"JEWISH COPY" of PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION 1923 Die Protokolle - Rosenberg

 A library can often be a prism to view its owner's life, interests and convictions, and acquiring libraries daily can often lead to some interesting surprises. Did German Jews in the Nazi Era read Nazi Propaganda? Was it taboo for a Jew to own Anti-Semitic conspiracy publications? A library of a German Jew I recently acquired gave insights in to one man's approach to such things.

Aside from his owning several classic as well as obscure Anti-Semitic publications, I found in the collection, a copy of the notorious Anti-Semitic Propaganda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This edition was in the German translation of Alfred Rosenberg, the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and war criminal during the Nazi era.

Printed in 1923, while Hitler was still a relatively minor figure in Germany, Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion und die jüdische Weltpolitik became an instant success and was reprinted numerous times through the Nazi Era.

Facing the title page of this copy, on the wrappers, we find an advertisement for an early Pro-Hitler book, Adolf Hitlers Ziele und Persönlichkeit (Adolf Hitler's goals and personality) by Johannes Stark.
This copy though found itself in rather unusual company, with a Jewish Ownership and bound by the former owner with 4 Rabbinical German Jewish publications. The books that were bound in include a book of Rabbinic Jewish Parables, a Defense of Shechitah, a Guide to Hebrew and a German translation of a Medrash, Lekach Tov.
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