{"product_id":"voyage-into-savage-europe-a-declining-civilization-9781644693377","title":"Voyage into Savage Europe: A Declining","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslator's Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher's Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Drama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. A Scattering of Exiles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. A Telegram on Credit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. The Dawn of Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. The Viennese Smile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The Eye and the Ear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. The Prisoner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Our Two Faces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. With the Almighty's Help\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. The Dust of Criticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Sicarii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Journey to Ruin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Blonde is Beautiful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. The Costume Party\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. A Hebrew Novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. Frozen in Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. The Baptists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Mosaic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19. My Two Souls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20. The Living Scarecrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21. The Messiah's Entreaty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22. My Birthplace's Agony\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23. The Holy Operetta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24. The Canaanite Servant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25. Spain the Healer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 26. Charoset\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 27. The Legend of Alliance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 28. The Rear Echelon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 29. The Beacon of Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 30. The Intoxicating Darkness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 31. Conscience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 32. Homeward Bound\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359907119447,"sku":"9781644693377","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644693377.jpg?v=1754126078","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/voyage-into-savage-europe-a-declining-civilization-9781644693377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}