Norman Cohn sees the " Protocols" and their efiects as the climax of the long history of antisemitism which began when the Christian sect emerged from the Jewish comniunity in Palestine in the first century C.E., hut he believes that it was not until the twelfth century that the image of the Jew appeared as a " magic " fantasy-the scapegoat for all evils, from poverty to the plague, the fiend who slaughters Christian children and poisons the wells. It seems to be more than a coincidence that the firm of the same name-though now " under new management"-which once published the most dangerous best-seller of modern times presents us now with a comprehensive and Well-documented analysis of the great myth of a Jewish plot to conquer the world. THE PLOT THAT NEVER WAS ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN CREAT BRITAIN New Light on the "Protocols of the Elders ol" Zion" _^ In 1920 a 95-page booklet with the title The Jewish Peril: Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion " appeared in England with the 'piprint of Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., the publishers of the Authorised Version of the Bible 3nd of the Anglican Prayer Book, who were permitted to call themselves " His Ma.iesty's Printers." Now, 47 years and several chapters of violent history later, the firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., London, have published a 300-page work by Professor Norman Cohn: Warrant for Genocide: The ^yth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (45s.).
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