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The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zions
A Message from the Anti-Defamation League
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, circulated by the Czarist secret police at the turn of the 20th century, is plainly and simply a plagiarized forgery. "The Protocols" has been a major weapon in the arsenals of anti-Semites around the world, republished and circulated by individuals, hate groups and governments to convince the gullible as well as the bigoted that Jews have schemed and plotted to take over the world.
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, circulated by the Czarist secret police at the turn of the 20th century, is plainly and simply a plagiarized forgery. "The Protocols" has been a major weapon in the arsenals of anti-Semites around the world, republished and circulated by individuals, hate groups and governments to convince the gullible as well as the bigoted that Jews have schemed and plotted to take over the world.
Note from Amazon
Amazon does not endorse The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This book is one of the most infamous, and tragically influential, examples of racist propaganda ever written. It may be useful to some as a tool in the teaching of the history of anti-Semitism, but it's unquestionably propaganda.
Does Amazon sell this book? We do, along with millions of other titles. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is classified under "controversial knowledge" in our store, along with books about UFOs, demonic possession, and all manner of conspiracy theories. You can also find books in other sections of Amazon's online bookstore that analyze The Protocols' fraudulent origins and its tragic historical role in promoting anti-Semitism and Jewish persecution, including A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As a bookseller, Amazon strongly believes that providing open access to written speech, no matter how hateful or ugly, is one of the most important things we do. And because we think the best remedy for offensive speech is more speech, we also make available to readers the ability to make their own voices heard and express their views about this and all our titles in reviews and ratings.
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Matvei Vasilyevich Golovinski
3 books8 followersMatvei Vasilyevich Golovinski (alternatively Mathieu) (Russian: Матвей Васильевич Головинский) (6 March 1865–1920) was a Russian-French writer, journalist and political activist. Critics studying The Protocols of the Elders of Zion have argued that he was the author of the work. This claim is reinforced by the writings of modern Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhine, who in 1999 studied previously closed French archives stored in Moscow containing information supporting Golovinski's authorship. Back in the mid-1930s, Russian testimony in the Berne Trial had linked the head of Russian security service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky, to the creation of The Protocols, probably inspired by the 1865 novel Barritz by Sir John Retcliffe (pen name of novelist and agent provocateur Hermann Goedsche).
Matvei Golovinski was born into an aristocratic family in the village of Ivashevka (Ивашевка), in the Syzransky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasili Golovinski (Василий Головинский) was a friend of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both were members of the progressive Petrashevsky Circle, sentenced to the capital punishment as conspirators and both were pardoned later. Vasili Golovinski died in 1875 and Matvei Golovinski was reared by his mother and the French nanny.
While studying jurisprudence, Golovinski joined an antisemitic counter-revolutionary group Holy Brotherhood ("Святое Братство"). Upon graduation, he worked for the Okhrana, secretly arranging pro-government coverage in the press. Golovinski's career almost collapsed and he had to leave the country after his activities were publicly exposed by Maxim Gorky. In France, he wrote and published articles on assignments of the Chief of Russian secret service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky. He also wrote under the pen name of Doctor Faust.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Golovinsky switched sides and worked for the Bolsheviks until his death in 1920.
The German writer Konrad Heiden identified him as an author of the Protocols in 1944.
Matvei Golovinski was born into an aristocratic family in the village of Ivashevka (Ивашевка), in the Syzransky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasili Golovinski (Василий Головинский) was a friend of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both were members of the progressive Petrashevsky Circle, sentenced to the capital punishment as conspirators and both were pardoned later. Vasili Golovinski died in 1875 and Matvei Golovinski was reared by his mother and the French nanny.
While studying jurisprudence, Golovinski joined an antisemitic counter-revolutionary group Holy Brotherhood ("Святое Братство"). Upon graduation, he worked for the Okhrana, secretly arranging pro-government coverage in the press. Golovinski's career almost collapsed and he had to leave the country after his activities were publicly exposed by Maxim Gorky. In France, he wrote and published articles on assignments of the Chief of Russian secret service in Paris, Pyotr Rachkovsky. He also wrote under the pen name of Doctor Faust.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Golovinsky switched sides and worked for the Bolsheviks until his death in 1920.
The German writer Konrad Heiden identified him as an author of the Protocols in 1944.
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November 22, 2024
EN: An extremely interesting historical document. The lie that it is a hoax, as well as the constant attempts to ban, deny, destroy and even ridicule it, only prove that the book is based on completely real documents and diabolical plans. I read it in my native Bulgarian language in a modern edition, but the first translation was back in 1943, when it was first published in Bulgaria, and there is evidence of earlier translations, albeit unofficial. I highly recommend this book!
БГ: Изключително интересен исторически документ. Лъжата, че е мистификация, както и постоянните опити да бъде забранявана, отричана, унищожавана и дори осмивана, само доказват, че книгата е базирана на съвсем истински документи и нечии пъклени планове. Прочетох я на български език, в съвременно издание, но първият превод е бил още през 1943 година, когато е издадена в България за първи път, като има данни и за по-ранни преводи, макар и неофициални. Горещо препоръчвам тази книга!
БГ: Изключително интересен исторически документ. Лъжата, че е мистификация, както и постоянните опити да бъде забранявана, отричана, унищожавана и дори осмивана, само доказват, че книгата е базирана на съвсем истински документи и нечии пъклени планове. Прочетох я на български език, в съвременно издание, но първият превод е бил още през 1943 година, когато е издадена в България за първи път, като има данни и за по-ранни преводи, макар и неофициални. Горещо препоръчвам тази книга!
