George Shanks

George Shanks. The true first translator--identified only in 1978--of the Protocols of Zion into the English language for publication by The Britons. Victor E. Marsden's name only came to be associated with the British English language translation of the Protocols in pamphlet or booklet form only three or two or one year(s) after he died in 1920.

Shanks is known to have engaged in a dispute with The Britons over payment of the royalties to which he was entitled regarding their publication of "The Jewish Peril".

Shanks was the son of a well-known English merchant who resided in Moscow. As a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917 the family sustained financial ruin and became refugees in London.

In the United States the initial translation of this notorious anti-Semitic forgery is associated with several names, arguably the most important of the names being Boris Brasol, Natalie de Bogory, and Dr. Harris Ayers Houghton.

Works

*The Jewish Peril. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion:anonymously translated by George Shanks: [A translation of the Russian adaptation of Maurice Joly’s:“Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ... par un Contemporain.”] :(London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1920; First edition):Related name: Nilus, Sergei Aleksandrovich, 1862-1930 [1905 Russian source]

*The Jewish Peril: Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion:anonymously translated by George Shanks: [A translation of the Russian adaptation of Maurice Joly’s:“Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ... par un Contemporain.”] :(London: The Britons, 62 Oxford Street, 1920; Second edition):Related names: Nilus, Sergi︠e︡ĭ Aleksandrovich, 1862-1930 [1905 Russian source]

References

* Sharman Kadish - Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain, and the Russian Revolution - (London: Frank Case, 1992)

* Robert Singerman - "The American Career of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - American Jewish History, Vol. 71 (1981), pp. 48-78

ee also

*The "Morning Post"

External links

* [http://har2.huji.ac.il:83/ALEPH/ENG/SAS/BAS/BAS/FULL/0110974 Library catalogue entry] at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem