Czech-Israeli Writer Viktor Fischl in the Context of World Events During the 20th Century
Viktor Fischl (Avigdor Dagan, 1912–2006) was an important writer, a journalist and a diplomat of Czech Jewish origin. During the inter-war period, he wrote about the topic of Judaism, during the WWII he helped to defend Czechoslovak interests in the service of Czechoslovak government-in-exile. In hi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Trieste, University of Ljubljana, University of Konstanz
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Slavica TerGestina |
| Online Access: | https://www.openstarts.units.it/bitstream/10077/20389/1/SlavicaTer_19_2017_2_Halamova.pdf |
| Summary: | Viktor Fischl (Avigdor Dagan, 1912–2006) was an important writer, a journalist and a diplomat of Czech Jewish origin. During the inter-war period, he wrote about the topic of Judaism, during the WWII he helped to defend Czechoslovak interests in the service of Czechoslovak government-in-exile. In his second home Israel, holocaust and parallels between the Nazis and the Communist totality in Soviet satellites became his topic. He was active in public affairs as a writer and as a diplomat (he was Israeli chargé d´affaires in Japan, in Burma and ambassador in Poland, Yugoslavia, Norway and Austria). This study searches for the sources of Fischl´s life philosophy and describes the formation of his cultural and national identity while using his texts and analyzing the Czech cultural discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1592-0291 2283-5482 |