UID:
almafu_9959761052502883
Format:
1 online resource (254 p.)
ISBN:
9781644693384
Content:
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.
Note:
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
,
In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781644693384
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644693384
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644693384
Bookmarklink