Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background. That background was known to all his friends, and Marx gave no sign of wishing to deny it. But even his daughter Eleanor, who studied ...

Karl Marx (1818-83) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary whose ideas are regarded as the foundation of modern ...

While never a believer in Judaism, and at times vicious about the faith, the revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx came from an indisputably Jewish background: Both of his parents’ fathers were ...