Isaac Markens
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Isaac Markens, was a Jewish American writer
; born in New York City
October 9, 1846; son of Elias Markens, a linguist and Orientalist
. Isaac Markens was educated in the public schools of his native city. He became a merchant, and afterward private secretary to Railway Commissioner Albert Fink
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Subsequently he entered the journalistic field, and wrote for the New York Commercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. In 1888 he published The Hebrews in America, a series of historical and biographical sketches of value as being the first of their kind on American Jewish history.
Markens was for several years secretary to the board of arbitration of the Joint Executive Committee of Eastern and Western Railways. He died in 1928.
Writer
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; born in New York City
New York City
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October 9, 1846; son of Elias Markens, a linguist and Orientalist
Oriental studies
Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies...
. Isaac Markens was educated in the public schools of his native city. He became a merchant, and afterward private secretary to Railway Commissioner Albert Fink
Albert Fink
Albert Fink was a German civil engineer. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, and devising the Fink truss....
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Subsequently he entered the journalistic field, and wrote for the New York Commercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. In 1888 he published The Hebrews in America, a series of historical and biographical sketches of value as being the first of their kind on American Jewish history.
Markens was for several years secretary to the board of arbitration of the Joint Executive Committee of Eastern and Western Railways. He died in 1928.