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Maurice Brodzky Maurice Brodzky i(A90094 works by)
Born: Established: 25 Nov 1847
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Poland,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1919 New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1871
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1 6 y separately published work icon Table Talk Maurice Brodzky (editor), 1885 Melbourne : 1885-1939 Z1163368 1885 periodical (215 issues) General interest articles, serials, short fiction, poetry, theatre and concert reviews.
1 Ben Israel : An Autobiography Maurice Brodzky , 1878 series - author autobiography The German Jewish narrator's proem introduces his doubts about including material likely to shock readers in his autobiography but his editor's assurances convince him that he should. Through a photographic memory he recalls his life from his birth, his father's Talmudic prediction that he would be very good or very bad, and his circumcision. His conviction that the education of children is very important seems to stem from his father's continual experimentation on him from his first weeks of life, and his taxing education in Hebrew and Rabbinical studies as well as normal schooling to which he objected. After his father's death and mother's remarriage he finished his college degree and studied philosophy in Paris. While translating manuscripts for a professor he meets a German doctor Dr. Hertz who asks his opinion of the Kaballah and its relation to Freemasonry and introduces him to his daughter who he falls in love with. He recounts the behaviour of the Paris mobs in 1870 on hearing news of the Franco-Prussian war and his own flight across country to try and return to Germany, including his arrest Prussian spy. With Dr Hertz's affidavit he is released but he has to join the French army to avoid suspicion - choosing to go to Algiers. (PB)
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