The Report of the Jews' Death 'Has Been Grossly Exaggerated'
by Lawrence Kadish • June 26, 2022 at 2:00 am
Mark Twain, circa 1895. (Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin misquoted Mark Twain about the Russian president's cancer: "The rumors about my death were greatly exaggerated," Putin was quoted as saying about his cancer by Fortune and The Guardian. Mark Twain had actually said about an illness: "The report of my death has been grossly exaggerated." The same assessment by Mark Twain also applies to the Jews and the great American author's view of them, as in his remarkable article, "Concerning the Jews," published by Harper's Magazine in March, 1898:
