From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails

Professor Gerald Herman is the co-editor of From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trails(Vallentine Mitchell, 2007). This work investigates the larger question that arose from what is now a century of invective and defense: how do we determine the truth of claims made for (or by, or against) the Holocaust in various media from outright forgeries like the “Protocols of the ‘Elders of Zion’” to negationist literature to the legal trials held to adjudicate such claims. In this series of short essays, each author explores the methods and assumptions within their disciplines that frame the way in which we come to understand the racism and anti-Semitism which rest beneath Holocaust denial.