The chapter traces the profile of Osman Bey (aka Frederick Millingen, 1836-1905?) an Englishmen who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism to Islam, and finally to Christian Orthodoxy. He fought in the Ottoman and Russian Army and became a self-taught social scientist and journalist. He was the author, inter-alia, of a pamphlet on the supposed historical and contemporary role of Jews in world and economic affairs. This pamphlet, "The Conquest of the World by Jews" (1873) was one of the sources of the infamous forgery the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1903).

Osman Bey's "The Conquest of the World by Jews" (1873): a Liberal Antisemitism?

Levis Sullam, Simon
2020-01-01

Abstract

The chapter traces the profile of Osman Bey (aka Frederick Millingen, 1836-1905?) an Englishmen who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism to Islam, and finally to Christian Orthodoxy. He fought in the Ottoman and Russian Army and became a self-taught social scientist and journalist. He was the author, inter-alia, of a pamphlet on the supposed historical and contemporary role of Jews in world and economic affairs. This pamphlet, "The Conquest of the World by Jews" (1873) was one of the sources of the infamous forgery the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (1903).
2020
Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History
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