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Voyage into savage Europe : a declining civilization / Avigdor Hameiri ; translated and edited by Peter C. Appelbaum.
LIBRA DAW1014 .H3613 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hameiri, Avigdor, 1890-1970, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Masaʻ be-Eropah ha-peraʼit. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Jews.
- Europe, Central--Description and travel.
- Europe, Central.
- Central Europe.
- Jews--Europe, Central.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--20th century.
- Travel.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 221 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Drama
- A Scattering of Exiles
- A Telegram on Credit
- The Dawn of Europe
- The Viennese Smile
- The Eye and the Ear
- The Prisoner
- Our Two Faces
- With the Almighty's Help
- The Dust of Criticism
- Sicarii
- Journey to Ruin
- Blonde is Beautiful
- The Costume Party
- A Hebrew Novel
- Frozen in Time
- The Baptists
- Mosaic
- My Two Souls
- The Living Scarecrow
- The Messiah's Entreaty
- My Birthplace's Agony
- The Holy Operetta
- Canaanite Servant
- Spain the Healer
- Charoset
- The Legend of Alliance
- The Rear Echelon
- The Beacon of Light
- The Intoxicating Darkness
- Conscience
- Homeward Bound.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1938 as "Masa Be'eropa Haperait. Rishmei Derech Anakroniyim" (Journey to Savage Europe. Anachronistic Travel Notes).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hameiri, Avigdor, 1890-1970. Voyage into savage Europe
- ISBN:
- 9781644693360
- 1644693364
- 9781644693377
- 1644693372
- OCLC:
- 1151516216
- Publisher Number:
- 99985125807
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