Language:
German
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Das Jüdische Echo
Angaben zur Quelle:
39 (1990) 159-164
Keywords:
Zweig, Max,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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German literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Zweig was born in Moravia in 1892, moved to Berlin in 1918, and in 1938 immigrated to Palestine. In 1937 he wrote his drama "Die Marranen", which glorifies the Conversos' loyalty to Judaism and their acceptance of martyrdom, highlighting similarities of their situation to that of the Jews in Nazi Germany. In 1947 he wrote the drama "Ghetto Warschau" (on the ghetto uprising), celebrating the fighting Jew. In both dramas the hero is an assimilated Jew who discovers his Jewishness through experiencing persecution.
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