The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel

This, along with his governess's influence, gave Werfel an early interest (and expertise) in Catholicism, which soon branched out to other faiths, including Theosophy and Islam, such that his fiction, as well as his nonfiction, provides some insight into comparative religion. Like the children of other progressive German-speaking Jews in Prague, Werfel was educated at a Catholic school run by the Piarists, a teaching order that allowed for a rabbi to instruct Jewish students for their Bar Mitzvahs. As a child, Werfel was raised by his Czech Catholic governess, Barbara Šimůnková, who often took him to mass in Prague's main cathedral. His two sisters were Hanna (born 1896) and Marianne Amalie (born 1899). His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.īorn in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods, Rudolf Werfel.

He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. Urn:oclc:804146642 Republisher_date 20180829172959 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 623 Scandate 20180827043746 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1.Franz Viktor Werfel ( German: ( listen) 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian- Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. Urn:lcp:fortydaysofmusad00werf_0:epub:0d377aa7-db38-4250-a671-c124033e0388 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fortydaysofmusad00werf_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9478dp4t Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780881846683Ġ881846686 Lccn 91217744 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL1656516M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:51:56 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1343507 City New York Donorīurlingamepubliclibrary Edition 2nd Carroll & Graf ed.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel