Max Nordau: Difference between revisions
spelling |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
Max Nordau was born in Hungary. From his rabbi, he learned Hebrew and Ladino from his father and received the Hanoch Masari, and studied medicine at the University of Budapest. At the age of eighteen, Nordau began publishing articles in newspapers, mainly in German, and later became a prolific writer and author of novels, plays, criticism books, biographies, and children’s fairy tales. His books that criticize society and its institutions, including “[https://ia804505.us.archive.org/21/items/conventionallies840nord/conventionallies840nord.pdf Conventional Lies of our Civilization],” “[https://archive.org/details/cu31924026313118/page/n1/mode/2up The Malady of the Century],” and “[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Paradoxes/gipcAAAAMAAJ?hl=en Paradoxes],” were very successful. | '''Max Nordau''' was born in Hungary. From his rabbi, he learned Hebrew and Ladino from his father and received the Hanoch Masari, and studied medicine at the University of Budapest. At the age of eighteen, Nordau began publishing articles in newspapers, mainly in German, and later became a prolific writer and author of novels, plays, criticism books, biographies, and children’s fairy tales. His books that criticize society and its institutions, including “[https://ia804505.us.archive.org/21/items/conventionallies840nord/conventionallies840nord.pdf Conventional Lies of our Civilization],” “[https://archive.org/details/cu31924026313118/page/n1/mode/2up The Malady of the Century],” and “[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Paradoxes/gipcAAAAMAAJ?hl=en Paradoxes],” were very successful. | ||
== Nordau and Zionism == | == Nordau and Zionism == | ||