I've stated before the Edsel B. Grimshaw review and the McKay's Magazine pages are probably clues or rules to play the entire game.
Edsel B. Grimshaw is a reference to Henry Ford and was the focus of the last clue I gave. Perhaps Ford was a bit problematic. No question, he wrote several tracts of anti-Semetic literature from 1920 to 1922 after being introduced to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and maybe what readers I do have flinched and understandably so, not realizing the history of the book itself was an important clue. Or perhaps they got hung up on the timelines, not realizing the connections zoom back and forth into the the past and present. The connections do not form a straight line through history, but zigzag.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is infamous. It's history begins long before its inception. It's basically a mishmash of previous writings, some of it is taken from a German novelist who wrote books that were clearly antisemitic and yet other portions were taken from a book critical of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The book consists of 24 "protocols" and was printed as part of a larger document in Germany in 1920, but the document itself was dated 1919 and translated from earlier Russian editions from 1902 and 1903. Other versions also made their way to the U.S. in 1919. First in government circles and then serialized in an American newspaper with terms relating to Jews replaced with "Bolsheviki."
And it continues to be taken seriously today, even though Phillip Graves was able to prove the fraud in the 1920s. Hitler made the Protocols required reading for German school children and felt that the accusations of forgery only served to prove its authenticity. It was a primary factor in the creation of the Holocaust.
It has a literary geneaology that plagairizes from Eugene Sue, Hermann Goedsche, Maurice Joly and Theodor Herzl and continues to present day with analysis from Umberto Eco in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. It is Eco's fascination with fictional histories and the literary geneaology of the Protocols that initially led me to believe I was on the right track. Perhaps the McKay's review was made after the release of Eco's The Prague Cemetery in 2010 or when the English translation was published in 2011.
It was Goedsche's Biarritz and the chapter within titled "The Jewish Cemetery in Prague and the Council of Representatives of the Twelve Tribes of Israel" that started it all. And that is where I started looking. But this narrative didn't end in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, it ended in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
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| Holocaust Memorial, New Jewish Cemetery, Prague Photo from www.praguecityline.com Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee - Deuteronomy 32:7 |
