Steven T. Katz is Slater Professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies and former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. His many publications include The Holocaust in Historical Context.Richard A. Landes is Professor at Boston University and Director and Co-Founder of their Center for Millennial Studies. His publications include The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Studies in the Mutation of European Culture.

• 1 Introduction Richard Landes and Steven T. KatzPart I. 2 The Melian Dialogue, the Protocols, and the Paranoid Imperative Richard Landes 3 The Apocalyptic Other Charles B. StrozierPart II. 4 The Devil's Hoofs Jeffrey R. Woolf 5 Thomas of Monmouth and the Protocols of the Sages of Narbonne Johannes HeilPart III. 6 "The Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility" Michael Hagemeister 7 Protocols of the Elders of Zion Jeffrey Mehlman 8 "Jewish World Conspiracy" and the Question of Secular Religions Paul Zawadski 9 The Turning Point David RedlesPart IV. 10 The Protocols in Japan David G. Goodman 11 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookPart V. 12 Anti-Semitism from Outer Space Michael Barkun 13 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Contemporary American Scene Deborah Lipstadt 14 Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right Chip BerletPart VI. 15 Conspiracy Then and Now Stephen Eric Bronner 16 Jewish Self-Criticism, Progressive Moral Schadenfreude, and the Suicide of Reason Richard Landes About the Contributors Index

A timely and important volume that ought to be essential reading for students and scholars alike. The Shoah did not begin with concentration camps and trains. It began with words and ideas. The lies of the Protocols played a key role in marginalizing and dehumanizing European Jewry, paving the way for their brutal extermination. Remarkably, in the contemporary context, the Protocols are once again becoming widely used as effective propaganda, especially throughout much of the Middle East. . . . This text provides an interdisciplinary, high calibre, scholarly analysis of a subject matter that is under-studied and of profound importance. - Charles Asher Small,Former Executive Director of the Yale Intiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism A set of thoughtful essays that examine the origins and absurd persistence of this influential forgery, informative assessments of the anti-Semitic conspiratorial imagination in Europe, Japan, the United States and in the Middle East, and lively debates about the way Western and Jewish intellectuals have responded to the recent forms in which the old hatred has found expression. - Jeffrey Herf,author of The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propagandad During World War II and the Holocaust