On the eve the jews of europe before the second world war
Presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Ranging from Vilna ('Jerusalem of Lithuania') to Salonica with its Judeo-Espanol-speaking stevedores and singers, and beyond, this book focuses squarely on the Jews themselv...
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London, UK
Simon & Schuster,Inc.
2012
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Table of Contents:
- The melting glacier
- The Christian problem
- Grandees and grandstanders
- From shtetl to shtot
- New Jerusalems
- Holy men
- Unholy women
- Luftmenshn
- Non-Jewish Jews
- The linguistic matrix
- The power of the word
- A people of many books
- Masques of modernity
- Youth
- Utopias
- In the cage, trying to get out
- Camping
- On the eve
- Existential crisis
- Epilogue: Fates known and unknown