Franz Werfel was one of Austria’s most renowned writers at the end of the s. In the s, however, the humanist, anti-genocide stance he expressed in works such as The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, as well as his Jewish heritage, attracted the censure of the Nazis. His books were among the many that were burned amidst accusations of conspiracy and decadence/5(). Franz Werfel's best-known works include The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (), a classic historical novel that portrays Armenian resistance to the Turks, and The Song of Bernadette (). The latter book had its start when Werfel, a Jew escaping the Nazis, found solace in the pilgrim Czech-born poet, playwright, and novelist, whose central themes were religious faith, heroism, and human brotherhood/5. GC , full-page note about the book by William Saroyan, this is the novelization of the events of wherein the Turkish government ordered the slaughter of Armenians living in Turkey, this book tells the story of a group of Armenians who fought against their slaughter by staging a defense atop Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this first holocaust of the 20th Century killed million of the 3 million Armenians .
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (German: Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in , during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Penguin Modern Classics) by Werfel, Franz at bltadwin.ru - ISBN - ISBN - Penguin Classics - - Softcover. A group of seven villages in Syria decided to rebel and rather than joining the death marches, the inhabitants fled to the nearby mountain of Musa Dagh. There they managed to fend off the Ottoman army and survive until rescue came from the sea. In reality, the siege lasted 56 days, but in this book, it is a 40 day siege.
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel’s masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in , drawing the world’s attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order [ ]. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh Volume 20 of A Verba Mundi book Volume 20 of Verba Mundi Volume. A group of seven villages in Syria decided to rebel and rather than joining the death marches, the inhabitants fled to the nearby mountain of Musa Dagh. There they managed to fend off the Ottoman army and survive until rescue came from the sea. In reality, the siege lasted 56 days, but in this book, it is a 40 day siege.
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