Marcus Eli Ravage - Biography

Marcus Eli Ravage (Max Ravitch) (June 25, 1884 Berlad, Romania – October 6, 1965 Grasse, France) was a Romanian-born Jewish American writer and journalist.

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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.

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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 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" and various European publications.

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