Dezső Szomory

Dezső Szomory
Born Moshe Weisz
(1869-06-02)2 June 1869
Pest, Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died 30 November 1944(1944-11-30) (aged 75)
Budapest, Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Genre Novel, history play
Literary movement Art Nouveau, naturalism, romanticism
Notable works Hermelin
The Paris Story

Dezső Szomory (born Moshe Weisz;[1] 2 June 1869 – 30 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish writer and dramatist. In his history plays and other works, he developed a unique tone and style of Budapest Hungarian;[2] his work has been compared to that of Marcel Proust.[1] He died during the Holocaust while living under Swedish protection in Budapest, suffering "starvation, loneliness, and depression".[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Fenyvesi 2003, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Sarlos 1969, p. 441.
  3. ↑ Turán 2013, p. 49.

Bibliography

  • Fenyvesi, Charles (2003). When Angels Fooled the World: Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Sarlos, Robert K. (2002). "Hungary". In Gassner, John; Quinn, Edward. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Dover. pp. 437–43.
  • Turán, Tamás (2013). "Two Peoples, Seventy Nations: Parallels of National Destiny in Hungarian Intellectual History and Ancient Jewish Thought". In Hatos, Pál; Novák, Attila. Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries. Budapest: Balassi Institute.


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