Voyage into Savage Europe : A Declining Civilization Hardback
by Avigdor Hameiri
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In this unique memoir, now in English for the first time, Israel's first Poet Laureate Avigdor Hameiri details a trip to Europe in 1930 from the perspective of a Hungarian Jew who had served in the Habsburg Army.
Upon visiting Austria, Hungary, Romania (including parts of ceded Hungarian Transylvania), and Czechoslovakia (including his Carpatho-Ruthenian homeland), he sees Europe in flux on the brink of an unknown disaster.
Austria and Hungary are full of youth whose philosophy is "eat, drink and be merry; tomorrow we die." There is fear of Bolshevism from without, but the unfelt danger is German Fascism.
Jews (especially in Hungary) are assimilated but cannot escape from their Jewishness: some are Zionists.
Romania is corrupt and antisemitic. In Carpatho-Ruthenia, Hameiri has two premonitions warning him to return to Israel, a prediction of the destruction soon to befall Europe.
Hameiri also gives accounts of the artistic and cultural scenes of 1930s Europe, as well as the world of Carpatho-Ruthenian Hasidism, which was soon to be destroyed by the Holocaust.
From the growing danger and confusion surrounding inter-war Europe, in prose at once compassionate and bitingly sarcastic, comes a sweeping account of Jewish life in 1930 from one of Israel's prolific writers.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2020
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- ISBN:9781644693360
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:254 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781644693360
