Teodoro Schwartz
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Teodoro Ŝvarc (or Schwartz or Soros Tivadar; 1894-1968) was a Hungarian Jewish doctor, lawyer, author and editor. He was the father of George Soros.
He fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping. He founded the Esperanto literary magazine in Literatura Mondo (Literary World) in 1922 and edited it until 1924. He wrote the short novel Modernaj Robinzonoj (Modern Robinsons) (1923), and Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto (Masquerade (dance) around death), published 1965, an autobiographical novel about his experience during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary. Maskerado has been translated into English, Russian, German and Turkish. He also wrote under the name Teo Melas.
External links
- Review of Modern Robinsons (http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Recenzoj/robinzonoj.html)
- New Chorus through Soros ? (http://www.his.com/~wormsong/esw/esw7.html)