Isaac Markens (October 9, 1846 – August 1928)^[1] was a Jewish American writer.

Markens was born in New York City, the son ofElias Markens, a linguist andOrientalist. Isaac Markens was educated in the public schools of his native city. He became a merchant, and afterward private secretary to Railway CommissionerAlbert Fink.

Subsequently he entered the journalistic field, and wrote for the New YorkCommercial Advertiser and theMail and Express. In 1888 he publishedThe 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, aged 82, in 1928.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906)."Markens, Isaac".The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

• Historian Isaac Markens Correspondence with Fellow Historian, Ida TarbellArchived January 13, 2015, at theWayback Machine Shapell Manuscript Foundation

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