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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.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Translator's Introduction
  • Prologue
  • Publisher's Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Drama
  • Chapter 2. A Scattering of Exiles
  • Chapter 3. A Telegram on Credit
  • Chapter 4. The Dawn of Europe
  • Chapter 5. The Viennese Smile
  • Chapter 6. The Eye and the Ear
  • Chapter 7. The Prisoner
  • Chapter 8. Our Two Faces
  • Chapter 9. With the Almighty's Help
  • Chapter 10. The Dust of Criticism
  • Chapter 11. Sicarii
  • Chapter 12. Journey to Ruin
  • Chapter 13. Blonde is Beautiful
  • Chapter 14. The Costume Party
  • Chapter 15. A Hebrew Novel
  • Chapter 16. Frozen in Time
  • Chapter 17. The Baptists
  • Chapter 18. Mosaic
  • Chapter 19. My Two Souls
  • Chapter 20. The Living Scarecrow
  • Chapter 21. The Messiah's Entreaty
  • Chapter 22. My Birthplace's Agony
  • Chapter 23. The Holy Operetta
  • Chapter 24. The Canaanite Servant
  • Chapter 25. Spain the Healer
  • Chapter 26. Charoset
  • Chapter 27. The Legend of Alliance
  • Chapter 28. The Rear Echelon
  • Chapter 29. The Beacon of Light
  • Chapter 30. The Intoxicating Darkness
  • Chapter 31. Conscience
  • Chapter 32. Homeward Bound

Voyage into Savage Europe: A Declining

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      Publisher: Academic Studies Press
      Publication Date: 08/10/2020
      ISBN13: 9781644693360, 978-1644693360
      ISBN10: 1644693364

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Translator's Introduction
      • Prologue
      • Publisher's Introduction
      • Chapter 1. Drama
      • Chapter 2. A Scattering of Exiles
      • Chapter 3. A Telegram on Credit
      • Chapter 4. The Dawn of Europe
      • Chapter 5. The Viennese Smile
      • Chapter 6. The Eye and the Ear
      • Chapter 7. The Prisoner
      • Chapter 8. Our Two Faces
      • Chapter 9. With the Almighty's Help
      • Chapter 10. The Dust of Criticism
      • Chapter 11. Sicarii
      • Chapter 12. Journey to Ruin
      • Chapter 13. Blonde is Beautiful
      • Chapter 14. The Costume Party
      • Chapter 15. A Hebrew Novel
      • Chapter 16. Frozen in Time
      • Chapter 17. The Baptists
      • Chapter 18. Mosaic
      • Chapter 19. My Two Souls
      • Chapter 20. The Living Scarecrow
      • Chapter 21. The Messiah's Entreaty
      • Chapter 22. My Birthplace's Agony
      • Chapter 23. The Holy Operetta
      • Chapter 24. The Canaanite Servant
      • Chapter 25. Spain the Healer
      • Chapter 26. Charoset
      • Chapter 27. The Legend of Alliance
      • Chapter 28. The Rear Echelon
      • Chapter 29. The Beacon of Light
      • Chapter 30. The Intoxicating Darkness
      • Chapter 31. Conscience
      • Chapter 32. Homeward Bound

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