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Marx's style was shared by his companions: his wife referred to Lassalle "the little Berlin Jew,"<ref>William Otto Henderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=a9BvGA43rAQC Marx and Engels and the English workers: and other essays]'' (Psychology Press, 1989) ISBN 0714633348, p. 71</ref> while Engels called him a "greasy Jew."<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VIKGCHT1sbwC A history of the Jews]'' (HarperCollins, 1998) ISBN 0060915331, p. 350</ref>

Marx's style was shared by his companions: his wife referred to Lassalle "the little Berlin Jew,"<ref>William Otto Henderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=a9BvGA43rAQC Marx and Engels and the English workers: and other essays]'' (Psychology Press, 1989) ISBN 0714633348, p. 71</ref> while Engels called him a "greasy Jew."<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VIKGCHT1sbwC A history of the Jews]'' (HarperCollins, 1998) ISBN 0060915331, p. 350</ref>

===Marx's anti-Semitism===

===Marx's self-loathing===

"That Karl Marx was an inveterate antisemite is today considered a commonplace which is hardly ever questioned," wrote Shlomo Avineri, professor of political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<ref>Shlomo Avineri, “[http://www.jstor.org/pss/2707911 Marx and Jewish Emancipation],” ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', Vol. 25, No. 3 (July–September, 1964) pp. 445-450</ref> Marx “was at best negative towards Jews in theory,” according to University of London historian David Cesarani;<ref>David Cesarani, ''[http://www.engageonline.org.uk/ressources/left_jews/Left_Jews_final.pdf The Jews and the Left] (Labour Friends of Israel 2004) ISBN 0 9500536-5-1, p. 1 (PDF p. 7)</ref> he was "a particularly caustic antisemite," wrote Edward H. Flannery, a professor at the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University.<ref>Edward H. Flannery, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J40gNC7cxfYC The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-three Centuries of Antisemitism]'' (Paulist Press, 2004) ISBN 0809143240, p. 168</ref> Indeed, Marx's "entire theory of class was rooted in anti-Semitism," charges Johnson.<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575), p. 73</ref> Thus Shlomo Sharan of Tel Aviv University calls Marx an “anti-Semitic Jew,”<ref>Shlomo Sharan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=5U-Dk-5p0mIC Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk]'' (Sussex Academic Press, 2003) ISBN 1903900522 , p. 125</ref> while Albert S. Lindemann, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of California–Santa Barbara, dubs him “a self-hating Jew.”<ref>Albert S. Lindemann , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=NagdhSUgB9oC Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2000) ISBN 0521795389, p. 166</ref> Likewise, Sir Isaiah Berlin diagnosed Marx's condition as "self-hate" and Marx's biographer Werner Blumenberg "self-hatred"; Raphael Patai pronounced Marx the "most influential of Jewish self-haters."<ref>Raphael Patai, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6jNniq7Ji7YC The Jewish mind]'' (Wayne State University Press, 1977) ISBN 081432651X, p. 470</ref>

"That Karl Marx was an inveterate antisemite is today considered a commonplace which is hardly ever questioned," wrote Shlomo Avineri, professor of political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.<ref>Shlomo Avineri, “[http://www.jstor.org/pss/2707911 Marx and Jewish Emancipation],” ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', Vol. 25, No. 3 (July–September, 1964) pp. 445-450</ref> Marx “was at best negative towards Jews in theory,” according to University of London historian David Cesarani;<ref>David Cesarani, ''[http://www.engageonline.org.uk/ressources/left_jews/Left_Jews_final.pdf The Jews and the Left] (Labour Friends of Israel 2004) ISBN 0 9500536-5-1, p. 1 (PDF p. 7)</ref> he was "a particularly caustic antisemite," wrote Edward H. Flannery, a professor at the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University.<ref>Edward H. Flannery, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J40gNC7cxfYC The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-three Centuries of Antisemitism]'' (Paulist Press, 2004) ISBN 0809143240, p. 168</ref> Indeed, Marx's "entire theory of class was rooted in anti-Semitism," charges Johnson.<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575), p. 73</ref> Thus Shlomo Sharan of Tel Aviv University calls Marx an “anti-Semitic Jew,”<ref>Shlomo Sharan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=5U-Dk-5p0mIC Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk]'' (Sussex Academic Press, 2003) ISBN 1903900522 , p. 125</ref> while [http://www.js.emory.edu/faculty/gilman.htm Sander Gilman] of Emory University's Tam Institute for Jewish Studies ranks him among the most influential  “Jewish anti-Semites” of his generation of Germans.<ref>S.L. Gilman (1984), “[http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/3/275.full.pdf+html Karl Marx and the Secret Language of Jews],” ''[http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/ Modern Judaism]'', [http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year/1984 Vol. 4] [http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/3.toc No. 3], p. 275. Reprinted in Charlie Malcolm-Brown and  Russell Wheatley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vz-4LDWCnlAC Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments]'' (Taylor & Francis, 1990) ISBN 0415193273, p. 22</ref> Albert S. Lindemann, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of California–Santa Barbara, dubs Marx “a self-hating Jew”;<ref>Albert S. Lindemann , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=NagdhSUgB9oC Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews]'' (Cambridge University Press, 2000) ISBN 0521795389, p. 166</ref> Sir Isaiah Berlin diagnosed Marx's condition as "self-hate," and Marx's biographer Werner Blumenberg "self-hatred"; Raphael Patai pronounced Marx the "most influential of Jewish self-haters."<ref>Raphael Patai, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6jNniq7Ji7YC The Jewish mind]'' (Wayne State University Press, 1977) ISBN 081432651X, p. 470</ref>

===="On the Jewish Question"====

===="On the Jewish Question"====