I love reading Umberto Eco books. Actually, let’s clarify that statement. I love having read Umberto Eco books. The books themselves are, at times, a little difficult to get through. They are extremely dense and lyrical and definitely not books that you can easily skim through and understand what is going on. From the 1860s through the end of the century, Eco’s newest book, The Prague Cemetery, deals with the rise of the antisemitism from Herrmann Goedsche’ Biarritz through the Dreyfus Affair (with a large stop at The Protocols of the Elders of Zion). It’s an amazing story where only the main character (and possibly his grandfather) are fictional. Everyone else is a real person and actually did the actions Eco writes about. So, let’s check out the scourge of Judaism and the Freemasons (and the Catholic Church, depending on who’s paying).

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