Tivadar Soros
Tivadar Soros | |
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Transleithania, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Hungary) | |
Died | 22 February 1968 New York, United States | (aged 74)
Allegiance | Austria-Hungary |
Service/ | Austro-Hungarian Army |
Years of service | 1914–1918 |
Known for | Esperanto magazine editor, lawyer |
Battles/wars | World War I |
Alma mater | Franz Joseph University, Kolozsvár (now Cluj) |
Spouse(s) |
Erzsébet Szücs (m. 1924) |
Children |
Tivadar Soros
He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in
He first met his wife Erzsébet when she was eleven years old during a visit to the home of her father Mor Szücs, a cousin of his own father.[4]
He studied law at the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca), in what was then Hungarian Transylvania.[4]
Soros fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping. He founded the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo (Literary World) in 1922, having learned the language from a fellow soldier during the war, and edited it until 1924.
In 1936, Soros changed the family's surname from the German-Jewish "Schwartz" to "Soros", in an attempt to protect the family from Hungary's increasing antisemitism.[5][6] Soros was said to like the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning; in Hungarian, soros means "next"; in Esperanto it means "will soar".[7][8][9]
Soros forged paperwork, giving the family's new alias, as the
Soros died of cancer in New York in 1968.
Publications
- Modernaj Robinzonoj ("Modern Robinsons") (1923), a short novel which was republished in 1999 by Esperanto publisher Bero and was translated into several languages, including English (Maskerado: Dancing Around Death London: Canongate, 2000).
- Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto ("Masquerade around death") (1965), an autobiographical novel about Soros's experience during the Nazi occupation of Budapest. It has been translated into English, French, Hungarian,[12] Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, German and Turkish.
Notes and references
- ^ The family changed its name in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros, in response to growing antisemitism with the rise of Fascism.
- ^ Soros, Tivadar (2001). Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi-occupied Hungary. New York: Arcade Publishing.
- ISBN 978-1-61145-024-8.
- ^ Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, First Vintage Books Edition, Published by Random House, New York City, Tividar and Erzebet, Chapter 1, pgs. 3–14.
- ISBN 9781559705813. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ISBN 9781557535269. Archivedfrom the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
- ISBN 9780375405853. Archivedfrom the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Bessner, Daniel (6 July 2018). "The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ Soros, George (13 July 2018). "George Soros: I'm a passionate critic of market fundamentalism – Response to Bessner". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- Wall Street Journal. Associated Press. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ISBN 963-9088-73-0.