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Armenian genocide novel inspired Yishuv and ghetto fighters

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Published: 24 April 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

From Musa Dagh to Masada – Stefan Ihrig – Tablet Magazine 18.04.16
How Franz Werfel’s 1933 novel about the Armenian Genocide inspired ghetto fighters and the Zionist resistance. Werfel said the Armenians were his ‘stand-in Jews’ and intended his novel as a warning of what Nazi Germany could do to the Jews.
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