Zsuzsanna Ozsváth is a Hungarian author and translator of Jewish descent. After moving to the United States, she documented her experience as a
holocaust survivor
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators before and during World War II ...
and translated several works of poetry and literature, mainly those of Hungarian and German authors. In 2003 she was named the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at the
University of Texas, Dallas
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a Public university, public research university in Richardson, Texas, United States. It is the northernmost institution of the University of Texas System. It was initially founded in 1961 ...
.
Education
A classical pianist, Ozsváth was awarded a concert diploma from the State Academy of Music at Hamburg in 1961. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in German Language and Literature from The University of Texas at Austin in 1968.
Career
Ozsváth joined the University of Texas at Dallas as a lecturer in 1976, initially teaching 19th- and 20th-century literature and history classes. Shortly thereafter, she began teaching courses about the Holocaust.
She spearheaded the founding of the Holocaust Studies Program at the University of Texas at Dallas in 1986. In 2003, she was appointed to the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies.
Ozsváth retired in 2020.
Selected publications
* Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti (1992)
* The Iron–Blue Vault: Attila József, Selected Poems (1999)
* Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklós Radnóti (2000)
* When the Danube Ran Red (2010)
* My Journey Home: Life After the Holocaust (2019)
* The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe (2019)
* Faust, Part One (2021)
* Light among the Shade: Eight–Hundred–Years of Hungarian Poetry (2022)
Honors and award
Ozsváth received a
Fulbright Award
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...
(1990-1991). She was a co-recipient of the Milán Füst Prize for her translation of
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti (born ''Miklós Glatter'', surname variants: ''Radnói'', ''Radnóczi''; 5 May 1909 – 4 or 9 November 1944) was a Hungarian poet, an outstanding representative of modern Hungarian lyric poetry as well as a certified secondary ...
's poems.
Personal life
In 1950, she married Dr. Istvan “Pista” Ozsváth (1928-2013). In 1957 they immigrated to Hamburg, Germany and later in 1962 they moved to the United States, where he had been offered a position as a mathematics professor at The University of Texas in Austin.
References
External links
Testimony at the World Holocaust Remembrance Center July 1985
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Living people
University of Texas at Austin alumni
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Holocaust studies
Women historians