Karl Marx #11- How did Marx View Judaism & Jewish People?
Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#11 How did Marx View Judaism & the Jewish People?
• Essay on the Jewish People
• Wrote about his Jewish descent
• Certain writings are nasty, anti-Jewish
• Lens of 20th/21st centuries – Nazi/Stalin like
• 19th century perspective - viewed Judaism as narrow
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