A Rumor about the Jews by Stephen Eric Bronner

Author:Stephen Eric Bronner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319953960
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Antisemitism was rife in Russia following the catastrophic war with Japan. Between 1905 and 1906, Russia witnessed the dissemination of over 14 million copies of roughly 3000 antisemitic books and pamphlets with the czar himself contributing over 12 million rubles to the enterprise.54 Accusations by influential governmental officials associated with the Black Hundreds concerning the “blood libel,” the belief that Jews murdered Christian youths for the use of their blood in secret rituals, created an international scandal during the notorious Beiliss Affair of 1911.55 Occasional pogroms continued to take place while Imperial Russia experienced the torpor perhaps best illustrated in the plays of Anton Chekhov. The Protocols went into hibernation. And that is unsurprising: the pamphlet had no purpose to serve during these years of relative quiet. This would change soon enough.

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