Marcus Eli Ravage

Who is this?

Marcus "Max" Eli Ravage (or Ravitch, born Revici; June 25, 1884 – October 6, 1965) was a Romanian-born Jewish American writer and journalist who divided his life between the United States and France. He is best known for An American in the Making (1917), a seminal immigrant autobiography exploring the tensions between assimilation and cultural identity. During the interwar period, Ravage wrote prolifically on immigration in the United States and on political affairs across Europe and America. His satirical essays about antisemitism, published 1928, were later stripped of context and ideologically repurposed by Nazi propaganda – a conspiracist distortion further recycled in postwar antisemitic discourse. Ravage also authored popular biographies of the Rothschild family and of Marie Louise, Napoleon's second wife. He served as European correspondent for the U.S. magazine The Nation, and contributed to Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, Current History, The Forward (in his early years under the penname 'Max the Sleever'), the humor magazine Puck, The Century Magazine, the British newspaper The Nation and various European publications. In Ravage's French publications – documented, for example, in articles for Le Petit Parisien, Vendredi, Ce soir and Vu – his name was rendered as Mark‑Eli Ravage, or Marc‑Elie Ravage, sometimes with accent on the "É".

Career

1. 1884
   Born
2. 1965
   Passed away

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Bârlad
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: writer, magazine writer, journalist, essayist
• •Spouse: Denise Ravage