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 | IntroductionMaximillian Fenyő ( Hun. Fenyő Miksa ) is obviously not a name that most people outside of Hungary would know about. After all; following the Russian Soviet domination of much of Central and Eastern Europe many great writers, artists and intellectuals, who had made their mark in the first half of the 20th Century, were overlooked or completely forgotten by the rest of Europe. In the aftermath of WW2 the rest of the World's attention was in trying to make sense of the horrors of The Holocaust and the many other atrocities of the war. And so it is that a great Jewish Hungarian intellectual, along with dozens more, was not given the kind of attention and respect that would otherwise have been the case. Max Fenyő was a most remarkable man; and this Virtual Museum is here to tell the English-speaking World about a man whose writing and publishing efforts significantly influenced the great Nobel-Prize-winning Hungarian Scientists; including the god-father of computerisation, and the discoverer of Vitamin C! Biographical Highlights1908 Max ( Hun. "Miksha" ) Fenyő, along with fellow writers/editors Erno Osvat and Hugo Ignotus, founds the NYUGAT periodical, which is considered the most important Hungarian Literary, Arts, and Social Review ever! The NYUGAT's impact on Hungarian intellectual life continues till this day. 1933 Max Fenyő, as an elected Independent Member of The Parliament, writes and published a book in which he explains the dangerous origins of the Nazi Party and Hitler, and warns Hungary not to join an alliance with Nazi Germany! And for this Max is placed on Hitler's personal Most Wanted Dead or Alive list! He and his immediate family barely survived The Holocaust in hiding. |
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NOTE: All the Photographic Images and Graphics, and all the specific writings found here in this website are the Intellectually Protected Property of Jean-Pierre A. Fenyo, the Curator, and grandson of Max Fenyo. This website is sustained courtesy of the Fenyo Family Trust. REGARDING my Grandfather's Religious views ( or lack thereof ): He was born into a Jewish family. His mother was Jewish: therefor he was always Jewish, though he 'converted' to Catholicism for reasons that are very complicated and cannot be explained in a few paragraphs. Suffice it to say: he was Agnostic, and liked the best of Jewish traditions and Catholic traditions. Based on his Autobiographical writings, and my own sense of him when he was still alive ( I was 8 when he departed ), I can say with great confidence that he was Spiritually and Culturally Jewish at heart!
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