{"id":2011,"date":"2021-04-05T13:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museum.jewishtimisoara.ro\/?post_type=project&p=2011"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:29:31","slug":"rodion-markovits","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/museum.jewishtimisoara.ro\/en\/project\/rodion-markovits\/","title":{"rendered":"Markovits Rodion"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=”Markovits Rodion (Markovits Jakab) ” subhead=”15 iulie 1884, Kisg\u00e9rce, Monarhia Austro-Ungar\u0103 \u2013 27 august 1948, Timi\u015foara, Rom\u00e2nia” text_orientation=”center” header_scroll_down=”on” scroll_down_icon_size=”35px” _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_line_height=”1.8em” content_font=”||||||||” content_font_size=”18px” content_line_height=”2em”]

Hungarian writer and journalist<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”80%” custom_padding=”10px||10px||true|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default” link_font=”||||on||||” link_text_color=”#000000″ link_font_size=”17px” link_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” link_text_color__hover=”#0A4DA3″]

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He was born in Kisg\u00e9rce. Reb Jakov, his grandfather, settled in the village of Gher\u021ba Mic\u0103 and married the daughter of the only Jewish family in the settlement. J\u00f3zsef Markovits, his father, studied in an outing and also acquired knowledge of general culture. Being the richest Jew in the village and a connoisseur of the book, he read from the Torah of the Sabbath and, at one point, became the president of the Orthodox Jewish community in the village of Tur\u021b. Among the relatives of the Markovits family were several rabbis. The life and creation of Jakab Rodion (adopted his first name from Rodion Raskolnikov, the hero of the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky) were strongly influenced by three fundamental elements: the native village with its geographical and ethnographic landscape; his life experience in Russian captivity with unimaginable difficulties and twists; attachment to Jewish tradition and religion with its essential components - respect for the book, rational spirit, kindness and humor. (s. J\u00e1nos Szekerny\u00e9s)<\/p>
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He attended high school in Satu Mare and studied law in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u015f and Budapest. During his studies he published articles and short stories. In January 1915 he enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army and was taken prisoner in June 1916 in Russia. He spent seven years in Siberia, where he worked very hard in Krasnoyarsk. During this period he wrote Szib\u00e9riai \u00dajs\u00e1g, the Hungarian-language publication of prisoners in Krasnaia Recika.<\/p>\n

In 1921, Rodion Markovits settled in Satu Mare, practicing law and publishing in the interwar Hungarian press: Szamos and Keleti \u00dajs\u00e1g. In 1926 he published in the Keleti \u00dajs\u00e1g newspaper in Cluj an advertisement inviting former prisoners in Russia to tell their stories. He used their testimonies in writing the volume Siberian Garrison, subtitled \"collective novel-report\", which appeared as a pamphlet in Keleti \u00dajs\u00e1g between April and August 1927. In 1928 it was published in two volumes. In two years it has been translated in 14 countries and has become an international bestseller. There has been much discussion about the categorization of the work - a documentary novel or a collective report - because it is a mixture of fiction, diary and historical document. Its literary value has been challenged by some critics who have blamed it for the unilaterality of the story, the careless style, the confusing composition. However, the book was and remains a fascinating expression of a shocking war experience.<\/p>
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In the novel S\u00e1nta farsang, 1933 (translated into Romanian: C\u00e2\u015flegi \u00eentr-un picior) we find memories from the childhood spent in the village, and in the volume of short stories Reb Ancsli \u00e9s m\u00e1s avasi zsid\u00f3kr\u00f3l sz\u00f3l\u00f3 sz\u00e9phist\u00f3ri\u00e1k, 1941 (Reb Ancili and other stories about Jews , translated into Romanian in 2014), a spirit and style very close to Yiddish literature.<\/p>\n

Like other writers of his generation, e.g. Malraux, Shaw, Panait Istrati, Andr\u00e9 Gide, Markovits had leftist, communist views. In Timi\u015foara he was in a group of left-wing intellectuals such as the poet Endre K\u00e1roly, the poet and writer Robert Reiter (pseudonym of Franz Liebhard) or the artist Julius Podlipnyi.<\/p>\n

Rodion Markovits continued to publish articles in Temesv\u00e1ri Hirlap in the post-war years, in Timi\u015foara, and after the war, in Szabad Sz\u00f3 and other publications. For several years, Markovits was the president of the Association of Hungarian Language Writers in Banat.<\/p>
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He died suddenly, in his sleep, on August 27, 1948 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Timi\u015foara. <\/span><\/p>\n

Forgotten for about 15 years after his death, the attention of publishers turned, sporadically, to the work of Rodion Markovits. In 1965 a new edition of the book Siberian Garrison appeared, and in 1970 a volume with his journalistic works, edited by J\u00e1nos Szekerny\u00e9s. After the 1989 Revolution, interest revived. The garrison from Siberia was republished in Dacia Publishing House, his work was included in a commemorative anthology of writers from Satu Mare County, his stories Reb Ancsil ... were translated into Romanian and published in a bilingual edition. The family home of the writer from Gher\u021ba Mic\u0103 became the Rodion Markovits Memorial House.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” width=”80%” max_width=”80%” module_alignment=”center”]

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