Hippolytus Lutostansky

Hippolytus Lutostansky (1835–1915), also transliterated as Lutostanski, Liutostanskii, J. J. Ljutostanski, Ippolit Iosifovich Li︠u︡tostanskiĭ; Polish: Hipolit Lutostański, was a former Roman Catholic priest of Polish extraction in the Russian Empire, convert to the Russian Orthodox Church and an antisemite.

He studied and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Russia. He was defrocked for alleged offenses including theft and embezzlement, which were later not proven. Thereafter he converted to Russian Orthodoxy and joined a religious academy as a student.

He was famous for writing The Talmud and the Jews (Талмуд и евреи), for which he was awarded by the tzar and his officials.

His books and his public statements claimed blood libel.

He maintained that Jews wanted to divide Russia among themselves, once they left the Pale of Settlement, furthering the claims laid in the antisemitic works of Osman Bey (pen name of Frederick Millingen) The Conquest of the World by the Jews, and contributing to the creation of the . In 1904 he directly quoted Pavel Krushevan's version; without revision, but with useful chronological evidence in an updated edition of his The Talmud and the Jews book. (See main article Cesare G. De Michelis about the versions.)

He declared himself to be a Zionist and proposed that "Russia should make any sacrifice to help the Jews settle in Palestine and form an autonomous state of their own".

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