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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 (1899) 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.
Concerning The Jews. by. Mark Twain. Publication date. 1934. Publisher. Harper & Brothers. Collection. universallibrary.
After the Civil War, he served as America’s conscience on ethnic and racial issues. Twain defended Jews, African-Americans and Indians against prejudice. While a majority of his contemporaries negatively stereotyped the Jewish people, Twain defended Jewry in word and deed.
This must suffice here as factual background for the charm - linking him, in the tradition of satire, with such writing, during July 1898, of "Concerning the Jews," an masters as Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire - and in his essay of which Mark Twain was inordinately proud.
Twain wrote essays about the status of Jews in America, and stood up to anti-semitism (and defended other marginalized Americans) though his defenses of Jews often included stereotypes. Learn more about Twain’s admiration of the Jewish people and his contentious writings with Matt Seybold, Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark ...
When it comes to "Concerning the Jews," I will not unseat that view here. What I will do, however, is attempt to place some of Twain's relatively neglected writings on anti-Semitism in a larger context.
