George Shanks

The Protocols
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Versions of The Protocols
Contemporary imprints of The Protocols
First publication of The Protocols Programma zavoevaniya mira evreyami
Writers, editors, and publishers associated with The Protocols Carl Ackerman · Boris Brasol G. Butmi · Natalie de Bogory Denis Fahey · Henry Ford · L. Fry Howell Gwynne · Harris Houghton Pavel Krushevan · Victor Marsden Sergei Nilus · George Shanks Fyodor Vinberg · Clyde J. Wright
Debunkers of The Protocols Vladimir Burtsev · Herman Bernstein Norman Cohn · John S. Curtiss Philip Graves · Michael Hagemeister Pierre-André Taguieff · Lucien Wolf
Commentaries on The Protocols The International Jew The Cause of World Unrest The Jewish Bolshevism Mein Kampf

George Shanks (1895 - ) was an expatriate Briton born in Moscow and is most famous as the first translator of Protocols of Zion from Russian into English. His version was produced for The Britons, an early anti-immigration and anti-Semitic organization.

George Shanks was the son of Henry Shanks a well-known British merchant who resided in Moscow. Henry Shanks managed the family firm of Shanks & Bolin, Magasin Anglais established by his father in 1852. As a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the family lost their business and home and were forced to returned London. It is believed that the translation was completed during this period in London. His identity was not discovered until 1978; initially, it was believed that Victor E. Marsden was the translator, as his name came to be associated with the British English language translation of the Protocols in pamphlet or booklet form soon 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.

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.

Main article: Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Works

• The Jewish Peril. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

anonymously translated by George Shanks

(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

(London: The Britons, 62 Oxford Street, 1920; Second edition)

Related names: Nilus, Sergi︠e︡ĭ Aleksandrovich, 1862-1930 [1905 Russian source]

See also

• The Morning Post

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

External links

• Library catalogue entry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem