Der Taxil-Schwindel
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (4 pages)
Creator(s)
- Wiener Library (custody)
- Ben-Itto, Hadassa (collector)
Scope and Content
The file contains a report on the Taxil-Schwindel (Taxil hoax). At the beginning of the report, general information about Taxil is presented. His real name is Garbiel Jogand Page, educated in a reformatory and then joined the Freemasons. There, however, he only gained the degree of apprentice and was soon ruled out again. He first became known as a passionate critic of clericalism. The first book produced by Taxil after his conversion was a four-volume history of Freemasonry, which contained fictitious eyewitness verifications of their participation in Satanism. That's why the French anti-Semite leader Ed. Drumond took Taxil's statements for his own book and used them against Jews.
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Electronic access only
Electronic text and image data Jerusalem Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 20.03.2019
People
- Taxil, Léo, 1854-1907
Subjects
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda--Germany--History--20th century.
- Freemasonry--Rituals.
- Freemasonry--Religious aspects.
- Antisemitism--Europe--History--19th century.
- Freemasonry--Germany--History--19th century.