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Contents

1 Introduction: The Protocols at the Dawn of the 21st Century

PART I . Conceptual Prelude: On Paranoid Politics and Apocalyptic Violence

2 The Melian Dialogue, the Protocols, and the Paranoid Imperative

3 The Apocalyptic Other: On Paranoia and Violence

PART II. Medieval Prologue: Cosmic Christian Anxiety and Global Modern Paranoia

4 The Devil’s Hoofs: The Medieval Roots of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

5 Thomas of Monmouth and the Protocols of the Sages of Narbonne

PART III. The Early Years: The Apocalyptic Matrix of Genesis and Launch

6 “The Antichrist as an Imminent Political Possibility”: Sergei Nilus and the Apocalyptical Reading of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

7 Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Thoughts on the French Connection

8 “Jewish World Conspiracy” and the Question of Secular Religions: An Interpretative Perspective

9 The Turning Point: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Eschatological War between Aryans and Jews

PART IV. Post-Holocaust Protocols: Non-Western Variations

10 The Protocols in Japan

11 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: An Authentic Document in Palestinian Authority Ideology

PART V. Protocols at the Turn of the Millennium: The Return of the Repressed

12 Anti-Semitism from Outer Space: The Protocols in the UFO Subculture

13 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on the Contemporary American Scene: Historical Artifact or Current Threat?

14 Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium

PART VI . Quo Vadis? How to Respond to the Return of the Protocols

15 Conspiracy Then and Now: History, Politics, and the Anti-Semitic Imagination

16 Jewish Self-Criticism, Progressive Moral Schadenfreude, and The Suicide of Reason: Reflections on the Protocols in the “Postmodern” Era

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