Max Simon Nordau

Max Simon Nordau
Max Simon Nordau (1849–1923) was a Hungarian-born physician, writer, and social critic, best known for his role in the early Zionist movement and as a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization with Theodor Herzl. He authored several works, including "Degeneration" (1892), where he critiqued what he saw as the moral and cultural decline of European society. A staunch advocate for Jewish self-determination, Nordau was instrumental in promoting Zionist ideas at the First Zionist Congress in 1897. His writings and activism left a lasting influence on both Jewish thought and modernist cultural criticism.

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CHAPTER I. A more unequally matched couple than the cartwright Molnár and his wife can seldom be seen. When, on Sunday, the pair went to church through the main street of Kisfalu, an insignificant village in the Pesth county, every one looked after them, though every child, nay, every cur in the hamlet, knew them and, during the five years since their marriage, might have become accustomed to the... more...

CHAPTER I. "Come, you fellows, that's enough joking. This defection of yours, melancholy Eynhardt, combines obstinacy with wisdom, like Balaam's ass! Well! may you rest in peace. And now let us be off." The glasses, filled with clear Affenthaler, rang merrily together, the smiling landlord took up his money, and the company rose noisily from the wooden bench, overturning it with a... more...