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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel
I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.
The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.
Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.
I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.
Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...
#Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression
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Trump built walls out of tariffs on ‘Liberation Day’. Has the US been boxed in?
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, it confronts a new world order dominated…
#Economy #AlexanderHamilton #Americanfirms #Beijing #Canada #China #civilwar #congress #DartmouthCollege #DonaldTrump #EconomistIntelligenceUnit #EuropeanUnion #FederalReserveBankofNewYork #GreatDepression #HerbertHoover #HinrichFoundation
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Trump built walls out of tariffs on ‘Liberation Day’. Has the US been boxed in? https://www.byteseu.com/2184413/ #AlexanderHamilton #AmericanFirms #Beijing #Canada #China #CivilWar #Congress #DartmouthCollege #DonaldTrump #EconomistIntelligenceUnit #economy #EuropeanUnion #FederalReserveBankOfNewYork #GreatDepression #HerbertHoover #HinrichFoundation
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In 100 years, what will people remember of our time?
Think back, what stands out
#WWI. #GreatDepression. Of course there's other stories. These stand out
In 100 years, people will not immediately think #COVID. Or #Trump
They will think #Ukraine
Recognize the most stirring story of our time
Ukraine faced down formidable mass murdering ethnofascist madness
And won
"It’s the new reality. There is no major #oilRefinery left in #Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine"
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In 100 years, what will people remember of our time?
Think back, what stands out
#WWI. #GreatDepression. Of course there's other stories. These stand out
In 100 years, people will not immediately think #COVID. Or #Trump
They will think #Ukraine
Recognize the most stirring story of our time
Ukraine faced down formidable mass murdering ethnofascist madness
And won
"It’s the new reality. There is no major #oilRefinery left in #Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine"
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In 100 years, what will people remember of our time?
Think back, what stands out
#WWI. #GreatDepression. Of course there's other stories. These stand out
In 100 years, people will not immediately think #COVID. Or #Trump
They will think #Ukraine
Recognize the most stirring story of our time
Ukraine faced down formidable mass murdering ethnofascist madness
And won
"It’s the new reality. There is no major #oilRefinery left in #Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine"
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In 100 years, what will people remember of our time?
Think back, what stands out
#WWI. #GreatDepression. Of course there's other stories. These stand out
In 100 years, people will not immediately think #COVID. Or #Trump
They will think #Ukraine
Recognize the most stirring story of our time
Ukraine faced down formidable mass murdering ethnofascist madness
And won
"It’s the new reality. There is no major #oilRefinery left in #Russia that has not been struck by Ukraine"
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People share the frugal habits they learned from relatives who lived through the Great Depression
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People share the frugal habits they learned from relatives who lived through the Great Depression
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People share the frugal habits they learned from relatives who lived through the Great Depression
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This made me stop playing Good Feeling by Flo Rida. When @[email protected] says something about money, you better listen. At the highest level this would align conceptually with when I first declared that we were going to plummet from ~30T to ~20T #GDP. If that, then #GreatDepression was easy.
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Backfiring propaganda
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2174683/backfiring-propaganda
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Backfiring propaganda
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2174680/backfiring-propaganda
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The New #Face of #America: Inside the #Second #GreatDepression #Documentary #yt #VanLife
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/545589/ What is the bliss trade and has it elimated the risk of a share market crash? #BigLastingStateSupport #Business #Economy #Éire #gfc #GitaGopinath #GlobalDebt #GlobalGDP #GreatDepression #IE #IMF #Ireland #SpaceX #SpacexPublicListing #WallStreetRecordHighs #WhatDoesBlissStandForInBusiness #WhatIsBlissTrade
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What is the bliss trade and has it elimated the risk of a share market crash?
Wall Street is having one heck of a run this year and Australians are benefiting via their superannuation.…
#Economy #biglastingstatesupport #business #GFC #GitaGopinath #GlobalDebt #globalGDP #GreatDepression #IMF #SpaceX #spacexpubliclisting #wallstreetrecordhighs #whatdoesblissstandforinbusiness #whatisblisstrade
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What is the bliss trade and has it elimated the risk of a share market crash?
Wall Street is having one heck of a run this year and Australians are benefiting via their superannuation.…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #biglastingstatesupport #Business #GFC #GitaGopinath #GlobalDebt #globalgdp #greatdepression #IMF #SpaceX #spacexpubliclisting #UK #UnitedKingdom #wallstreetrecordhighs #whatdoesblissstandforinbusiness #whatisblisstrade
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What is the bliss trade and has it elimated the risk of a share market crash?
Wall Street is having one heck of a run this year and Australians are benefiting via their superannuation.…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #biglastingstatesupport #Business #CA #Canada #gfc #GitaGopinath #Globaldebt #globalgdp #greatdepression #imf #SpaceX #spacexpubliclisting #wallstreetrecordhighs #whatdoesblissstandforinbusiness #whatisblisstrade
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1038226/ What is the bliss trade and has it elimated the risk of a share market crash? #BigLastingStateSupport #Business #Economy #GFC #GitaGopinath #GlobalDebt #GlobalGdp #GreatDepression #IMF #SpaceX #SpacexPublicListing #UK #UnitedKingdom #WallStreetRecordHighs #WhatDoesBlissStandForInBusiness #WhatIsBlissTrade
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Bessie Smith, a bisexual singer known as "Empress of the Blues", USA, 1936
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Bessie Smith, a bisexual singer known as "Empress of the Blues", USA, 1936
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Openly queer jazz singer Gladys Bentley (left) and jazz band leader Willie Bryant (right), USA, 1936
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Openly queer jazz singer Gladys Bentley (left) and jazz band leader Willie Bryant (right), USA, 1936
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Openly queer jazz singer Gladys Bentley (left) and jazz band leader Willie Bryant (right), USA, 1936
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Openly queer jazz singer Gladys Bentley (left) and jazz band leader Willie Bryant (right), USA, 1936
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#History #American #Horses #Mano’War #GreatDepression #Symbol #Democracy #Hope #Video #alt
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
MAN O’WAR -NARRATED BY GOVERNOR ANY BESHEAR
A GREAT DEPRESSION SYMBOL OF HOPE -
#History #American #Horses #Mano’War #GreatDepression #Symbol #Democracy #Hope #Video #alt
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
MAN O’WAR -NARRATED BY GOVERNOR ANY BESHEAR
A GREAT DEPRESSION SYMBOL OF HOPE -
#History #American #Horses #Mano’War #GreatDepression #Symbol #Democracy #Hope #Video #alt
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
MAN O’WAR -NARRATED BY GOVERNOR ANY BESHEAR
A GREAT DEPRESSION SYMBOL OF HOPE -
#History #American #Horses #Mano’War #GreatDepression #Symbol #Democracy #Hope #Video #alt
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
MAN O’WAR -NARRATED BY GOVERNOR ANY BESHEAR
A GREAT DEPRESSION SYMBOL OF HOPE -
#History #American #Horses #Mano’War #GreatDepression #Symbol #Democracy #Hope #Video #alt
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
MAN O’WAR -NARRATED BY GOVERNOR ANY BESHEAR
A GREAT DEPRESSION SYMBOL OF HOPE
