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Protocols of the Elders of Zion: statement on their reliability


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 883

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Protocols of the Elders of Zion: statement on their reliability

Date(s): 1934

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Graves | Philip Perceval | 1876-1953 | journalist and writer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a literary fraud alleging a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination. The writing has been revealed to be originally an antisemitic, and subsequently an anti-Zionist, plagiarism and hoax first published in 1903 in Russian, in Znamya.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of a sworn statement by Philip Perceval Graves, former correspondent of The Times on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 24 Oct 1934, addressed to a court in Berne, Switzerland. The statement confirms that the content of a pamphlet entitled 'The Truth about the 'Protocols'- a Literary Forgery' by Graves, published in The Times, Aug 1921, is true.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Antisemitism | Racial discrimination
Forgery | Crime
Jews | Religious groups
Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Freemasonry

Personal names
Graves | Philip Perceval | 1876-1953 | journalist and writer

Corporate names
The Times | newspaper x Times

Places
Bern | Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe