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Max Nordau
Max S. Nordau | |
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 Nordau, c. 1906 | |
| Born | Simon Maximilian (Simcha) Südfeld 29 July 1849 |
| Died | 23 January 1923 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, author, social critic |
| Known for | Co-founder of World Zionist Organization |
| Notable work | Degeneration |
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Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.[1] He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice-president of several Zionist congresses.
In his younger years he was known as a social critic, writing The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896). By 1913, Nordau was established as the earliest major critic of modernism.[2] Although not his most popular or successful work while alive, Degeneration is the book most often remembered and cited today.
- ^ Hart, Mitchell Bryan (May 9, 2000). Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804738248 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hans-Peter Söder (1991). "Disease and Health as Contexts of Modernity: Max Nordau as a Critic of Fin-de-Siècle Modernism". German Studies Review. 14 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 473. doi:10.2307/1430965.
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