Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (2005) 188-200
Keywords:
Hatvany, Lajos.
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Jewish literature History and criticism
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Hungarian literature Jewish authors 20th century
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History and criticism
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Jews in literature
Abstract:
Hatvany (1880-1961, born as Ludwig Deutsch) was a Hungarian Jewish novelist, poet and playwright. His major novel, "Urak és emberek" (1927), is so closely modeled after Thomas Mann’s "Buddenbrooks" that it was mockingly called "Judenbrooks". It is a bildungsroman as well as a social–historical analysis of the emancipation and assimilation of Jews and their role in the economic development of 19th-century Hungary. Hatvany’s relationship to his Jewish and Hungarian identities was painful and controversial. Although he shocked Jewish public opinion in 1917 by promoting conversion to Christianity and mixed marriage (he also converted), he altered his stance as the 20th century, dominated by racial antisemitism, progressed. In "Urak és emberek" he discusses the failure of Jews to become fully accepted as Hungarians. Before World War II, Hatvany emigrated to Paris, and in 1938 to England, and returned to Hungary in 1947.
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