Voyage into Savage Europe: A Declining Civilization
Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, [2020]
Online
Monographie, Elektronische Ressource
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
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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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Voyage into Savage Europe: A Declining Civilization
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Avigdor Hameiri |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hameiri, Avigdor ; Appelbaum, Peter C. |
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Veröffentlichung: | Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, [2020] |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
ISBN: | 9781644693384 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781644693384 |
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