Max Nordau
A commemorative postage stamp on Max Simon Nordau, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization [part of the series ‘Historical Personalities (V)‘] :
Issued by Israel
Issued on 26 Dec, 1978
Designer : The stamps were designed by Z. Narkiss, Tel Aviv
Type : Stamp, Mint Condition
Colour : Multi colour
Denomination : 2 Pound
Name : Simon (Simcha) Maximilian Südfeld
Born on 29 Jul, 1849 at Pest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now in Budapest, Hungary]
Died on 23 Jan, 1923 at Paris, France
About :
- One of the most colourful fighters among the early Zionist leadership – author, orator, neurologist, journalist and philosopher – Max Nordau was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1849, under the name Simon Südfeld. He graduated in medicine and served for six years as an Austrian military surgeon, but was attracted to journalism and literature. He was a regular contributor to important newspapers in German and in 1880 settled in Paris. After having published an average of a book a year and several plays, he achieved international fame with his “Conventional Lies of Civilized Mankind”, which aroused the wrath of the autocratic regimes of Europe.
- Nordau attended the court-martial of Dreyfus and his daily reports on the trial created much excitement. He was almost the first fellow-newspaperman who responded to Herzl’s call for a Jewish State and became the spokesman of Jewish suffering at the Zionist Congresses. He served as vice-chairman during Herzl’s lifetime, but later declined the leadership of the movement, loyally supporting Herzl’s heir, David Wolfsohn. During World War I he lived in exile in Spain, almost out of touch with the mainstream of Zionist activities. Though the end of the war found him broken in spirit and resources, he served as honorary chairman at the 12th Zionist Congress. He pleaded for Herzl’s ideas uncompromisingly and called for immediate mass immigration. Nordau died in Paris in 1923 and his remains were buried in Tel Aviv.
- S. SH.
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