Max Nordau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Max Simon Nordau was born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in 1849 in the Pest division of Budapest. He was registered in the synagogue as Simcha Meir and known in his family as Simi. His father, Gabriel Südfeld, was a private tutor and had been a rabbi in Posen, Prussia. A widower with four children, he married Rosalie Sarah, née Nelkin, of Riga, who became the mother of Max and his sister Charlotte. Raised in poverty, young Max enrolled in the Pest German-language Jewish elementary school in 1854, the Catholic Gymnasium in 1859, and the Calvinist Gymnasium in 1863. In...
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