Person

Boris Brasol

Russian monarchist exile who published an American edition of the Protocols, a forgery, in 1920.

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Henry Ford According to E. G. Pipp Scholarship & press 1 2 3
Accounts differ on how the text reached Ford: Pipp and Feldberg say through Brasol; the Holocaust Museum says Ford’s secretary received a copy in June 1920.

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America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist, The Atlantic, 7 Nov 2023. Scholarship & press
The “International Jew” series began around the same time that Brasol’s version of the Protocols was published, and the Independent covered the text extensively.
Titled The Protocols and World Revolution and published in the summer of 1920, the 149-page volume is augmented with anonymous commentary written by Brasol.
a small Boston publishing house agreed to issue the English version.
According to Pipp, Brasol met privately with Liebold and Ford himself on multiple occasions.
Anti-Semitism: The “Protocols” Come to America, by Michael Feldberg, Jewish Virtual Library. Scholarship & press
Brasol sent a copy of the Protocols to automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, who was convinced that they were authentic.
Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
Ford learned about the Protocols in June 1920 when his business secretary, Ernest G. Liebold, received a copy.

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