I was only able to access the Protocols of Elders of Zion and not the other reading. What we know based on the context is that it was first published in Russian in 1897 by Philip Stepanov, for private circulation. Sergei Nilus made a second edition in 1905 when it was published between The Great and the Small. The way this gained popularity in the US was Henry Ford’s involvement, He made sure the text was accessible to the public. Later we found out during class, since the introduction isn’t scholarly, it has less credibility.
This was a pretext for the rationale of anti-Semitism. A lot of stereotypes about Jewish people can be seen in this text. Examples like Jewish people being money hungry and wanting to take over the world are the most prevalent. Even after the whole text was confirmed to be plagiarized from Dialogue from Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, many of the hatred holds on. This later lead to it playing a role in the Holocaust.
