 In 1843, Bauer wrote "The Jewish Question", which was responded to in a pamphlet written by Karl Marx, entitled, "On the Jewish Question".According to Marx, Bauer argued that the Jews were responsible for their own misfortunes in European society since they had "made their nest in the pores and interstices of bourgeois society".Jacob Katz contextualizes Bauer's antisemitism with his passionate anti-Christianity, the latter of which caused Bauer to lose his professorship.