj i obdumannoj sistemoj +k pokoreniju nam vseh narodov. V etom my +podcherknem i misticheskuju eja pravdu, v kotoroj, skazhem +my, osnovyvaetsja vsja eja vospitatel'naja sila.... . +Togda pri kazhdom sluchae my budem publikovat' stat'i, +v kotoryh budem sravnivat' nashe blagoe pravlenie s +proshlymi. Blagodejanija pokoja, hotja i vynuzhdennago vekami +volnenij, posluzhat k novomu rel'efu skazannago blaga. +Oshibki goevskih administracij budut opisyvat'sja nami +v samyh jarkih kraskah. My poseem takoe k nim +otvrashhenie, chto narody predpochtut pokoj v krepostnom +sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, stol' +ih izmuchivshim i istoshhivshim samye istochniki chelovecheskago +sushhestvovanija, kotorye eksploatirovalis' tolpoju +prohodimcev, ne vedavshih, chto tvorjat...... Bezpoleznyja +peremeny pravlenij, k kotorym my podbivali goev, +kogda podkapyvali ih gosudarstvennyja zdanija, do togo nadoedjat +k tomu vremeni narodam, chto oni predpochtut +terpet' ot nas vse, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytyvat' +perezhityja volnenija i nevzgody. My zhe osobenno budem +podcherkivat' istoricheskija oshibki goevskih pravlenij, +stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo otsutstviem + +-365- + +soobrazitel'nosti vo vsem, chto kasaetsja istinnago ego +blaga, v pogone za fantasticheskimi proektami social'nyh +blag, ne zamechaja, chto eti proekty vse bolee uhudshali, +a ne uluchshali polozhenie vseobshhih otnoshenij, na kotoryh +osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'... + +Vsja sila nashih principov i meroprijatij budet zakljuchena +v tom, chto oni nami vystavjatsja i istolkujutsja, +kak jarkij kontrast razlozhivshimsja starym porjadkam +obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' vse nedostatki goevskih +verovanij, no nikto nikogda ne stanet obsuzhdat' +nashu veru s eja istinnoj tochki zrenija, tak kak ee +nikto osnovatel'no ne uznaet, krome nashih, kotorye +nikogda ne posmejut vydat' eja tajny. + +V stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi, my sozdali +bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu. +Eshhe nekotoroe vremja posle vstuplenija nashego +vo vlast' my stanem pooshhrjat' eja sushhestvovanie, +chtoby ona rel'efnee obrisovala kontrast +rechej, programm, kotoryja razdadutsja s vysot +nashih....... Nashi umnye ljudi, vospitannye dlja +rukovodstva gojami, budut sostavljat' rechi, proekty, +zapiski, stat'i, kotorymi my budem vlijat' na +umy, napravljaja ih k namechennym nami ponjatijam +i znanijam. + + +Eshhe protokol. + +Kogda my, nakonec okonchatel'no vocarimsja pri pomoshhi +gosudarstvennyh perevorotov, vsjudu podgotovlennyh +k odnomu i tomu zhe dnju, posle okonchatel'nago priznanija +negodnosti vseh sushhestvujushhih pravitel'stv (a +do etogo projdet eshhe ne malo vremeni, mozhet byt' i +celyj vek), my postaraemsja, chtoby protiv nas uzhe ne +bylo zagovorov. Dlja etogo my nemiloserdno kaznim vseh +kto vstretit nashe vocarenie s oruzhiem v rukah. Vsjakoe +novoe uchrezhdenie kakogo-libo tajnago obshhestva budet +] + +[_Translation of the Nilus Protocol published in Russia in 1905._] + +"When we become rulers, we shall regard as undesirable the existence of +any religion except our own, proclaiming one God with Whom our fate is +tied as the Chosen People, and by Whom our fate has been made one with +the fate of the world. For this reason we must destroy all other +religions. If thereby should emerge contemporary atheists, then, as a +transition step, this will not interfere with our aims. It will serve as +an example to coming generations who will listen to the teachings of the +Mosaic religion. By its sound and reasonable system, we have achieved +the subjugation of all nations. We shall emphasize its mystic law in +which we will say lies all power. + +"On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will compare our +beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of peace, though achieved +through centuries of turmoil, will stand out in relief in this era of +blessings. The shortcomings of the Gentile administrations will be +pictured by us in the darkest colors. We will sow such antipathy toward +their governments that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of +servitude to the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them +and destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were +exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were doing. +The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of +administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were +undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate +anything from us rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and +hardships. We will especially emphasize the historical mistakes of the +Gentile administrations which caused mankind to suffer for many +centuries through lack of real understanding in all that concerned its +true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of social welfare and not +noticing that these projects made worse instead of better the state of +general relationships which are the basis of human existences. + +"The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie in that they +are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp contrast to the old and +decayed order of society. + +"Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the Gentile +religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion from the +true point of view except our own people. We shall have a fundamental +knowledge of it and will never dare to disclose its secrets. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transliteration: + +75 + +N 17. + +(po rukopisi protokol 16-j). + + +Kogda my vocarimsja, my budem pri kazhdom udobnom sluchae +sravnivat' Nashe blagoe Pravlenie s proshlymi bezalabernymi +administracijami... Oshibki goevskih carstv budut opisyvat'sja +nami v samyh jarkih kraskah: my poseem takoe +prezrenie i otvrashhenie k nim, chto narody predpochtut pokoj +i mir v krepostnom sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, +stol' izmuchivshej ih v techenie vekov, istoshhiv samye +istochniki sushhestvovanija, popiraemye prohodimcami, ne vedajushhimi, +chto tvorjat. + +Bezpoleznyja, de fakto, peremeny pravlenij, na kotoryja my +ih podbivali, kogda podkapyvali ih stroj, do togo im nadoedjat +do teh por, chto oni predpochtut prinjat' vse to, chto +my im navjazhem, lish' by ne riskovat' pereispytat' perezhityja +nevzgody i volnenija, tem bolee, chto my budem, publichnoju +kritikoj, osobenno podcherkivat' oshibki upravlenija goevskih +pravlenij, stol'ko vekov promuchivshih chelovechestvo +nedostatkom soobrazitel'nosti na istinnyja blaga, v pogone za +fantasticheskimi social'nymi uluchshenijami, ne zamechaja, chto, uluchshaja +byt nekotoryh, mery eti uhudshali vseobshhija otnoshenija +i porjadok stroja, na kotorom osnovyvaetsja chelovecheskaja zhizn'. + +Nashi principy i mery budut imet' v svoju pol'zu to, chto +oni budut istolkovany i vystavleny, kak kontrast s razlozhivshimsja +starym porjadkam obshhestvennago stroja. + +Nashi filosofy budut obsuzhdat' i kritikovat' vse nedostatki +goevskih verovanij, v chem oni nam otvetit' ne mogut +po otnosheniju Nashej Very, potomu chto nikto eja tajn ne +znaet, krome nashih talmudistov i ravvinov, a oni nikogda +ne vydadut ih, potomu chto na nih osnovana sila upravlenija +pastvoju nashej. + +My sozdali bezumnuju, grjaznuju, otvratitel'nuju literaturu, +osobenno v stranah, nazyvaemyh peredovymi. Posle vstuplenija +nashego vo vlast' my nekotoroe vremja ne zapretim eja, no +budem ee iskorenjat' strogoju kritikoj, chtoby ona, kak ostatok +goevskih ruin, rel'efnee obrisovyvala kontrast togo, +chto razdavat'sja budet s Nashej Vysoty, s tem, chto iskhodilo +iz grjaznago bolota goevskih carstv. +] + + "In countries that are called advanced, we have created a + senseless, filthy, and disgusting literature. For a short time + after our entrance into power, we shall encourage its existence so + that it may show in great relief the contrast between it and the + written and spoken announcements which will emanate from our + exalted position. Our wise men, educated for leadership of the + Gentiles, will prepare speeches, plans, notes, and articles, + through which we shall influence their minds, directing them along + the lines of knowledge and understanding which we intend them to + follow." + +[_Translation of the same Protocol published by Butmi in Russia in 1907, +showing the changes made in the Protocols within two years._] + + "When we become rulers, we shall at each suitable occasion compare + our beneficent rule with the former unsystematic + administrations.... The mistakes of the administrations of the + Gentiles will be pictured by us in the most lurid colors: we will + sow such antipathy and hatred toward these governments that the + masses will prefer peace and quiet in a condition of servitude to + the rights of the so-called liberty which for many ages had so + tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human existence + and which were exploited by adventurers, who did