The Protocols, or The Protocols of Zion, are the briefest two common English language titles of the writing more popularly known in the United States as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or as the Protocols of the wise men of Zion, the latter being the "Uniform Title" adopted for the text by the Library of Congress. The actual writing is quite brief, barely sufficient for a substantial pamphlet. It is, however, when re-issued, most often augmented with supplementary material or commentary consisting of a preface, introduction, table of contents, postscript, appendix, conclusion, etc., thereby enabling its publication in book form.

Substantial source of The Protocols

This is the source of the plagiarism:

1864

• Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique de Machiavel

By Maurice Joly

System number 000769724

Title Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique de Machiavel:

au XIXe siècle, par un contemporain [i.e. Maurice Joly].

Publisher/year kpp. iii. 337. Bruxelles, 1864.

Physical descr. 12º.

Added name JOLY, Maurice.

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. Appendix.

SECONDAT, Charles Louis de, Baron de Montesquieu. Appendix.

Added Entry CONTEMPORAIN main entry

Holdings (All) Details

Shelfmark C.37.e.37. Request

British Library Record:

The Protocols

What follows is a chronological listing of the historically significant publications and compilations of this text:

In the Russian Empire

1903

• Programa zavoevanija mira evrejami (romanized title of newspaper headline)

The Jewish Programme to Conquer the World (translation of title)

The Protocols of the Sessions of the "World Alliance of Freemasons and of the Sages of Zion" (alleged title of The Protocols)

Related name (publisher): Pavel Krushevan

In Znamya (newspaper) (Russian)

9 issues:

No. 190 (28 August [10 September]): 2; 2,

No. 191 (29 August [11 September]): 2; 3,

No. 192 (30 August [12 September]): 2; 4,

No. 193 (31 August [13 September]): 1–2; 5,

No. 194 (1 [14] September): 1–2; 6,

No. 195 (2 [15] September): 1–2; 7,

No. 196 (3 [16] September): 2; 8,

No. 197 (4 [17] September): 2; 9,

No. 200 (7 [20] September): 2.

1905

Velikoe v malom i antikhrist,

kak blizkaia politicheskaia vozmozhnost. Zapiski pravoslavnago.

(The Great within the Minuscule.)

by Sergiei Nilus, 1862–1930.

Edition 2. izd., ispr. i dop.

Imprint TSarskoe Selo, Tip. TSarskoselskago Komiteta Krasnago Kresta, 1905.

Description 417 p.

1906

• Vragi roda cheloviecheskago' (romanized title)

(Title translation: Enemies of the Human Race)

Related name (anonymous editor): G. Butmi.

LC Uniform Title: Protocols of the wise men of Zion

(St. Petersberg: Soiuz russkogo naroda, 1906)

p. x, 88 24 cm.

LC Classification: DS141 .B97 1906

In the United States (1919–)

1920.1

The Protocols and World Revolution

Related name: (anonymous editor): Boris Brasol

(Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1920)

[First American edition]

1920.2

Praemonitus Praemunitus

Related name (anonymous editor): Harris A. Houghton

(New York: The Beckwith Company, 1920)

[Second American Edition]

1920.3

The International Jew: The World's Problem

(The Dearborn Independent)

1920–1922.4

The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (Volume 1) (1920)

Jewish Activities in the United States (Volume 2) (1921)

Jewish Influence in American Life (Volume 3) (1921)

Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States (Volume 4) (1922)

In Great Britain (1920–)

1920.4

The Jewish Peril

Related name (anonymous translator): George Shanks

(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1920)

trans. George Shanks

[First British Edition]

1920.5

The Cause of World Unrest

Related name: ed. & intro. Howell Arthur Gwynne

At the Library of Congress:

LC Control No.: 20019293

Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)

Main Title: The cause of world unrest; with an introduction by the editor of "The Morning post."

Published/Created: London, G. Richards, ltd., 1920.

Description: 269, [1] p. 20 cm.

Notes: "The main outline of the contents of this book is, in brief,

that there has been for centuries a hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish,

whose objects have been and are to produce :revolution, communism and anarchy."--Pref.

Subjects: Freemasons.

Jewish question.

Communism.

LC Classification: DS141 .C25 1920

Other System No.: (OCoLC)4811891

1923

Protocols of the meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

Author: Victor E. Marsden, Victor E. Marsden

Language: English

Place of publication: London

Publisher: The Britons

Year of publication: 1923

Protocols of the Meetings of of the Learned Elders of Zion

Translated from the Russian Text by Victor E. Marsden

(London: The Britons, 1923)

Singerman annotation: The Marsden translation has become the standard English Text.

1958

World Conquest Through World Government: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

The earliest imprint in the British Library is as follows:

System number 002659964

Author — personal NILUS, Sergei Aleksandrovich.

Title World Conquest through World Government. The protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

Translated ... by Victor E. Marsden, etc. (Eighty-first impression.).

Publisher/year pp. 104. Britons Publishing Society: London, 1958.

In the United States (1934–)

1934

United We Fall, Divided We Stand

The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion

Translated from the Russian by Victor E. Marsden

Formerly Russian Correspondent of "The Morning Post"

With Preface and Explanatory Notes.

(Chcago: The Patriotic Publishing Co., 1934)

Notes