ABSTRACT
Franz Werfel's saga, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, tells the story of the inhabitants of the Armenian villages at the foot of Musa Dagh in the Cilicia district during the First World War. The concept of an 'Armenian fate' as Franz Werfel perceives it, as he repeats again and again, in his universal, almost metaphysical view, is unjustified. Moshe Beilinson transformed the concept of an "Armenian fate," which he felt was unjustified, into a concept of the "fate of Israel." The Turk killed the Armenians, a rival people with whom they wanted to settle accounts-more than a million people. The Armenian people found someone to share in their suffering, to mourn for them, to redeem their blood, in the form of an author of Jewish descent, Werfel the Jew, whose people, Werfel's people, have no argument with that renegade nation of criminals.
