{"product_id":"voyage-into-savage-europe","title":"Voyage into Savage Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the translator of Avigdor Hameiri's \u003cem\u003eHell on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2019 TLS-Risa Domb\/Porjes Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\" \u003cspan\u003eThere 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHameiri 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57484263522677,"sku":"9781644693377","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644693377.jpg?v=1786266316","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/voyage-into-savage-europe","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}