Thanks for the info...I never knew that "BAMBI" was written by a European. I've never read the book, nor had it read to me. Yes, I did see the cartoon as a child and also as an adult.
Interestingly, Salten's original name was was the very Germanic Siegfried Saltzmann (very Austrian, actually, because "Saltzmann" appears to have been one of the most common names for Austrian Jews). But it obviously, the entire name sounded too Jewish in the anti-Semitic climate of the time(Siegfried, like Julius and Isidore, had become "Jewish by association" in Europe, and while Saltzmann can hardly be considered an exclusively Jewish name, like Goldbach and Rosenberg it was one of those names which automatically suggested Jewishness to the anti-Semite's ears) So he changed the name the supposedley inoffensive Salten..which sounds a lot like the Hungarian Zoltan, when given the proper German pronounciation, and might have also riled anti-Hungarian bigots in Vienna.