Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Drama -- A Scattering of Exiles -- A Telegram on Credit -- The Dawn of Europe -- The Viennese Smile -- The Eye and the Ear -- The Prisoner -- Our Two Faces -- With the Almighty's Help -- The Dust of Criticism -- Sicarii -- Journey to Ruin -- Blonde is Beautiful -- The Costume Party -- A Hebrew Novel -- Frozen in Time -- The Baptists -- Mosaic -- My Two Souls -- The Living Scarecrow -- The Messiah's Entreaty -- My Birthplace's Agony -- The Holy Operetta -- Canaanite Servant -- Spain the Healer -- Charoset -- The Legend of Alliance -- The Rear Echelon -- The Beacon of Light -- The Intoxicating Darkness -- Conscience -- Homeward Bound |
Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
Notes |
Originally published in 1938 as "Masa Be'eropa Haperait. Rishmei Derech Anakroniyim" (Journey to Savage Europe. Anachronistic Travel Notes) |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2020) |
Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Central
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HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.
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Jews
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Politics and government
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
Europe, Central -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021902
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Europe, Central -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Subject |
Central Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Appelbaum, Peter C., translator, editor
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LC no. |
2020009947 |
ISBN |
9781644693384 |
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1644693380 |
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9781644693391 |
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1644693399 |
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