Concerning the Jews by Mark Twain (1899)

Published in Harper’s Magazine , September Mark Twain wrote this note after visiting Austria in 1896, where he witnessed antisemitism firsthand. Unbeknownst to him, an Austrian called Adolf Hitler was growing up in the small Austrian town of Lambach . “If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze…