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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
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. Blonde 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
