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Max Nordau

Max Nordau (1849-1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.

He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization[?] together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses.

He was also a social critic who wrote a number of controversial books, including The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896). Ironically, of these books, the one most frequently remembered is Degeneration; it was a Philistine and moralistic attack on so-called degenerate art, and its arguments were adopted by the Nazi Party in Germany.

Nordau died in Paris, France in 1923. In 1926 his remains were moved to Tel Aviv.

External link

Max Nordau page at the World Zionist Organization: http://www.wzo.org.il/home/movement/nordau.htm



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