Search results
Harper's Monthly. Publication date. 1899. Media type. Print. Pages. 9. " Concerning the Jews " is an 1899 short essay by Mark Twain. Twain had lived in Austria during 1896, and opined that the Habsburg empire used Jews as scapegoats to maintain unity in their immensely diverse empire.
Concerning The Jews. by. Mark Twain. Publication date. 1934. Publisher. Harper & Brothers. Collection. universallibrary.
by Mark Twain. →. Concerning The Jews, Harper's Magazine, September, 1899. For another version see In defense of Harriet Shelley, and other essays/Concerning the Jews. Contents. 1 Point No. 1. 2 Point No. 2. 3 Point No. 4. 4 Point No. 3. 5 Point No. 5. 6 Point No. 6. 7 Postscript: The Jew As Soldier. 8 Notes.
ahead, and were to include the writing of a brilliant essay, "Concerning the Jews," in which he attempted to explain the phenomenon of antisemitism as he en- countered it in 1898- from a philosemitic position. Between 1870 and his death in 1910, Clemens devel-. oped into a major American writer of great power and.
Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”. - 1867 (Quoted in Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. London: 1881) Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
Twain described "Concerning the Jews" as "my gem of the ocean," but predicted "neither Jew nor Christian will approve it." In the case of America’s Jewish leadership, he proved correct. Jewish critics acknowledged Twain’s respect for Jews but bemoaned his errors of fact.
Concerning the Jews" is a short essay by Mark Twain. Twain had lived in Austria during 1896, and opined that the Habsburg empire used scapegoats to maintain unity in their immensely diverse...
