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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.
26. Apr. 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
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.
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 ...
- Franz Werfel
- 1933
24. Apr. 2015 · In his 1934 bestseller, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel took what might have been a footnote to World War I—the deportation and mass murder of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian minority—and wrote an epic that anticipated the ominous events unfolding in Germany.
8. März 2018 · Neal Ascherson. 4077 words. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. by Franz Werfel, translated by Geoffrey Dunlop, revised by James Reidel. Penguin, 912 pp., £10.99, January 2018, 978 0 241 33286 3. In a corner of the eastern Mediterranean, where the coast of Anatolia turns south towards Syria, a mountain massif rises by the sea.
10. Sept. 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.
