{"product_id":"voyage-into-savage-europe","title":"Voyage into Savage Europe: A Declining Civilization","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":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46221169197266,"sku":"9781644693377","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46221169230034,"sku":"9781644693360","price":167.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46221169262802,"sku":"a2f501e6-92ef-3dd9-827a-864a30de1afa","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d065d3b9-ac9b-4836-a39e-62008a7e1e8d.jpg?v=1763681042","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/voyage-into-savage-europe","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}