Great source-find, Jonathan!
==Dan P
 
 
At 01:05 AM 11/26/99 -1000, you wrote:
>One of my spare-time minor fascinations has been radio broadcast 78,
>"Zion," Doob pp. 283-85. This speech begins:
>
>"If or when one mentions the Protocols alleged to be of the Elders of Zion,
>one is frequently met with the reply: Oh, but they are a forgery.
>
>"Certainly they are a forgery, and that is the one proof we have of their
>authenticity. The Jews have worked with forged documents for the past 24
>hundred years, namely ever since they have had any documents whatever."
>
>But why fascination? Because it's sometimes seemed possible to me that that
>line about forgery being the proof of authenticity is a link forward from
>Pound to Derrida, and that that link in turn might be connectible to the
>chain backward from Pound to Fenollosa.
>
>Wrong. It appears that all we have here is a bit of influence study. The
>likely source:
>
> "To what extent the whole existence of this people [Jews] is based on a
>continuous lie is shown incomparably by *The Protocols of the Wise Men of
>Zion*, so infinitely hated by the Jews.  They are based on a forgery, the
>*Frankfurter Zeitung* moans and screams once every week: the best proof
>that they are authentic.  What many Jews may do unconsciously is here
>consciously exposed.  And that is what matters.  It is completely
>indifferent from what Jewish brain these disclosures originate; the
>important thing is that with positively terrifying certainty they reveal
>the nature and activity of the Jewish people and expose their inner
>contexts as well as their ultimate final aims."
>
>That's _Mein Kampf_: p. 307 of the Ralph Manheim translation.* I suppose
>it's possible that by 1943 the idea was in general circulation in the Axis
>world. Oh, why can't we ask Professor Heidegger?
>
>Jonathan Morse
>
>* Houghton Mifflin 1943? I've ripped this quote off from Gordon Fisher of
>list H-Antisemitism, but he doesn't specify the edition he used.
>
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