The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
by Franz Werfel

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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Author: Franz Werfel
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-12
ISBN: 0881846686
Number of pages: 824
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers

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Book Review: Werfel made himself a voice to the world for the Armenians!
Summary: 5 Stars

Between 1915 and 1917 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the 20th century's first genocide, and to this day the existing Turkish government still denies any wrong doing!
It is Franz Werfel's merit that he made the world listen to the crying of the Armenian people, which would have been almost forgotten otherwise.
He tells the story of a handful of men being deported to the Syrian desert who - by courage of despair - manage to escape to the mountain Musa Dagh (which means "mountain of Moses") and resisting the flabberghasted superior Turkish soldiers for forty days, until they were discovered and rescued by french war-ships.
When the book was published in 1933 in Germany, Werfel also intended to draw attention to the imminent same fate that the Jews were facing in Germany, but it was in vain. Both, the Nazis and the Turks were outraged, and the book was banned in both countries (in post-war Germany it was published again, of course), but through the English translation it fortunately had become a bestseller already. However: When MGM was planning to make this book a movie, they had to yield to Turkish pressure not doing so! So to this very day there has not been any movie made from this excellent book.

Summary of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradian?born an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a Frenchwoman, and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman army?will strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5,000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh, ?the mountain of Moses.? There, for forty days, in the face of almost certain death, they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating, and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II, this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment, in fiction or nonfiction, of the first genocide in the twentieth century?s long series of inhumanities. It also continues to be today what the New York Times deemed it in 1933??a true and thrilling novel ... a story which must rouse the emotions of all human beings.? ?Musa Dagh gives us a lasting sense of participation in a stirring episode of history.... Magnificent.??The New York Times Book Review ?A novel full of the breath, the flesh and blood and bone and spirit of life.??Saturday Review

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