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Czechborn playwright, novelist and poet franz werfel 18901945 became internationally famousand a special target of the nazis after he wrote the forty days of musa dagh, the first novel about the armenian genocide. Visitors of subtitlesbank have given a rating of 3. Franz werfel born 1890 was already a successful writer when in 1933 he published the forty days of musa dagh, inspired by the desperate plight of armenian children he had seen working in a syrian carpet factory. A bestseller and werfels masterpiece, the book brought the armenian genocide to the worlds attention for the first time but was. Musa dagh is a mountain in the hatay province of turkey. The ghetto uprisings during world war ii were a series of armed revolts against the regime of nazi germany between 1941 and 1943 in the newly established jewish ghettos across nazioccupied europe. The forty days of musa dagh penguin modern classics. The forty days of musa dagh verba mundi paperback werfel, franz, dunlop. Franz werfel 18901945 was a germanspeaking jew born in prague, and he and the readers of his meticulously researched novel realized.
A group of seven villages in syria decided to rebel and rather than joining the death marches, the inhabitants fled to the nearby mountain of musa dagh. Show more in 1933 franz werfels epic novel the forty days of. He had worked a miracle for armenians around the world, taking what might have been a footnote in the history of world war ithe deportation and mass murder of the ottoman empire. Jan 04, 2018 franz werfel born 1890 was already a successful writer when in 1933 he published the forty days of musa dagh, inspired by the desperate plight of armenian children he had seen working in a syrian carpet factory. Musa dagh traces the trials and tribulations of franz werfels the forty days of musa dagh in hollywood.
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Jews in the polish ghettos invoked the forty days of musa dagh as an inspiration for the rebellions they staged against the germans. A remarkably similar story was told a little over eighty years ago by german speaking jewish novelist franz werfel, in his blockbuster novel the forty days of musa dagh. Werfel, who died in californian exile in 1945, is now in the almost forgotten league himself, in spite of being one of the most celebrated and successful writers in german speaking europe between the wars. Perhaps most hauntingly, a novel about armenian selfdefense franz werfels the forty days of musa dagh was secretly passed from handtohand among jews imprisoned in ghettos during the holocaust, who saw in it an inspirational analogy to their plight and a call to resistance. Mar 08, 2018 he transformed it into the forty days of musa dagh, the enormous, grandmanner novel which many considered his finest work.
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