Dezső Szomory

The native form of this personal name is Szomory Dezső. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Dezső Szomory
Born	Moshe Weisz (1869-06-02)2 June 1869 Pest, Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 November 1944(1944-11-30) (aged 75) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Genre	Novel, history play
Literary movement	Art Nouveau, naturalism, romanticism
Notable works	Hermelin The Paris Story

Dezső Szomory (born Moshe Weisz;[1] 2 June 1869 – 30 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish writer and dramatist.

Biography

In his history plays and other works, he developed a unique tone and style of Budapest Hungarian;[2] his work has been compared to that of Marcel Proust.[1] He died during the Holocaust while living under Swedish protection in Budapest, suffering "starvation, loneliness, and depression".[3]

References

1. Fenyvesi 2003, p. 23.
2. Sarlos 2002, p. 441.
3. Turán 2013, p. 49.

Bibliography

• Fenyvesi, Charles (2003). When Angels Fooled the World: Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
• Sarlos, Robert K. (2002) [1969]. "Hungary". In Gassner, John; Quinn, Edward (eds.). The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Dover. pp. 437–43.
• Turán, Tamás (2013). "Two Peoples, Seventy Nations: Parallels of National Destiny in Hungarian Intellectual History and Ancient Jewish Thought". In Hatos, Pál; Novák, Attila (eds.). Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries. Budapest: Balassi Institute.