Marcus Eli Ravage

Background

Ravage, Marcus Eli was born on June 25, 1884 in Berlad, Rumania. Son of Judah Loeb and Bella (Rosenthal) Revici.

Education

Came to the United States, 1900. Bachelor of Arts, University of Missouri, 1909. Master of Arts, University of Illinois, 1910.

Studied Columbia, 1910-1911, 1912-1913.

Career

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.

Achievements

• Marcus Eli Ravage has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Jeanne Louise Martin, of Paris, France, December 2, 1915. Children: Suzanne Anna, Louise Belle, John Mark.

Father:

Judah Loeb Revici

Mother:

Bella (Rosenthal) Revici

child:

John Mark Ravage

child:

Louise Belle Ravage

child:

Suzanne Anna Ravage

1st Spouse, mother of his 3 children:

Jeanne Louise Martin

2nd spouse:

Denise Montel Ravage