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Apr 26, 2021 · Passed around Jewish ghettos across eastern Europe, author Franz Werfel’s fact-based ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ novel foreshadowed the Holocaust and galvanized resistance. By Matt...
Jewish response to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by the Austrian - Jewish author Franz Werfel. Based on the events at Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the book played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule.
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by the Austrian - Jewish author Franz Werfel. Based on the events at Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the book played a role in organizing the Jewish resistance under Nazi rule.
Apr 24, 2015 · The erosion of civil rights, the singling out of a minority for the nation’s problems, and the state-sanctioned violence perpetrated against it were becoming a reality for German Jews and this made Musa Dagh seem the work of a prophet. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh began
Jews worldwide welcomed The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and readily saw the parallels Werfel (himself Jewish) had drawn between them and the Armenians, especially the resentment and persecution both societies endured in the nineteenth century, when each benefited and suffered from governmental liberalization policies and the economic success that ...
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Sep 10, 2014 · David B. Green. Follow. Sep 10, 2014. September 10, 1890 is the birthdate of Franz Werfel, the Prague-born Jewish poet, dramatist and novelist, whose most acclaimed work, the 1933 “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” about the Armenian genocide, was widely read as a warning about the Nazi rise to power and the murderous threat it posed to the Jews.
01FQ5903_1-83. DAVID WELKY. GLOBAL HOLLYWOOD VERSUS NATIONAL PRIDE. The Battle to Film. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. MOTION PICTURES PLAY a significant role in determin- land. Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister, Erkan ing how people around the world perceive their own Mumcu, agreed that his country could “easily tolerate and other societies.
