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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. He was a co-founder...
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    (German: Entartung, 1892–1893) is a two-volume work of social criticism by Max Nordau. Within this work he attacks what he believed to be degenerate art and...
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  • Nordau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Max Nordau (1849–1923), Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic Maxa Nordau...
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    Muscular Judaism (German: Muskeljudentum) is a term coined by Max Nordau in his speech at the Second Zionist Congress held in Basel on August 28, 1898...
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    coming from Russia. Herzl was elected President of the Congress, with Max Nordau, Abraham Salz and Samuel Pineles elected first, second and third Vice...
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    The Dr. Max Nordau Synagogue, also called the Hebrew Community Dor Jadash (Hebrew: דור חדש, romanized: Dor Hadash, lit. 'New Generation'), is a Conservative...
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  • degeneracy Dégénération, a single by Mylène Farmer Degeneration (Nordau), an 1892 book by Max Nordau Resident Evil: Degeneration, a 2008 film "Degenerate", a...
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  • and in criminology with Cesare Lombroso. By the 1890s, in the work of Max Nordau and others, degeneration became a more general concept in social criticism...
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    Maxa Nordau (Hebrew: נורדאו, מקסה, 10 January 1897 – 17 September 1993) was a French painter. She was from a Jewish family and was the daughter of Max Nordau...
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    separation from "authentic Torah Judaism." Theodor Herzl: (1897–1904) Max Nordau (de facto) (1904–1905) David Wolffsohn: (1905–1911) Otto Warburg: (1911–1921)...
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  • label the urge and need to write excessively, professionally or not. Max Nordau, in his attack of what he saw as degenerate art, frequently used the term...
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    generation, resulting in imbecility and senility due to hereditary influence. Max Nordau's Degeneration held that the two dominant traits of those degenerated in...
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  • Max Nordau Julius (9 March 1916 – 27 February 1963) was an Australian barrister and communist. Born in South Brisbane to Hungarian tailor Julius Isack...
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    century when the critic and author Max Nordau devised the theory presented in his 1892 book Degeneration. Nordau drew upon the writings of the criminologist...
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  • ] can be conceptualized as addictions." According to German physician Max Nordau, French psychiatrist Valentin Magnan coined the term oniomania in the...
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  • was brought into polemical prominence at the end of the 19th century by Max Nordau, one of the first critics who perceived the centrality of the concept...
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    daughters Maxa and Anna Nordau. In that book, the Abravanel coat of arms is displayed ("Max Nordau, a Biography" by Maxa and Anna Nordau. New York 1943, translated...
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    Britain, Austria and elsewhere. "Under no circumstances," he wrote to Max Nordau, "are the Armenians to learn that we want to use them in order to erect...
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    impossibility of a true American decadence. German doctor and social critic Max Nordau wrote a lengthy book titled Degeneration (1892). It was an examination...
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    Israel's neighboring enemies. Political Zionism was led by Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau. This Zionist Organization approach espoused at the First Zionist Congress...
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    that we should ask anxiously on all sides: 'What is to come next?" Max Simon Nordau (1892) The idea of progress was at once a social, political and scientific...
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    New York Times, March 20, 1910. Retrieved in PDF format 8 March 2008. Max Nordau 'The Grisette' (1890) in On Bohemia: The Code of the Self-Exiled (César...
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  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Bénédict Morel Edvard Munch Friedrich Nietzsche Max Nordau Georges Sorel Oscar Wilde Otto Weininger Lasting influence Camile Paglia...
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    Max Nordau (heading the committee), Nathan Birnbaum, Alexander Mintz, Siegmund Rosenberg, Saul Rafael Landau, together with Hermann Schapira and Max Bodenheimer...
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  • Russian Empire (Belarus) Religious Zionist, a founder of the Hovevei Zion Max Nordau (1849–1923), born in the Austrian Empire (Hungary), involved in the foundation...
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    the Arabs' residential rights in Palestine". Theodor Herzl's companion Max Nordau, a political Zionist, declared that Palestine was the "legal and historical...
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    "Productive Decadence: "The Queer Comradeship of Outlawed Thought": Vernon Lee, Max Nordau, and Oscar Wilde". New Literary History. 35 (4): 529–546. doi:10.1353/nlh...
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    danger towards society to be motivated by influential thinkers such as Max Nordau.: 6  From 1908 to 1909, Munch produced a lithograph also titled Self-Portrait...
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    people and this land." After Herzl’s opening speech, Vice-Chairperson Max Nordau gave his own speech and the schedule for the remaining three days was...
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    a 65-page long pitch in 1895. He fared best with Israel Zangwill, and Max Nordau. They were both well-known writers or 'men of letters'—imagination that...
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