The History of a Lie, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion

by Herman Bernstein, John Retcliffe

This book is an illustrated version of the original The History of a Lie by Herman Bernstein. “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.”

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

Herman Bernstein was an American journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Albania and was the founder of The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper.

Born on the Russo-German border (today Lithuania), he and his family emigrated to the United States in 1893.

Reviews

[Fred Kohn]

Herman Bernstein was one of the first to expose the Protocols as a forgery. But he, apparently, was not the first to uncover the Protocols's dependence on Joly's Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. That honor, as far as I can tell, belongs to Philip Graves, a journalist for the London-based newspaper The Times who published a series of articles in 1921 exposing the Protocols' dependence on the Dialogue. Bernstein in this work says nothing about the Protocols' dependence on the Dialogue, instead focusing on the Protocols' dependence on Hermann Goedsche's novel Biarritz. Bernstein reproduces in full the chapter "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel," describing a meeting a Prague Jewish cemetery of the Elders of Zion, which supposedly takes place every one hundred years between representatives of the Twelve Tribes and Satan. The Elders discuss their plans for world domination which includes frequent references to gold and to the press.

Bernstein also makes reference to a document called "The Rabbi's Speech," included in the book The Enemy of the Human Race, published by G. Butmi in 1907. I found it interesting because "The Rabbi's Speech" makes reference to the Rothschilds. The Rothschilds also appear in the second edition of Nilus's book containing the Protocols: "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." I found these references to the Rothschilds interesting because they are frequently referenced in the antisemitic book The Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand: The Unrevealed in History.

In 1935 Bernstein published The Truth About 'the Protocols of Zion': A Complete Exposure, which *does* examine the relationship between the Protocols and the Dialogue. Bernstein's book also contains an English translation of the Dialogue.

[Charlotte Wenner · Rating 1 out of 5]

The content could have easily be printed on 10 pages instead of 80. Lots of repetition, without any sources, references, or other marks of scholarship.

[Matthew J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Always a good thing to know the origins of nonsense history.

[Leon · Rating 1 out of 5]

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