Joseph Bau was a Holocaust survivor who used his artistic skills as a forger to save hundreds of lives during World War II.

In "The Professor and the Con Man" by Ariel Sabar, the author unravels the story behind the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, a controversial fragment of papyrus that caused a sensation in 2012.

In Umberto Eco's novel "The Prague Cemetery," the character Peter Rachkovsky explains the origins and implications of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated text purporting a Jewish conspiracy for world domination.