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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published in 1938 as "Masa Be'eropa Haperait. Rishmei Derech Anakroniyim" (Journey to Savage Europe. Anachronistic Travel Notes). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Central.
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Jews. |
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Central Europe. |
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Europe, Central -- Description and travel.
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Europe, Central -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary. |
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Travel. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Appelbaum, Peter C., translator, editor.
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| Added Title |
Masaʻ be-Eropah ha-peraʼit. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020018459
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| Translation Of: |
Translation of: Hameiri, Avigdor, 1890-1970. Masaʻ be-Eropah ha-peraʼit Tel-Aviv : Vaʻad ha-Yovel, 1938 (DLC) 57056715 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hameiri, Avigdor, 1890-1970. Voyage into savage Europe [Brookline, MA] : [Academic Studies Press], [2020] 9781644693360 (DLC) 2020009946 |
| ISBN |
9781644693384 electronic book |
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1644693380 electronic book |
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9781644693391 (electronic book) |
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1644693399 (electronic book) |
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9781644693360 hardcover |
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9781644693377 paperback |
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