Recently I’ve seen some anti-Semitic propaganda which states that a 1905 issue of the National Geographic which covered the abortive 1905 socialist revolution claimed that “the Jews” were behind the plotting. Is this true, or just another case of idiotic misinfo from bigots? Thanks in advance.
This came from a religious site, but it looks pretty specific about where it occured.
I’m not sure that the quote, if correct, is exactly the most damning I’ve ever heard. Obviously we need to know the whole quote and the context.
Back to Google.
The site http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR.html (scroll about halfway down) has more info. It says it was originally a speech from Dec. 1906, whick then was in the May, 1907 issue.
There is more than just a snippet of the speech.
Here is more of article, from my copy of the DVD-ROMs of 110 years of Nat. Geo:
Excerpt from “The Revolution In Russia” by William Eleroy Curtis (originally as an address to National Geographic Society Dev 14, 1906)
May 1907
I may put some pages up somewhere if anyone is interested. I suppose putting the whole article up would be a copyright violation, though.
Wow, this revaltion is just outright disturbing…I always figured National Geographic to be without bias…I guess I’m wrong.
No support for what I am about to say.
I don’t think that the sentiments expressed in the lecture/article were unusual for the time period.
If you read my link, you see the author starting out by saying
He at least told you that Jews were second class citizens, and had little or no rights.
It doesn’t seem surprisiing that revolutionaries would spring forth from such a group.
Yes, Daoloth, that’s why they only printed pictures of topless African women, but no pictures of topless white women–because they were completely without bias. 
(It’s just a private club, ya know. The NGS, I mean.)
Probably not. I am not an intellectual property lawyer, and Congress is forever mucking about with the applicable periods, but I think it’s currently 75 years. The article at issue is now 95 years old, which should put it in the public domain.
But I’m probably wrong. 
Hey, whaddaya know, I’m wrong. It’s now 95 years (for pre-1978 works). Oh well, 95 years ago was a couple months after this article was published in NG, which was in turn six months after it was first delivered as a speech. Either way, it looks like you’re off the hook, copyright-wise.
Still, I’d ask a mod before posting it here.
Certainly not if you were to consider the pogroms at the turn of the century. Tsarist Russia was not exactly a bed of roses.