not realize what + they were doing. + + "The masses will become so satiated with the useless changes of + administration, which we instigated when we were undermining their + institutions, that they will accept anything that we may give them + rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and disorder.... + Moreover, we will, through public criticism, especially emphasize + the mistakes of the Gentile administrations which caused mankind to + suffer for many centuries through lack of real understanding in all + that concerned its true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of + social welfare and not noticing that these projects made worse + instead of better the state of general relationships which are the + basis of human existence. + + "Our principles and faith will be especially useful inasmuch as + they will be put forward and interpreted by us as a contrast to the + old and decayed order of society. + + "Our philosophers will discuss and criticise the shortcomings of + the Gentile religions, but the latter will not be able to answer + with regard to our faith, for no one is acquainted with its + mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists, and they will never + reveal it, for on them depends the power of guiding our flock. + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF NILUS PROTOCOL WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1905 AND CHANGED BY +BUTMI IN 1907.] + +[Transliteration: + +-345- + +hitrost'ju i pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij, +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja "oficial'nym jazykom", +my budem derzhat'sja protivopolozhnoj taktiki i +budem kazat'sja chestnymi i sgovorchivymi. Takim obrazom +narody i pravitel'stva goev, kotoryh my priuchili +smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju storonu togo, chto my im +predstavljaem, primut nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej +roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my dolzhny byt' +v sostojanii otvetit' vojnoj s sosedjami toj +strane, kotoraja osmelitsja nam protivodejstvovat', +no, esli i sosedi eti zadumajut stat' +kollektivno protiv nas, to my dolzhny dat' +otpor vseobshhej vojnoj. + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slovo ne dolzhno soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomata. + +K dejstvijam v pol'zu shiroko zadumannago nami +plana, uzhe blizjashhagosja k vozhdelennomu koncu, my dolzhny +vynuzhdat' goevskija pravitel'stva jakoby obshhestvennym +mneniem, vtajne podstroennym nami +pri pomoshhi tak nazyvaemoj "velikoj derzhavy"--pechati, +kotoraja, za nemnogimi iskljuchenijami, +s kotorymi schitat'sja ne stoit,--vsja +uzhe v rukah nashih. + +Odnim slovom, chtoby rezjumirovat' nashu sistemu obuzdanija +goevskih pravitel'stv v Evrope my odnomu iz +nih pokazhem svoju silu pokushenijami, t.e. terrorom, +a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie protiv nas', my +otvetim Amerikanskimi ili Kitajskimi, ili +Japonskimi pushkami. + + + +Sledujushhij protokol. + +My dolzhny zaruchit'sja dlja sebja vsemi orudijami, kotorymi +nashi protivniki mogli by vospol'zovat'sja protiv +nas. My dolzhny budem vyiskivat' v samyh tonkih +vyrazhenijah i zagvozdkah pravovogo slovarja opravdanija +] + + "We have created a senseless, filthy and disgusting literature, + especially in the so-called advanced countries. For a short time + after our entrance into power we will not prohibit this literature, + but will weed it out by means of destructive criticism, in order + that, as a remnant of the Gentile ruins, there should be a stronger + contrast between the literature that will come down from Our Height + and that which emanated from the filthy mud of the Gentile + governments." + +[Illustration: Cyrillic + +FACSIMILE OF BUTMI PROTOCOL PUBLISHED IN 1907, SHOWING THE CHANGE MADE +AFTER THE REVOLUTION.] + +[Transliteration: +52 + +Dlja dostizhenija etogo, po vsej Evrope, a s pomoshh'ju eja otnoshenij +i na drugih kontinentah, my dolzhny sozdat' brozhenija, +prerekanija, razdory i vrazhdu. V etom--dvojakaja pol'za: vo +pervyh, my derzhim v strahe vse strany, horosho vedajushhija, +chto my vlastny proizvesti po zhelaniju bezporjadki ili vodvorit' +porjadok v nih. One privykli videt' v nas neobhodimoe +davlenie: _my zaputali vse niti, protjanutyja v Gosudarstvennye +Kabinety vsemirnoju politikoj, ekonomicheskimi dogovorami +ili dolgovymi objazatel'stvami_. Dlja dostizhenija etogo +poslednjago obstojatel'stva nam nado bylo vooruzhit'sja bol'shoju +hitrost'ju i dazhe pronyrlivost'ju