Richard S. Levy

Richard Simon Levy (born May 10, 1940) is a professor of Modern German History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is most noted for his contributions to history in debunking several antisemitic myths, as well as uncovering many others. Levy was featured on a TV documentary concerning The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Deadly Deception, which aired on the History Channel May 11, 1999.

Works

Books

• The downfall of the anti-Semitic political parties in imperial Germany (1975), Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01803-7.
• Antisemitism in the Modern World: An Anthology of Texts (1990), D.C. Heath. ISBN 0-669-24340-X.
• A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1995), University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-9245-7.
• Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution (2005). ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-444-X.

Articles

o "A Lie and a Libel: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Recent History," in L. J. Greenspoon, ed., Representations of Jews Through the Ages (Omaha: Creighton U. Press, 1996), pp. 231–43

o "Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Germany, 1819-1938," in Christhard Hoffmann, et al., eds., Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 185–202

Book Reviews

o Alan Steinweis, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual...
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