!!!Zweig, Max

b. Prostějov, Czech Republic (then Prossnitz), June 22, 1892, 
d. Jerusalem (Israel), Jan. 5, 1992, dramatist. Worked as free-lance 
writer in Berlin from 1920; emigrated to Palestine in 1938; wrote 
numerous dramas on religious, historical and contemporary issues based 
on classical and idealistic principles.

!Works
Dramas: Ragen, 1925; Die Marranen, 1938; Die Dt. 
Bartholomaeusnacht, 1940; Ghetto Warschau, 1947; Saul. Jerusalem, 
1951; Die Entscheidung des Lorenzo Moreno, 1965. - Autobiography: 
Lebenserinnerungen, 1987. - Editions: Der Generalsekretaer und andere 
Dramen, ed. by E. Benyoetz, 1979; Die Liebe in uns vergroessern. 3 
Schauspiele, ed. by K. Becsi, 1984; Werke in Einzelbaenden, ed. by 
E. Reichmann, 5 vols., 1997-2000.

!Literature
N. Fuerst, Das Dramenwerk M. Z., 1986; 
E. Reichmann (ed.), M. Z. Kritische Betrachtungen, 1995.



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