April 6, 2025
Since this amateurish and melodramatic forgery was first made available in the early 20th Century by Tsarist operatives and cranks, it has been canonized by spellbound bigots and conspiracy theorists and spread throughout the world, with superfluous addenda, in many forms. So I can't say that I'm reviewing the exact text referred to by this cover. But the core of the document--the 24 "Protocols"--recurs consistently across editions, despite being a multiply translated pastiche of plagiarisms.
That medium certainly is the message. In addition to its reactionary Antisemitism, the text is a tedious slog through incongruous tense shifts, turgid and confusing diction, and prolix repetition to affect the Machiavellian arrogance of its supposed Jewish authors, but which actually reveals the malicious stupidity of the forgers. You will feel dumber after reading it, unless you are a conspiracy theorist, in which case you will react along these lines: "This may not be 100% genuine, but can anyone argue that it doesn't represent the world today?"
Anyone who isn't a superstitious hater, dimly aware that the world is indifferently passing him by, will be able to argue that. If you are a normal person who doesn't research racism, extremism, or conspiracism for a living, you can skip this one. It will suffice to get an idea of the text by trudging through Protocols 10 and 12, and perhaps reading one of the encomia sometimes included as back matter--say, the praiseful 1921 letter to The Spectator by the British colonial administrator and proto-fascist, George Sydenham Clarke.
If you do research these matters, then you ought at least to scan this wretched text that, sadly, has become world-historical scripture for the enemies of liberal democracy and civilization--and, in some ways, defines the worldview of the Trumpian base today.
That medium certainly is the message. In addition to its reactionary Antisemitism, the text is a tedious slog through incongruous tense shifts, turgid and confusing diction, and prolix repetition to affect the Machiavellian arrogance of its supposed Jewish authors, but which actually reveals the malicious stupidity of the forgers. You will feel dumber after reading it, unless you are a conspiracy theorist, in which case you will react along these lines: "This may not be 100% genuine, but can anyone argue that it doesn't represent the world today?"
Anyone who isn't a superstitious hater, dimly aware that the world is indifferently passing him by, will be able to argue that. If you are a normal person who doesn't research racism, extremism, or conspiracism for a living, you can skip this one. It will suffice to get an idea of the text by trudging through Protocols 10 and 12, and perhaps reading one of the encomia sometimes included as back matter--say, the praiseful 1921 letter to The Spectator by the British colonial administrator and proto-fascist, George Sydenham Clarke.
If you do research these matters, then you ought at least to scan this wretched text that, sadly, has become world-historical scripture for the enemies of liberal democracy and civilization--and, in some ways, defines the worldview of the Trumpian base today.
August 5, 2025
found my Archive review from Oct 13 2021,
Do the research yourself. Have you heard that every Jewish person was told to NOT come to work that world changing day of Sept 11. Now we have had a rushed in President whose son in law is Jewish and has his hands in absolutely everything. You have to decide for yourself the truths based on your research. But a quick reminder of how many people died or shall we say were exterminated when Moses left looking for the promised land that their “God” told them they would find…. Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Canaanites, etc etc and generations of the people who sold themselves into slavery to the Egyptians, how many people die each year, each day and what are the holocaust numbers up to now 6 or 9 million and still growing. How many actually died in the camps and if it was a slaughter why were their prisons and camps. What was the world situation before Hitler started his military service? Do your reading, pay attention!
14 July 2020
Quite Interesting and amazingly applicable but who can tell where the original document begins and the translators views end. The base document overall seems to be written to apply to any age and you could just insert whatever names for the current times to generate shock and wonder.
Because of the first suggested publication in 1897 with earlier meetings... it becomes immediately confusing because the translator has added current world known names so that makes you question the already suggested falsity of the group, meetings and subsequent document all of which I knew before reading.
I would recommend that the translators do a little research as to what a GOYIM is. If they spent as much time researching esoteric documents as they did inserting current names they would have been able to see either their translation use is incorrect or perhaps could have suggested it as a derogatory term.
Again, interesting to read and could be applicable but definitely for those conspiratorially minded.
Do the research yourself. Have you heard that every Jewish person was told to NOT come to work that world changing day of Sept 11. Now we have had a rushed in President whose son in law is Jewish and has his hands in absolutely everything. You have to decide for yourself the truths based on your research. But a quick reminder of how many people died or shall we say were exterminated when Moses left looking for the promised land that their “God” told them they would find…. Amalekites, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Canaanites, etc etc and generations of the people who sold themselves into slavery to the Egyptians, how many people die each year, each day and what are the holocaust numbers up to now 6 or 9 million and still growing. How many actually died in the camps and if it was a slaughter why were their prisons and camps. What was the world situation before Hitler started his military service? Do your reading, pay attention!
14 July 2020
Quite Interesting and amazingly applicable but who can tell where the original document begins and the translators views end. The base document overall seems to be written to apply to any age and you could just insert whatever names for the current times to generate shock and wonder.
Because of the first suggested publication in 1897 with earlier meetings... it becomes immediately confusing because the translator has added current world known names so that makes you question the already suggested falsity of the group, meetings and subsequent document all of which I knew before reading.
I would recommend that the translators do a little research as to what a GOYIM is. If they spent as much time researching esoteric documents as they did inserting current names they would have been able to see either their translation use is incorrect or perhaps could have suggested it as a derogatory term.
Again, interesting to read and could be applicable but definitely for those conspiratorially minded.
August 24, 2024
Not sure why the title is misspelt in this edition. Aside from the damage this book did and the influence on the holocaust etc, it is turgid, repetitive and badly written, and contains multiple errors that would be laughable to anyone familiar with Judaism.
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March 2, 2025
it was a fun book
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