vo vremja peregovorov i soglashenij: +no v tom, chto nazyvaetsja official'nym jazykom, +my dolzhny byli kazat'sja sgovorchivymi i pravdivymi. Takim +obrazom goi, _kotoryh my priuchili smotret' tol'ko na pokaznuju +storonu togo, chto my im predstavljaem_, prinimajut +nas eshhe za blagodetelej i spasitelej roda chelovecheskago. + +Na kazhdoe protivodejstvie my gotovy otvetit' protivodejstvujushhej +Strane vojnoju s sosedjami, a esli mnogie zadumajut +kollektivno dejstvovat' protiv nas, to my zavjazhem uzel +vseobshhej vojny, i nezametno dlja nih podob'em ih na eto... + +Glavnyj uspeh v politike zakljuchaetsja v tajne eja predprijatij: +slova ne dolzhny soglasovat'sja s dejstvijami diplomatov. + +[Transcriber's Note: The following paragraph is circled.] +_My uspeshno vynuzhdali ne raz k vojne goevskija pravitel'stva, +jakoby obshhestvennym mneniem, v tajne podstroennym +nami. Odnomu iz nih my dokazyvali svoi sily v pokushenijah--v +terrore, a vsem, esli dopustit' ih vozstanie, +my otvetim Amerikanskimi, Kitajskimi ili Japonskimi pushkami, +kotoryja vsecelo v nashem rasporjazhenii._ + +N 5. + +(po rukopisi protokol 2-j). + +Nam neobhodimo, chtoby vojny ne davali territorial'nyh +vygod. Eto pereneset vojnu na ekonomicheskuju pochvu, na kotoroj +nacii ubedjatsja v tom, chto preobladanie zavisit ot +_nashej pomoshhi_, a takoe polozhenie veshhej otdast obe storony v +rasporjazhenie nashej internacional'noj agentury, obladajushhej +millionami glaz, vzorov, ne pregrazhdennyh nikakimi granicami... +Togda nashi internacional'nyja prava sotrut vse narodnyja +prava i budut imi pravit' tak, kak grazhdanskoe +] + +Thus it is seen that Butmi, publishing his version of the "protocols" in +1907, two years after the Nilus version had appeared, changed the text +to suit his purposes. In 1905, before the first Russian revolution, the +Nilus version of the "protocols" said "_we will show one of them our +strength by means of violence, that is, by terrorism_." After the +revolution, Butmi changed this sentence to read "_We have shown one of +these governments our powers by assassination, by terrorism_." + +And now the introducers of the "protocols" in this country and in Europe +are pointing to bolshevism as the fulfillment of the "documents" which +have been concocted, elaborated and changed by antisemites to serve the +devious political purposes of their masters and their own. + +The "protocols" came into the world with the trademark, "made in +Germany" and were elaborated under the auspices of the "Russian Black +Hundreds" in their efforts to save the dying Russian autocracy. When the +Russian autocracy was overthrown and members of the "Black Hundreds" +were scattered in various lands, their financial and "moral" support +shattered, they set out in quest of new sources of income. They are now +resorting to their old discredited methods in a new environment and thus +the poison of the Russian Black Hundreds is being spread in England, +Germany, France, the Scandinavian countries, Japan, and even in this +country. The voice is the voice of dead despotic Russia, and the hand is +the hand of the same "Black Hundreds." + +And now cowardly anonymous writers are embellishing the "protocols," +adding new lies to the old ones, making accusations against the Jews +that even Nilus-Lutostansky-Butmi dared not make in darkest Russia. +Perhaps some day these new legends and absurd, malicious myths may +evolve into a new and revised edition of secret Jewish "protocols." + +In periods of turmoil and unrest such venomous fabrications may gain +credence among the ignorant and may poison their minds. But, like all +anti-semitic myths of old, the new anti-Jewish legends are bound to +destroy themselves. A lie shuns the sunlight. It thrives in darkness. It +cannot survive analysis. The truth will prevail. + +Israel has no secret protocols, no hidden designs. After all its +tribulations, its dream is still of peace, of justice and of human +brotherhood. After all the centuries the word that came from Sinai and +the message of the prophets of old are still enshrined in its heart. +Indeed as has been aptly said: "The Holy Scriptures are the only +authentic protocols of the Wise Men of Zion." + +THE END + + + + +Books From +translated by HERMAN BERNSTEIN the Russian + + +=RESURRECTION. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1900.) It depicts with +a master hand the ocean of life rocked by storm and lulled to sleep and +ease. In the splash of every wave is heard the story of human emotions, +misery, disenchantment, suffering, crime, and life, that is true--even in +art. Illustrated. