How to Pronounce Dezső Kanizsai
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Jan 27, 1886 Cífer, Trnava Region, Slovakia Died on 27 Nov 1981 (aged 95)
Hungarian teacher of deaf children
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About Dezs Kanizsai
- Dezso Kanizsai (27 January 1886 in Cífer – 27 November 1981 in Budapest) was a Hungarian audiologist and educator of the deaf children.
- Kanizsai taught at the Jewish Institute for the Deaf in Budapest starting in 1907.
- During the interwar period he developed and publicized his own teaching program.
- His school on Mexico Square became a social club for the deaf Jews of Budapest. After the German military occupation of Hungary in March 1944 Kaniszai managed to keep his class together until the end of the war.
- "Nearly all the survivors [among the deaf Hungarian Jews] had attended the Jewish school for deaf children on Mexico Square." After the war Kaniszai returned to academic and teaching duties and authored the definitive Hungarian-language textbooks on education for the deaf.
