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Max Nordau
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Hungarian Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic (1849–1923)

Also known as: Max Simon Nordau, Muskeljude, Nordau, Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Макс Нордау, ماكس نورداو

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Known works

  • Conventional lies of our civilization
  • Entartung (1893)
  • Die conventionellen Lügen der Kulturmenschheit
  • Dégénérescence
  • Los grandes del arte español (1900)