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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.
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
- 936 pp. (English tr.)
- 1933
- 1933, (1934, 2012 English tr.)
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.
24. Apr. 2015 · In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel turned what might have been a footnote in the history of World War I—the deportation and mass murder of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian minority—into an epic that was corroborated by many German sources and eyewitness accounts.
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh centers on Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who spent 22 years in Paris before returning to his ancestral village with his French wife, Juliette, and his son, Stephen. His home-coming coincides with the first stages of a methodical campaign to wipe out the Ottoman Empire’s Armenian population.
5. Juni 2012 · Goebbels’ response came early in 1934, in the form of a decree banning Musa Dagh from being sold anywhere in Germany. “I have been deleted from the book, and the books, of the living ...
8. März 2018 · In several ghettos where the Nazis held Jewish populations before murdering them, Bialystok and Vilnius among others, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was passed from hand to hand and became the inspiration – almost the manual – for the sacrificial ghetto risings that followed.
