Screen LibraryOn the eve : the Jews of Europe before the Second World War /
Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as...
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Simon & Schuster,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | ©2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack. |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 552 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-520) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781416594277 (hardcover) : 1416594272 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | DS135 |
| CLC: | K500.8 |
| Call Number: | K500.8/W322 |
| 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. |