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +="FOMA GORDEYEV." By Maxim Gorky.= (Published 1901.) This book made +Gorky's literary reputation in Russia, Germany and France. It is a most +remarkable novel. The New York _Evening Post_ says: + + "Maxim Gorky, the young Russian poet of the vagabond and the + proletariat, the most ardent worshipper at the shrine of Nietzsche + and his ideal 'Over-Man,' owes much of his sudden popularity to his + personality. The son of a poor upholsterer, Gorky was thrown upon + his own resources at the age of nine and since then has experienced + a wide range of human emotions, struggles, depravity and misery. + Shoemaker, apple peddler, painter, dock-hand, railroad workman, + baker and tramp, this unique author had a thousand and one similar + occupations, and had even made more than one attempt to take his + own life." + +This version of =Foma Gordeyev=, is in no way abridged, giving the exact +reproduction of the thought and expression of the author. Cloth bound. +Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED. By Leonid Andreyev.= (Published 1909.) What +reviewers say: + + "It is by reason of its art even more real, more horrifying, more + impressive than any other Russian fiction translated in a long + time. Under the crystal simplicity of Andreyev's style each spirit + reveals itself, stripped of its bodily covering, in its inmost + truth."--=New York Times.= + + "Grewsome because it is fearfully real. But it is compelling for + the same reason."--=New York World.= + + "It is not a mere morbid probing into the abnormal and horrible. It + has its mission. It is a grim and terrible picture, and it is + painted with tremendous art--the art of a Dore."--=Chicago + Inter-Ocean.= + +Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + +=THE FORGED COUPON. By Count Leo Tolstoi.= (Published 1912.) This story +shows the successive evil and wrong resulting from the forging of a bank +note by a student in need of money. Numerous crimes succeed each other +as a result of this first wrong act, until the wave of crime is checked +by a poor, ignorant woman and a lame tailor, who follow the real +teaching of Christ. The book contains also =After the Ball=, a story of +love and military life; =Korney Vasilyev=, a story of peasant life; +=Tolstoi's Vital Humanitarian Ideas=, giving the very essence of the +fountain-spring and incentive of all the literary work ever written by +this wonderful man--a peep, as it were, at the power-works of his +thinking machine. Cloth bound. Price, $1.00; postpaid. + + * * * * * + +=J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 57 Rose Street, NEW YORK= + + +[Transcriber's note: The following apparent misprints were +corrected for this electronic edition. + +"answered the learned Polish Jew" + --was "answerd" +"reactionary Chernsk nobility made" + --was "Chersnk" +"Constantinople!" + --was "Constaninople" +"Our nation is ostentatious and greedy..." + --was missing opening single quote +"sole possessors of all the gold to be found on earth" + --were two blank lines between "all the gold" and "to be found" +"free-thinking, scepticism, and conflicts." + --was "scepticsm" +"tremendous capital which is in their possession" + --was "possesson" +"Russia adopted a definite, anti-Jewish policy of vengeance" + --was "vengenance" +"less cultured and civilized that the English" + --left as printed (unverifiable translation) +"mysteries except our Rabbis and Talmudists" + --was "Tadmudists" +"historical mistakes of the Gentile" + --was "Gentle" +"must try to humiliate it, we must instil into it free-thinking" + --left as printed +"The name of the notorious Alexey Nikolayevitch Sukhotin" + --was "Nikolayevtich" +Any misprints in Cyrillic facsimile pages are left uncorrected. +The capitalization and hyphenation of anti-Semitic (and variants) +is inconsistent throughout, and left as printed.] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The History of a Lie, by Herman Bernstein + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF A LIE *** + +***** This file should be named 19200.txt or 19200.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/0/19200/ + +Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Jonathan Niehof, the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net, +Nikola Smolenski, cinnabar, and Distributed Proofreaders +Europe at http://dp.rastko.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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