Hameiri Avigdor
Hameiri Avigdor - Voyage Into Savage Europe A Declining Civilization - Hardcover
Hameiri Avigdor - Voyage Into Savage Europe A Declining Civilization - Hardcover
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Description: From the translator of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth winner of the 2019 TLS - Risa Domb/ Porjes Prize 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.
Title: Voyage Into Savage Europe A Declining Civilization
Author(s): Hameiri Avigdor
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Barcode: 9781644693360
Pages: 254 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/22/2020
Category: Jewish Studies
Description: From the translator of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth winner of the 2019 TLS - Risa Domb/ Porjes Prize 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.
Title: Voyage Into Savage Europe A Declining Civilization
Author(s): Hameiri Avigdor
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Barcode: 9781644693360
Pages: 254 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/22/2020
Category: Jewish Studies
