Voyage into Savage Europe : : A Declining Civilization / / Avigdor Hameiri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Hameiri, Avigdor,
• MitwirkendeR: Appelbaum, Peter C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Map --; 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. Blond 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 --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644693384; 9783110688207; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644693384?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Avigdor Hameiri.

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.